>you will never need more than 8 gigs they said >you will

They say that shit every couple of years and it doubles every couple of years. The only excuse I've heard is that programs are now more likely to be poorly optimised

>>59651791
im running wine steam and secondlife thats all

>>59651769
>Not designing your machine based on the tasks it will have to perform

You're still not using close to 16. You could've just gotten 12.

>>59651816
at this point im thinking about grabbing 16 more and going to 32

>>59651819
and then ran in single channel? i think not id rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it

>>59651769
Unused ram is wasted ram. When you have more your OS utilizes it to keep more stuff ready for quick access.

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>>59651978
>>59651769

>itt cucks that don't understand paging, caching, and leaky browsers

>>59651840
>and then ran in single channel? i think not id rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it
You just can't read htop output properly.
The 5GiB left are used for caches currently.
Depending on what you are doing, that's enough, or really not.

>>59651769
>linuks with 16gigawatts of rom
why would you do that?
linuks can only run firefox and vlc and neither uses so much memoir...

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>they never ran an oracle weblogic server, jdeveloper and osb

Good luck with your 16gb. I prefer my 32 gb

>Doing video editing in a ramdisk
>32gig plebs

>>59651991
>Swp > 0
Why ?

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8 outta 32.

2 chromium instances, 4 tabs, skype.

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>>59651769
they sure do talk shit most of the time

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>tfw you fell for the 100mb, 250mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb and 12gb of ram meme

>>59651814
>secondlife
are you a genuine autist?

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>tfw you need swap to run

dnf update

Memlets, when will they learn?

i could make do with 2gb