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Up until yesterday I would've said "Firefox" (because I hoard tabs), but it turns the real answer was "Firefox running as a Snap."
(A failed update screwed up my Snap installation, which finally gave me the kick I needed to quit procrastinating and excise it from my system once and for all. I'm running Firefox installed via apt package from Mozilla's PPA, and now -- with the same number of tabs open -- my system is hovering around 8 GB memory usage, when before it was constantly bouncing off the 32 GB redline.)
Firefox somewhat regularly crashes or freezes up my laptop (16Gb) due to memory usage and I'm running the default Arch package. I ended up installing a memory watchdog that kills processes when they start using too much. Although I do hoard tabs.
I mean there is a kernel OOM killer and a systemd service that acts well before that. Do you not use systemd?
I do use systemd. I pretty much run stock EndeavorOS