This is on my Framework Laptop:
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 58Gi 3,3Gi 47Gi 82Mi 8,6Gi 55Gi
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Here is my Proxmox server:
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 125Gi 66Gi 33Gi 24Mi 26Gi 58Gi
Swap: 8,0Gi 0B 8,0Gi
% free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 125Gi 15Gi 90Gi 523Mi 22Gi 110Gi
Swap: 63Gi 0B 63Gi
I'll use it eventually. Just gotta let the disk cache warm up.
63GiB swap, really...?
I have enough disk space.
Plus my /tmp is a ramdisk and sometimes I compile large things in there (Firefox) so it is nice to let it be flushed out to disk if there are more important uses for that RAM than holding a file that most likely won't be read again.
I see.. but you only use 15GiB.. Or are there days you actually use up the memory?
Yes. As this is a workstation the memory use is highly variable, >95% of the time I would probably barely notice having 32GiB. But other times it is a huge performance win to have that capacity available. Sometimes I am compiling lots of stuff and 32 compilers running + ample disk cache is very important. Other times I am processing lots of data and other times I am running a few VMs.
It is a bit of a luxury. I think if I was on a tighter budget I would have gone for 64GiB. However the price difference wasn't that much and at least a handful of times I have been quite happy to have that capacity available. And worst case I just have everything sitting in disk cache after a warm up which is a small performance win on every small task.
This comment section is a goldmine
That's how I got a free netbook. The netbook had 32GB flash with windows and office occupying 27+GB. Then windows wanted to do an update - with an 8+GB file. Spot the problem. And windows can get quite annoying with updates. As the netbook could not be expanded, and attempts to redirect the update to a USB stick did not work, a newer netbook was bought, and I got the old one. Linux plus libreoffice plus a bunch of extras happily sat in 4GB...
you just need more things to run on it
i mean, some games (cough cough factorio cough cough) manage to use up about 25GB of ram on my system, so it's nice to have a buffer. now, my 64GB may be considered a bit overkill but i call it future proofing
I upgraded to 64 GB a few months ago, also thinking it would be future proof for a while. However, I entirely exhuasted it two weeks ago 😑
tf are you doing
some c++ and android coding on a few projects, plus firefox, plus the other minor stuff like translator, goldendict, ...
K8s clusters, probably.
My work takes 40 gig and I can still play Factorio while working :)
yeah probably because of all the mods i play with, and the the absolute overkill i manufacturer everything with
Ram disks!!
Am i the only one who still has no problems with 8GB? Not that I wouldn't be happy with more but i can't remember the last time I've even thought about ram usage
it's almost like the ram usage depends on the software / services you need to run /s
If your job requires you to use chrome and vscode, 8GB is usually not enough :/
I use potato PC with just 8GB of ram to work. I regularly use VSCode and docker. It still run smoothly when I use it properly. lol.
Guessing you don't run a couple docker containers to support local development;-)
At my last WFH job my daily setup was firefox, sublime text, slack (electron app), github desktop (also electron), and 3 terminals, one running a local dev server. It all ran fine.
My system gets maxed out of the 16gb regularly.
Yeah. Firefox will gladly make itself comfy in my 32Gb... It's annoying because just because 80% of RAM is "used" doesn't mean it is really.
this; every time the ublock origin absolutists insist that everyone must use Firefox or die I just wonder if they never open more than one or two tabs anyway. hell, a sufficiently complex web app running in a single tab can make FF choke
I mean I run ubo and firefox. And have hundreds of tabs open. On any system, it lags so I know the struggle.
You got it wrong actually. Firefox is not really actively using all the ram. It's more like reserving it. The system does that too. When the actual used RAM gets low, Firefox releases some of this unused RAM.
Both you and @SaltyIceteaMaker are completely wrong. There is no such thing as "reserving" memory.
the rest is electron
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