Vram on Chris Irwin /tags/vram/ Recent content in Vram on Chris Irwin Hugo -- 0.147.7 en-us Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Where is my missing RAM in Linux? Your GPU stole it! /posts/where-is-my-ram/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/where-is-my-ram/ <p>I had firefox get OOM-killed today, which sent me down a rabbit hole of investigating <em>why</em> it was killed.</p> <p>Obviously I was out of memory. But after firefox was killed, the system only went down to ~50% memory usage.</p> <p>This didn&rsquo;t turn out to be a typical page cache issue.</p>