ps_mem

I've honestly never given terminal memory usage a second thought. Here is the memory usage of konsole version 26.04.1 on CachyOS. Private + Shared = RAM used Program 53.3 MiB + 25.1 MiB = 78.5 MiB konsole Above is with two tabs open. Below is 18 tabs open. In the settings the memory limit is set to 192 MB (Default) Private + Shared = RAM used Program 61.9 MiB + 33.1 MiB = 95.0 MiB konsole Using ps_mem.py [1] - I suggest using this instead of ps to avoid confusion around shared memory. [1] - https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem

Just as a reference, the application I'm building features a lot things inside the final binary, that might affect ram usage, so this is not a "hello-world" example but a real application, with a SPA built-into the binary and loaded into RAM, together with a HTTP API and more (fuller list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765186). With that said, `ps_mem` (https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem) reports that the memory usage is 58.7 MiB after starting the Tauri application. If I run just the HTTP API, memory usage ends up being 19.4 MiB. So I guess in that sense, the overhead of Tauri is about ~39.3 MiB. For my use case, that's pretty acceptable. Edit: full data in case it interests people: Desktop application: Private + Shared = RAM used Program 47.0 MiB + 11.7 MiB = 58.7 MiB ditzes Just the API:

Somewhat on topic, since folks are talking about private vs shared a handy script for displaying memory usage nicely per application is ps_mem.py [1] or pip install ps_mem And there are a myriad of command incantations to massage existing data in one-liners [2] [1] - https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem/ [2] - https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/matching/memory/bWVtb...

Some lightweight browsers to try: dillo, midori, epiphany. Also, ps_mem can be good for tracking what is using up your memory: https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem

There is also ps_mem.py: https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem "A utility to accurately report the core memory usage for a program."

Note that's virtual memory. For determining real RAM usage for programs, I find https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem extremely useful