I'm wondering what kind of memory usage is considered normal these days. I'm using the ps_mem.py script to get the numbers. Here are the top offenders: 42.6 MiB + 768.0 KiB = 43.4 MiB transmission-gtk ...
Not every slow computer needs a hardware upgrade. Sometimes, the system lags during normal use because of unnecessary startup programs, older apps running in the background, or inefficient browser ...