>you will never use 8gb or more of ram >even 4gb is enough

Wow someone else who plays planetary annihilation. To bad the community for the game died and the game play wasn't that deep. But it was a good effort.

>>58713684
Maybe if you didn't play a shitty, unoptimized game on a shit "OS" you wouldn't have a problem with only 8GB.

>>58713765
>he likes swapping to disk when he gets close to his 8gb limit
>he thinks windows is intelligent with its pagefile where windows even swaps with 32gb of ram because of "intelligence"
>worse, he uses a mac which is atrocious at memory usage. enjoy your $200 16gb soldered upgrade kits :^)

>>58713684
>you will never use 8gb or more of ram

Someone obviously never played Rust.

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>>58714049
but i have

I frequently spike up to around 12, but mostly that's because I never close anything even if its getting ridiculous memory leaks. I could definitely make do with 8, but I dont need that kind of stress in my life

>>58713848
>mac which is atrocious at memory usage.
say what

>>58714746
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4989396?tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6031633?tstart=0
http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-is-os-x-memory-management-so-terrible.1232138/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/173863/high-memory-usage-on-macbook-pro-retina-16gb-i7-2-5ghz
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/116818/high-memory-usage-macbook-pro-retina-feeling-sluggish
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/106171/mavericks-unusually-high-ram-usage
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/196752/mac-os-x-yosemite-using-too-much-ram-why
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/169917/os-x-yosemite-system-slow-and-using-a-lot-of-ramhttp://forums.macrumors.com/threads/yosemite-uses-a-lot-of-ram.1811480/

tfw you use a 07 tower with 2gib ddr2 ram and run on a riced out linux os within ramdisk with a seperate cache drive and still can compete in fps games in steam

luckily im just another anon and i shall never know the shame.

>>58713684
Can you post that wallpaper and which DE you're using?

>>58713684
That game was such a let down.

My new PC has 4gb of ram
I feel like I could use some upgrade but since when I builded it the price for a 4gb stick went from 24 eur to 40

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>>58713684
>PA:T w/ Legion
1G of RAM per planet though is fucked though.

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>>58715080
not op but had that pape lying around

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>>58715080
2560x1440 version

and:
openbox and tint2.

>openbox theme
Arc-Dark
>gtk3 theme
Arc-Dark
>icons
Paper
>terminal font
Inconsolata
>system font
noto sans

>Xresources

#define base00 #151718
#define base01 #8ec43d
#define base02 #3B758C
#define base03 #41535B
#define base04 #43a5d5
#define base05 #d6d6d6
#define base06 #eeeeee
#define base07 #ffffff
#define base08 #Cd3f45
#define base09 #db7b55
#define base0A #e6cd69
#define base0B #9fca56
#define base0C #55dbbe
#define base0D #55b5db
#define base0E #a074c4
#define base0F #8a553f

*.foreground:   base05
*.background:   base00
*.cursorColor:  base05

*.color0:       base00
*.color1:       base08
*.color2:       base0B
*.color3:       base0A
*.color4:       base0D
*.color5:       base0E
*.color6:       base0C
*.color7:       base05

*.color8:       base03
*.color9:       base08
*.color10:      base0B
*.color11:      base0A
*.color12:      base0D
*.color13:      base0E
*.color14:      base0C
*.color15:      base07

*.color16:      base09
*.color17:      base0F
*.color18:      base01
*.color19:      base02
*.color20:      base04
*.color21: base06

*.geometry: 137x44
URxvt.font: xft:Inconsolata:size=7:antialias=true:hinting=true
!*.font: -*-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

URxvt.saveLines:4000
URxvt.scrollBar:false
URxvt.perl-ext:
URxvt.perl-ext-common:

>linux has no games

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>>58715019
htop reports what's being used. doesn't count the cache as used memory.

>pic related
as you can see, free -h and htop report virtually same amount of ram usage.

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>>58716792
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
>Disk caching makes the system much faster and more responsive! There are no downsides, except for confusing newbies. It does not take memory away from applications in any way, ever!
>If your applications want more memory, they just take back a chunk that the disk cache borrowed. Disk cache can always be given back to applications immediately! You are not low on ram!
>This is just a differing understanding of terms. Both you and Linux agree that memory taken by applications is "used", while memory that isn't used for anything is "free". But how do you count memory that is currently used for something, but still available for applications? You might consider that memory "free" or at least "available". Linux instead counts it as both "used" and "available", but not "free":
cache = free (AVAILABLE) ram. so just count cache as free ram as well.

>>58716733
Not the guy who asked but
Thanks - lovely desktop I will try to emulate it later

>>58715095
yeah it was at release. titans brought much needed improvements to the game and the mod legion brings it very close to supreme commander but it's still no supreme commander. the biggest gripe i have against it is also what i like about it. planets. i like the idea of planets and somewhat space combat but i miss the flatness of regular maps. it be nice if they kept the worlds "flat" and made it when you zoomed out you "enter" space.

>>58716733
>tint2

rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
background_color = #2d2d2d 100
border_color = #484848 0
background_color_hover = #282828 100
border_color_hover = #000000 0
background_color_pressed = #282828 100
border_color_pressed = #000000 0
# Background 2: Active task, Urgent task
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
background_color = #5294e2 85
border_color = #000000 40
background_color_hover = #ffffff 85
border_color_hover = #cccccc 40
background_color_pressed = #4e4e4e 85
border_color_pressed = #cccccc 40
# Background 3: Clock, Launcher, Launcher icon
rounded = 0
border_width = 0
border_sides = TBLR
background_color = #5294e2 85
border_color = #000000 40
background_color_hover = #ffffff 85
border_color_hover = #cccccc 40
background_color_pressed = #4e4e4e 85
border_color_pressed = #cccccc 40
# Panel
panel_items = LTSC
panel_size = 100% 28
panel_margin = 0 0
panel_padding = 0 0 4
panel_background_id = 1
wm_menu = 1
panel_dock = 0
panel_position = bottom center horizontal
panel_layer = bottom
panel_monitor = all
primary_monitor_first = 0
panel_shrink = 0
autohide = 0
autohide_show_timeout = 0
autohide_hide_timeout = 0
autohide_height = 1
strut_policy = follow_size
panel_window_name = tint2
disable_transparency = 0
mouse_effects = 0
font_shadow = 0
mouse_hover_icon_asb = 0 0 0
mouse_pressed_icon_asb = 0 0 0
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = single_desktop
taskbar_hide_if_empty = 0
taskbar_padding = 0 0 0
taskbar_background_id = 1
taskbar_active_background_id = 1
taskbar_name = 0
taskbar_hide_inactive_tasks = 0
taskbar_hide_different_monitor = 0
taskbar_always_show_all_desktop_tasks = 0
taskbar_name_padding = 0 0
taskbar_name_background_id = 1
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 1
taskbar_name_font_color = #000000 100
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #000000 100
taskbar_distribute_size = 0
taskbar_sort_order = none
task_align = left

>>58716968
cont'd

# Task
task_text = 1
task_icon = 0
task_centered = 0
urgent_nb_of_blink = 7
task_maximum_size = 200 28
task_padding = 5 0 1
task_font = Noto Sans 8
task_tooltip = 0
task_font_color = #a9a9a9 100
task_active_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_urgent_font_color = #000000 100
task_iconified_font_color = #ffffff 100
task_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_active_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_urgent_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_iconified_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_background_id = 1
task_active_background_id = 2
task_urgent_background_id = 2
task_iconified_background_id = 1
mouse_left = toggle_iconify
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = close
mouse_scroll_up = none
mouse_scroll_down = none
# System tray (notification area)
systray_padding = 3 0 3
systray_background_id = 1
systray_sort = ascending
systray_icon_size = 24
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0
systray_monitor = 1
# Launcher
launcher_padding = 3 0 3
launcher_background_id = 3
launcher_icon_background_id = 3
launcher_icon_size = 24
launcher_icon_asb = 100 0 0
launcher_icon_theme = Paper
launcher_icon_theme_override = 0
startup_notifications = 0
launcher_tooltip = 0
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/urxvt.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/pcmanfm.desktop
# Clock
time1_format = %l:%M%P
time2_format = 
time1_font = Noto Sans 9
time1_timezone = 
time2_timezone = 
clock_font_color = #ffffff 100
clock_padding = 4 0
clock_background_id = 3
clock_tooltip = 
clock_tooltip_timezone = 
clock_lclick_command = 
clock_rclick_command = 
clock_mclick_command = 
clock_uwheel_command = 
clock_dwheel_command = 
# Battery
battery_tooltip = 1
battery_low_status = 7
battery_low_cmd = 
bat1_font = sans 7
bat2_font = sans 6
battery_font_color = #ffffff 100
battery_padding = 2 0
battery_background_id = 1
battery_hide = 90
battery_lclick_command = 
battery_rclick_command = 
battery_mclick_command = 
battery_uwheel_command = 
battery_dwheel_command = 
ac_connected_cmd = 
ac_disconnected_cmd = 

>>58716973

# Tooltip
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.5
tooltip_hide_timeout = 1.2
tooltip_padding = 2 2
tooltip_background_id = 1
tooltip_font_color = #ffffff 100
tooltip_font = Noto Sans 10

i'm running tint2-git for some of the additions they made so the config might not work on the stable branch.

>why u no post on a site like pastebin?
then that would have required me to go to another site other than /gee

>>58716882
np

>>58716982
oh yeah urxvt is the xresources256 patch version for the extra colors.

>>58713684
What are you some non gaming pleb

Currently using 8.7GB and I'm not even playing any games.

Fuck off I use up to 32 GiB compiling heavy template shit

>>58713684
Even 1GB is enough for shitposting. If you want to discuss games, go to /v/.

>>58717283
That's fucking terrible. I'm using about 700MB with Firefox open. I bet you're using Windows 10.

>>58717631
I am using Windows 10 but that is beside the point.
Boinc is using up 2.5GB itself doing science.

>have 12gb of ram (down from 16 after one stick died)
>tfw constantly running out of memory
Being a computer whizz is suffering

>>58713684
I sometimes use 10 of my 12 GB

>>58713848
>windows even swaps with 32gb of ram because of "intelligence"
I really hope you have vm.swapiness set to 1 before making that claim.

>>58717906
This fampai.

Some applications will make use of swap or need it even before RAM runs out.
I ran into that problem on my OrangePi trying to run Einstein@Home on it. Without any swap available running any more than two binaries would cause them to crash even though there was still half the RAM free. Adding a swap partition fixed the issue, they use the swap even though there is ample RAM available.

All the tweaks I tried to fix it without adding swap wouldn't work. Some applications will just make use of it and some applications need it.

>>58714049
I feel like buying 1tb of RAM to piss off some poorfags. How much will it cost me... 3 grand? Brb

>>58713684
>Planetary Abortion
>being a standard for RAM usage
I'd like to remind you that this game is famous for having the user UI run in a separate process, which can crash and leave the main application GUI-less.

>>58714257
>even if its getting ridiculous memory leaks
What garbage software are you using that leaks that bad?

>>58713684
You only need 2 GiB of RAM. Some applications may demand you more, then you can just download more or stream it if you have a good internet.

Why not use a VM

>>58713765
so not filling up your ram when opening notepad means its shitty? kek

>>58720803
>his OS doesn't have notepad integrated

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>>58715076
Xp only
C2d master race

Shame the gpu i chose will not output video
I dont feel like trying to replace it

>>58717648
>doing science
wasting electricity you mean

I play games that eat up over 8gb of ram all the time my dude.

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>hurr u no need more than 4gagibites of ram
>hurrr no waste money on ram
>i know the value of a dallor
>i no can afford $15 extra for 16gagabites of rum over 8gb of ram
>use optimized software u pleb HAHAHAHAHA
>i seven year old processors because i no value of dallor
>u oppress me with your 16gb and greater ram. stop it you white male. check your privilege
/g in a nutshell

>>58713762
same

>>58723134
It's not a waste. Heat generated is transferred into my room and it is winter.

Everyone wins.

>>58723536
why would anything other than a game need so much ram anyway? I get it if it's scientific computation but for office, video, ect... what the fuck?
I only need 1G of the ram I have at most times unless something is going apeshit and needs to be killed.
Also "old hardware" is a bad excuse for bad programmers as you should make sure it works first on hardware at least 5-10 years back before you ship as that's what most have.

>>58724054
People like to rationalize bad coding in these parts

>>58724349
people like to rationalize their poorness in these parts

I am ForgedAllianceForever veteran, but did not play in a year.
I also have PA, but did not play it at all.
Is it playable?

>>58724429
I go where OpenBSD has support since that's my system of choice.

>Can literally buy 16 GB used for 40 pounds or something
Why settle for 8?

>>58713762
It died because the devs didnt support it once it became clear trying to clone TA wasnt so easy.

if someone addressed the cpu issue with Forged alliance it would be massively popular.

>>58714049
Why would I play Rust? I am not a retard.

>>58713684
When you use linux
But when you use Windows you need 32gb haha

>>58724549
No point. Blind consumerism.

$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7.7G        977M        1.3G        163M        5.4G        6.3G
Swap:          2.0G          0B        2.0G

>>58724720
I'll skip out of my morning coffee one day?

>>58713684
>OP has autism
>4GiB is enough
Pick two

                          ./+o+-       anon@EREBUS
                  yyyyy- -yyyyyy+      OS: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty [Ubuntu on Windows 10]
               ://+//////-yyyyyyo      Kernel: x86_64 Linux 3.4.0+
           .++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/`      Uptime: 0m
         .:++o:  /++++++++/:--:/-      Packages: 436
        o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/     Shell: bash
       .:+o:+o/.          `+sssoo+/    CPU: Intel Atom x5-Z8500 @ 4x 1.441GHz
  .++/+:+oo+o:`             /sssooo.   RAM: 2438MiB / 3989MiB
 /+++//+:`oo+o               /::--:.
 \+/+o+++`o++o               ++////.
  .++.o+++oo+:`             /dddhhh.
       .+.o+oo:.          `oddhhhh+
        \+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+
         `:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os:
           .o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o`
               /osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/
                   ````` +oo+++o\:
                          `oo++.
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Pamięć:       3989       2657       1332         17         33        184
-/+ buffers/cache:       2440       1549

>>58713684
stfu with your lies

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>>58724784
>14.04 trusty
>x86_64 Linux 3.4.0

>>58724720
Well, sure. If you run Linux without a GUI you probably won't use more than 8GB of RAM.

>>58725030
Xfce uses ~200MiB on cold boot.

>>58725030
what is dwm + lemonbar + dmenu?

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>>58725295