Java would like to hog the couch
this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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When I think back to when I marveled that one of our office's 8Gb nightly backup tapes fit in my shirt pocket - EIGHT GIGABYTES - in my POCKET!!!...
In the future Gen ┐ will whine to their parents that their cerebral implant is only 100 terabytes.
Try realizing ten thousand mesh instances in Blender and watch that sucker eat the rest of your RAM like it's got a pebble in its shoe.
I did that on my work PC with 128 GB memory (originally built for esports shit) and it still wasn't enough.
What fucking e sports game need 100gb of ram...
It was also supposed to be an all-in-one recording/streaming computer for university events, and they had to use the budget for something. It ended up being used as a proxmox host for a while, then it was handed off to me. Now the most resource-intensive thing it runs is a Windows 11 VM that I ~~torture mercilessly~~ use for experiments. It rarely gets to 10% memory utilization.
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Once you fire up a webpage it'll just dump garbage all over the couch.
Leaves Firefox running.
OOM
Now run Mixtral
Microsoft Flight Simulator: A whole airplane on the couch
You are not Linuxing hard enough.
I spent years gaming on 8gb. Sure I could barely open bg3 but do I really need my 32 now?
install Garuda, not BionicPup
Like any cat, Linux is actually liquid and can flow over the whole sofa if it so chooses.
Floppinux anyone?
Long time ago I had a 3.5" HD floppy disk Linux with graphical user interface and ethernet and some programs on it. But 64 bit and the increased kernel size probably make this difficult nowadays.
Can't relate, just upgraded my laptop from 32GB to 64GB since VScode would keep closing due to OOM. What? Oh, no, it's not vscode's fault.....I keep like 5 Firefox windows with 30+ tabs open, like a fucking maniac..... Close them? What do you mean "close" them?
When I started hitting OOMs I just downloaded free ram.
(Modifying my zram-generator config to use 1.5x my ram size instead of the measly 4GB – uncompressed – default. Seriously it's worth looking into, though default depends on your distro)
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Only 30 tabs, you need to bump those numbers up!
I was about to reply to the same thing to another comment about 300 tabs, LOL
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Y'all need to point me towards one of those tiny Linux systems. I have an old no-longer-bricked Toshiba Satellite that somebody gave me and I got it to boot again, so I slapped Mint on it to see how I liked it since I've never messed with that distro before. The only problem is this sucker is a dog, it's only got 2 gigs of RAM and a pokey 5400 RPM platter drive in it. The thing sits there and thrashes swap constantly even when it's doing nothing, and when Mint is creating one of its automated system image rollback things it's completely unusable. I'm surprised the laptop platters don't escape their casing and bore into the Earth like a drill bit.
I found that it will... eventually... load and run the latest FreeCAD build and once it's going it's actually not bad (awful screen resolution and single touch only trackpad notwithstanding). But getting there when taken altogether takes about 20 minutes...
More than enough for MX Linux with Xfce. But it's not going to make your applications a whole lot faster.
If you can afford it, a SSD will significant improve your life. Also, any more memory will help.
As others said, you can disable swap.
Are you running the xfce version of Mint? It's significantly less resources.
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Antix will run on old grey boxes with mb of ram, it oughta work for you too.
I use bunsenlabs helium on my old vaio a series laptop. I use a 32 bit non pae build bc it's a pentium M that might not support pae. It uses a window manager over a desktop environment.
I'd recommend using a 32 bit distro as they tend to take up a little less ram.
Also I'm on a 4200 rpm PATA HDD. It has 2 gb of ddr ram. It's slightly too old to get ddr2 which is unfortunate.
Arch, with XFCE and the strict bare minimum. Ex : midori instead of firefox, etc. Don't dream about CAD
Fire up a couple VMs to snuggle with.
My minimal arch installation on my 128 GB RAM monster of a computer
Came here to say something similar.
My work issued me a 128gig 64 core monster of a PC, came with front and back carrying handles.
To run Ubuntu and write some scripts.
Zfs being a Maine-coon
Meanwhile the electron app you're trying to run 
The other day my laptop was sluggish as hell, checked top and turns out Discord and Orca Slicer were maxing out my cores
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you are right :d