Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoA suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loopwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkA suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loopwww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoRAM’s main advantage over HDDs/SSDs is fast access times. Needing to fetch anything over the internet would make it faster to just use HDDs.
minus-squarePabloSexcrowbar@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoTheoretically, you could do whatever processing you need using the user’s CPU and RAM and then send the result back over the Internet. Not saying that’s what’s happening, of course, but it’s not completely ridiculous.
minus-squareTheRealKuni@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThat’s what distributed computing is, after all. Like Folding@Home.
RAM’s main advantage over HDDs/SSDs is fast access times.
Needing to fetch anything over the internet would make it faster to just use HDDs.
Theoretically, you could do whatever processing you need using the user’s CPU and RAM and then send the result back over the Internet. Not saying that’s what’s happening, of course, but it’s not completely ridiculous.
That’s what distributed computing is, after all. Like Folding@Home.