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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Does it kill Firefox if it tries to go over the limit? I think I tried this once and if there is a memory leak it just closes itself (which is batter than hogging the whole system, bit still)

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    No, it just limits the amount of RAM that Firefox (or whatever other application you launch with these parameters) will see.

    A few Firefox tabs may crash occasionally as a side effect. And obviously if Firefox eats up all of the 8GB it's allocated it may crash itself though usually it doesn't and tabs will crash before the browser crashes.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Thanks I understand now, I'll have to try it again

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I think Firefox only sees 8 GB and limits itself ideally. So if it goes over it just unloads unused tabs and such.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I can confirm this, the first time I tried it out I accidentally set it to 1 GB, Firefox could only see that amount of memory. Though limiting Firefox to only 1GB its a very bad idea and it can cause it to crash it's not because it's trying to go over though it's just because it ran out of memory.

    8GB is what I would consider the safe minimum for web browsing. If you said it lower you'll have performance losses. Setting it higher though will only chew up valuable System RAM by inactive tabs.