Did you climb on and play around at all?
Apps can request some of their own pages be added to the non-paged pool. Browsers are famous for doing that and holding more stuff in cache than necessary. You might try selectively shutting down any long-running apps and see if the NPP drops when one of them is terminated.
Badly buggy drivers (is there any other kind?) are another source of growing NPP. Unfortunately, a reboot is probably the only way to reset that.
I have a lot of things to do and don’t really want to do any of them.
Adulthood, I know.
Losing half of my workday every Thursday in order to ship my kid to therapy is starting to hurt. It would hurt less if I was any good at task initiation, but I’m not. Maybe I should take my work to the therapy place.
Self-care is so fucking hard when you have this much to do.
LOL I told the grandkids “let’s go for a joyride!” but they were totally uninterested. (My eight year old grandson, when he was about three, was really into “diggers”, but I guess not so much now, unless it’s in a video on YouTube.)
Directionally bored. Fiber installers are notorious for not following One Call Laws and just plow through without bothering to spot utilities that they cross. They are also usually responsible for any landscape restoration so they are trying to do it as cheaply as possible.
Firefox would be such an app – it’s an absolute pig. I don’t know why I still use it – I guess force of habit from when it was arguably one of the best browsers. When I looked just now it had spawned no less than 15 threads, and I just have two simple tabs open. Two of those threads are consuming nearly 450 MB in total. When I closed it, NPP went down, but not by much – from 111 MB to 109. When I started it again with the same tabs, it had only 6 threads, so obviously 9 of the others were unnecessary and just hanging around. NPP went up again, but only to 110. Firefox these days is a buggy, bloated piece of crap.
Use Edge. Seriously. Far better than what Google AdverToogle has done to Chrome and still Chromium-based = performant and standards compliant.
FF was the bee’s knees back in the XP & Win7 days. Not anymore.
I will double that.
I was a die-hard fan of Firefox. I was a Netscape Navigator user way back in the day, and was crushed when that browser died. (It was also an email client and could do WYSIWYG web design from right in the browser - my first web design experience was using that tool.) Many of the Netscape folks went on to form the Mozilla project, and Mozilla over time morphed into Firefox. So, I was very much a supporter, almost a zealot.
However, Firefox became a massive resource hog, especially compared to the leaner Chrome. But I refused to jump on the Chrome bandwagon. And I thought Edge was an abomination.
Then, Microsoft also decided Edge was an abomination and tore it down to the studs, making the new version based off Chromium, and essentially only kept the name. And at that point I gave it a try and loved it. Since then, I am Edge only. I haven’t used Firefox in a long time.
I’m still mistrustful of M$ browsers after the security and functionality problems of IE. I mostly use Chrome, but find Brave a good alternate. Haven’t used Firefox in years because it was hopelessly boggy and unstable last time I tried it.
Navigator WAS good. Wish it had stuck around.
Thanks for the suggestion. Recall that I’m still running Windows 7, but I found a version of Edge that will support Win 7 – on the Microsoft site, in fact! I’ll install it. I don’t think it will get any updates, but pretty much all the major browsers have stopped support for Win 7, Firefox just very recently. I’m really not bothered by the memory being used by the NPP, but I really am sick to death of Firefox and its bloat and bugginess.
ETA: When I said upthread that Firefox had “spawned no less than 15 threads” even though I just had two tabs open, obviously I meant “processes”, not threads. 15 full-fledged separate processes!
In other news, I have once more returned from grocery shopping, this time bearing not one but two tuna salad sandwiches. My clever plan was that one is for eating and the other is for sacrificing to the great Goddess Ananke, the goddess of inevitability and clumsiness. So far, however, both have made it safely to the fridge, but there is still lots of opportunity for mayhem where Ananke will get her sacrificial share off the floor. 
Oh, IE was hot garbage and that was another reason why I was so reluctant to try Edge. But it surprised me.
Microsoft Edge installed and running. Thanks, @LSLGuy. Now to play around with it and see if I can import all my Firefox bookmarks.
And now for my very own mini-mini rant.
Do you know what you get when you launder a week’s worth of white dress shirts, and a week’s worth of white undershirts, and a week’s worth of white gym socks all together with one forgotten black paper cocktail napkin?
Hint: It’s speckled. Very, very speckled. Gaaah!!! At least it’s just paper flecks, not transferred dye.
My Aunt brought up my Mom today. She said my Grandma decided to take my Mom out of her will. The kicker? What convinced her is that in the months leading up to their final rift and my grandmother cutting off contact, my Mom would go on and on and on about how worried she was about her will because she was convinced me - Spice Weasel - was going to go after her money when she died and try to take it away from her widower. She had all these ideas in her head about how I would allegedly do this. My Aunt said to my Grandma, “She’s paranoid about people doing to her all the things she would do to them,” and my Grandma was like, “Shit you’re right. She’s gonna try to fuck with you after I die, isn’t she?”
And that was that.
I think it’s weird and hilarious but also a little maddening what my mother thinks I am capable of. First of all, my Mom is not a wealthy person. I don’t give two shits about what she does with her money, alive or dead. The only time I have ever thought about her will is when she called or emailed me trying to make a thing out of it.
It really just shows how distorted her reality is, because earlier this week I was thinking about how even though we don’t have a relationship, if her husband needs help taking care of her someday I would at least send them money.
We also discussed whether my Mom was capable of killing someone and using the best of my objective powers I think it wouldn’t be out of character. We’re talking about a woman who drove a car into the side of a building, then hit reverse and drove into it again. My Aunt’s therapist keeps implying “that’s the trauma talking,” and I say, “No, honey, that’s past behavior being a good predictor of future behavior.”
On the plus side, it reminded me of what a shit parent she was and that I’m not anything like her. It’s easy for me to forget that when I’m frustrated with my son, and then feel guilty for being mad. Like in my head that’s just as bad as my Mom, and it’s objectively not as bad, it’s normal parenting frustration, and I need to remember that.
Very minor problem indeed. There was a (mercifully short) period a few months ago when my son decided to take up smoking, which he’s now abandoned as the stupid thing that it is. On one occasion he had a bunch of his laundry over so I could wash it. Seeing a pair of his pants on the floor I assumed that this was to be washed, too.
It contained a pack of cigarettes, and there is nothing more horrible to encounter in the wash than tobacco. It is sticky, gooey stuff that sticks to everything. The laundry had to be redone multiple times and both the washer and dryer meticulously cleaned. In the case of the washer, by “meticulously” I mean each and every individual drain hole in the tub scrubbed out with a brush.
In happier news, my only issue so far with the Edge browser is the stupid warning bar that tells me it’s no longer supported in Windows 7. Hah! There’s a solution for everything …
Open regedit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Create a new key “Edge”
In that key, create a DWORD called “SuppressUnsupportedOSWarning” and set it to 1
I’m getting tired of telling Facebook that I do not want braindead MAGA memes in my news feed. The latest one referred to the White House as a crack house.
Huge thunderstorms passed through northeast ohio. The water actually started seeping into the building through the front sliding door!
I like your style!
Yeah, I’m a parent too; well, a step-parent, and she lives in Germany and just turned 41. (Which I cannot fucking believe…)
I think your storm just drifted this way. Radar has it as a multi-hundred mile north to south line of orange. Should be fun!
We may have experienced the same system, although I think we got it late Wednesday afternoon. The forecast was for “a chance of showers” late in the afternoon. Sitting on the front porch as I sometimes do, I noticed the sky was ominously dark in the west but clear in the east, so who knew what would happen. What happened was that it started to rain, and then quickly picked up in intensity. Within minutes water was pouring down in what looked like solid wavy sheets, with high winds and thunder.
Watching the water slam against the patio doors, I briefly thought about the upstairs bedroom but then thought, nah, I’m pretty sure the windows are closed. They were open. Yes, the carpet near the window was soaked.