• melroy@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    2 hours ago

    This is on my Framework Laptop:

    free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            58Gi       3,3Gi        47Gi        82Mi       8,6Gi        55Gi
    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      2·
      2 hours ago

      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
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    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…

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 days ago
    % 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.

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 hours ago

        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.

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            1·
            25 minutes ago

            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.

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
    12·
    6 days ago

    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

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
      12·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        6 days ago

        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

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
          7·
          6 days ago

          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.

          • gens@programming.dev
            1·
            5 days ago

            Both you and @SaltyIceteaMaker are completely wrong. There is no such thing as “reserving” memory.

  • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world
    101·
    6 days ago

    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

    • suction@lemmy.world
      21·
      5 days ago

      it’s almost like the ram usage depends on the software / services you need to run /s

      • s4if@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        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.

      • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    True story. I remember back in the bad old days when Firefox had notorious memory leaks, so when building my latest PC, I put in 32GB. The monitor app on my desktop has only ever topped out at showing 30% of memory allocated.