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Conky and Yakuake are disabled.
Dropbox and Redshift are loaded and running from startup.

Spectacle and Vivaldi are running here for screenshot, so 3G is "normal" i guess:
https://snipboard.io/QqiDmK.jpg

Always thought KDE was supposed to be almost as good now as XFCE for low resource usage.

Btw, is there a way to turn off "disk writes"?

2.6GB is normal on my computer. I personally wouldn't trust Stacer. Check your memory in Htop and you can see where all your RAM is being used. As for disk writes you can try adjusting Swapiness down to 10. Adding more RAM to your computer works too. How much RAM do you have?

For the top 20:

https://justpaste.it/7nru7

Have 8G of RAM but the laptop won't use more than 4G.

Have everything on /
No swap partition (unfamiliar at creating swapiness).

It's already set to 15 (when 15% left empty => when 6.80 GB used). No need to play with it.

Also you can check / compare the mem usage with free -mw

For the disk writes, first you have to determine what process is doing the writes, and tell us how you are monitoring those.
Chromium-based browsers, as well as Firefox, are infamous for backing up their states to disk every few seconds, which ends up writing way too much to the disk over time. You can change those settings in Firefox and the other browsers to something more sane, like every five minutes, but I'm going to leave the very easy web search for the procedure as an exercise.

MX 19 ships with that low swappiness as a default, after many suggestions that we do so.

This line suggests that you have 8 GB RAM and 8 GB swap, and the system can see all of it:
How are you determining that it can't use more than 4 GB RAM?

... So your vivaldi-bin is the involved ... try to configure it, you can use Palemoon (lighter with less kworkers process )

Not unusual. I am regularly around 3 GB with Google Chrome running. 1.8 GB with no apps running . It is no different in XFCE or KDE.

@Huckleberry Finn:
$ free -mw
total used free shared buffers cache available
Mem: 15967 1794 11738 119 85 2349 13719
Swap: 0 0 0

@Stevo:
-cause that's what the computer repair guy told me so when he only had an 8G stick to put in instead of a 4G.
-this HP will only use up to 4G of RAM he said.
-think i found info on the web too (once upon a time...)

@richb:
-so, 2.6G of RAM is okay when "nothing" is running?

Yes, but it looks like there're 2 x 8 GB sticks (or so) ..

P.S. If you like, you can: or