Unexplainable high memory consumption under wayland

[Ramast]

First I am not 100% sure this is Gentoo but am trying my luck.


I have 16GB of RAM. If I were to play a game like minecraft with few mods (RLCraft), then it completely fills up my memory. No other app can run beside it and even then sometimes system runs out of memory and shut down plasma-shell to have enough memory for the game. (I don’t use swap)

Now if I restart and use X11, I can play that exact same game and have firefox, mozilla thunderbird & signal running and still have 5 GB free memory.

The weird thing is that memory consumption per app doesn’t really differ much between X11 and wayland session but in wayland amount of memory used by all apps don’t add up to total used memory. like there is couple of GIgabytes unaccounted for.

I use KDE plasma if this is at all relevant.

[kgdrenefort]

Hello,

that would be interesting to know what is your GPU vendor and model, what driver is installed for it, and more globally the output of :

[Ramast]

I want to note that I suffer from no lag so long as I am proving enough memory.

My GPU is AMD