Well, I don't think I need that much RAM, but it's a funny joke, modern browsers consume an insane amount of RAM.
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I'd read Lemmy posts about what I'd do if I had 32GM of RAM.
32GB of RAM with zram configured aggressively and I still get close at times to running out of ram. 2 more years and I'll probably need to upgrade to 128GB
Why do you need so much RAM, for browsing, gaming, or is it your operating system that uses so much?
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Always wonder. I bet he got to double lots of women just from that quote alone.
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Ditch Google trash. Go for alternatives. E.g., Firefox instead of Chrome.
Are you sure that Firefox is a good alternative, given all the things they've been doing lately? And why not fork, by the way?
Also, Google is funding Mozilla, so... yeah.
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Hence the joke 🤣
May as well chop the "s" off "alternatives"
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I see I'm not the only person who decided to rewatch it after that thread
I went with 64GB on my most recent build... partially because it will eventually be retired to be a server, partially because last time i did a new build with brand new RAM, RAM prices skyrocketed (tsunami hit Taiwan IIRC, but still) immediately afterwards
I just got some parts in the mail today so I can run four tabs!
I had a desktop with 16GB, never really went over 10, got a new laptop, runing win 11, 32 GB of ram thought it was way overkill, out of the box its running12-20GB, its crazy.
As you start getting closer to your memory limit windows starts unloading things. 11 on first startup will use like 4+ gigs, but only really needs about 2. I honestly have no idea what it's doing with all that extra ram.
Disk caching isn't counted in the ram used number task manager gives you so it's not like that's what it's being used for.
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Buy 32 more and lollygag on actually installing it, if my recent actions have proven anything.
can't be turnin off the computer all willynillly now so that checks out 👍
Run our of RAM, apparently.
A few containers, a bunch of IDE windows with large work spqces and a dozen or two browser tabs add up. At least I can follow my "workflow" of doing three things at more or less the same as time
My mid-range gaming PC from 2019 had 16gb, and I was looking at some new pre-builts and saw many still only have 16. Is there just not much need for more, or what? It's cheap - I might double what I've got in DDR4 for $50.
I upgraded from 16 to 64 a few months ago, and kinda regret not going for 96 instead. Hoping these 64 last around a decade like the 16GB did previously
I have 32gb and I always suggest others to get that much as a baseline theses days. I rarely ever use anywhere close to the full 32gb, but I am often times at or near 16gb in use. The main benefit of having 32gb is in my case I'll basically never be hitting the pagefile, but if you only had 16gb you'll probably rarely max out on ram usage, but you'll probably be hitting the pagefile more often.
With the proliferation of fast SSDs and NVME drives hitting the pagefile is considerably less impactful than it use to be with spinning disks, but it's still slower than RAM.
If you're doing a new PC then I'd aim for 32GB.
16GB is enough, yes, but for how much longer? It's been the norm for awhile now, which means that soon it won't be enough.
sort of what I was thinking. I only hit the limit when I have way too many tabs open while playing an intensive game, but it's a cheap upgrade that might keep me in this PC for a few more years.
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For gaming it is unlikely you will need more than 16, at least not any time soon.
Depends on the game and what you’re doing with it. Cities: Skylines with a bunch of mods really struggles without a load of RAM. Playing Vintage Story recently, I installed a bunch of mods. Had to uninstall about half to come in under 32GB utilization.
I have a VR headset. Going from 16GB to 64GB was a huge difference in most games
I've just added 64GB to the 16 that were fitted, because beam.ng would crash loading Utah with mods. This was less time consuming than finding the probably misbehaving mod or other root cause. Mainboard is from an old Thinkstation so that RDIMMs only set me back 40EUR. Nice experience.
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Mahalo, friend.
16GB is perfectly enough currently and I expect it to stay so for the next 5+ years.
Not really. 16 gigs is like the base amount of VRAM on the new 5xxx series nvidia GPU's, and you probably want more RAM than VRAM in your rig...
With 16 GB ram I can perfectly virtualize W11 giving 8 GB ram to the guest (on a Linux host), so yes, for normal use 16 GB is perfectly fine.
Cool, danke.
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Is this a problem in Chrome? I use Firefox with just 16gb and have no problem with a couple dozen tabs.
It's an exaggeration. Browsers use a lot more RAM than one would expect, but there's not that much of a difference between each one.
Firefox suspends tabs to disk
I have firefox and like 3 windows each with 1000+ tabs.
Why?
Could you not just bookmark them
If they "hide" in a bookmark they might as well no longer exist. Of course with 4 windows and hundreds of tabs each, I end up with dupes and sometimes spend hours just culling the ones no longer needed and make no really noticeable progress. I really need to set aside a weekend and do just that, but life demands my attention. 😩
Edit - I also have 32GB of RAM running as 64GB zram and still sometimes get stuff closing because OOM when I do things like run updates while compiling a new kernel.
When it comes time to dedupe, I'll bookmark all open tabs (you can do this per window using ctrl+shift+d), open the bookmark manager and pull them from the per window folders into a single folder, then run an addon to dedupe my favorites. Much faster than trying to do anything like that by hand.
Once that's done you can select all favorites in that folder and open them all up in a new window, but at that point I already have the bookmark manager open so I usually go through them from that.
Game dev tutorials I'm only going to watch once.
You can, but there isn't much of a difference in performance.
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Cry that one of my RAM sticks failed.
Upgrade to 64GB cause 32 is not enough for my adhd
Then upgrade from 64gb to 128gb because it’s still not enough for my adhd
I've actually been considering using 128gb recently. I'm only considering this as I'm thinking about turning a server of mine into my primary desktop and it has 128gb in it already because I was using a RAM disk to generate large files in memory. I'm now done with that project and it feels silly having this powerful PC sitting here doing nothing.
A single vote cannot convey my interest in this idea.
Not even use 8GB of it.