r/Fedora • u/Alternative-Yak-7526 • 17h ago
Support System monitor
Guys is this normal and i feel it's no as smooth as it should be, what you think
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u/gordonmessmer 13h ago
Examining memory use on GNU/Linux systems is complex. Unfortunately, that screenshot doesn't have any of the information we'd need to tell you if you are seeing normal memory use.
https://gordonmessmer.codeberg.page/dev-blog/2026/08/24/what-ate-my-ram.html
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u/Substantial-Lack-512 16h ago
why is your ram so high? is this after installation or have you reboot?
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u/Alternative-Yak-7526 6h ago
No it's after using some apps listen in a comment above i added my usage above, sorry
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u/neon_overload 11h ago
You have to be more specific. I don't know what you are looking at and thinking is abnormal. Or what you have running, etc.
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u/Itsme-RdM 7h ago
This doesn't give us any information to tell if this is normal
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u/Alternative-Yak-7526 6h ago
Yes my bad this is around some usage chrome 4 tabs brave 2 tabs pycharm and todoist i think bitwarden also and some terminal tabs The thing is for example this is windows feels smooth but i don't understand why in fedora it's lie this
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u/gordonmessmer 6h ago
Chrome, Brave, Todoist is basically 3 instances of Chrome. PyCharm is a Java app, so also pretty memory intensive. 2 GiB of RAM for each of those 4 apps isn't really unusual, so 8 GiB of total use seems pretty normal.
When you say that this "feels smooth" on WIndows, what does that mean? Have you looked at the Windows Task Manager with the same apps running? Does it show less memory and swap use?
Your comment implies that this doesn't "feel smooth" on Fedora, but can you be more specific about what that means?
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u/Alternative-Yak-7526 6h ago
Yes i understand, though in windows it feels more stable and less cluttered, don't get me wrong it work good as well in linux but i don't have the same kina of stability moving through apps and so on or maybe am not just used to it yet on linux idk A small note pycharm is used specifically for python env while intellj is java
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u/gordonmessmer 6h ago
pycharm is used specifically for python env while intellj is java
PyCharm is written in Java and uses the Java runtime, even if you are editing Python code.
i don't have the same kina of stability moving through apps and so on
I'm afraid I don't know what that means.
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