Prove to me that you need 16gb of RAM

I don't

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no one does

>>60245604
VMs

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>>60245604
I use Chrome.

2-3 VMs that require at least 2 GB each + your computer which should have at least 4 GB to run smoothly. Leaving you with a 8 to 10 GB requirement.
If those VMs are shitty Windows 10, they require 4GB at least.

I like to run two copies of runescape, one copy of second life, run 2 sandboxed browsers for different tasks, keep my browser caches in a ramdisk, use a temporary ramdisk for build files without having to worry about cleaning it out constantly, run a windows VM for testing builds on on windows without shutting it down and starting it up constantly, and an encrypted VM for pizza while still leaving a few GB free for the OS disk cache.

Editing several 7gb L-psd files in photoshop.

Using over 20 gigs is normal.

>>60245788

Also if I had a 16-thread processor instead of being an i5 corelet, I'd want even more RAM to safely run 16x concurrent heavyweight processes without wiping out my cache.

>>60245604
Hosting game servers for friends?
You probably wouldn't know about that without friends though.

>>60245604
I work with a lot of audio at the same time

playerunknowns battlegrounds uses at least 5gb

I need 32GB you ramlet

>>60245604
I work on a Node app that talks to a stack of Docker container running locally. Need a VM with a lot of RAM for that, plus plenty left over for Webpack builds.

>>60245604
VM's for class

I don't, I'm just autistic.

>>60245785
why are you running so many vms

>he doesn't play recent games

fuck off normie

The 8 I am currently using feel too little. Plus, I can afford it. Get fucked poorfag.

>>60245863
>4cucks
>friends
Wow, that was hard...

>>60245604
i have photoshop and 3d max eat away 30-50 gigs occasionally, wtf are you talking about nigger?

>>60245604
I am java developer.

>>60246908
gaming is for normies you manchild

>>60245604
I use Maya
I dont know if im shitty but I do use it

>>60246217
You need 23 GB ram to watch porn?

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>>60245604

>>60247415

Two browsers with a shit ton of tabs. One on each screen with mostly youtube crap on the right one and mostly sad panda doujins I've lazily been postponing the download of.

When I start the browsers up they usually only use up ~10GB for the first two but after about a week It ends up suing all my ram for some reason, forcing me to shut them down and restart them to free up memory.

When RAM get more reasonable again I'll try to get another pair of 8GB sticks to see If there's an end to how much ram can my browsers gobble up.

>>60245604
GTAV on max settings need more than 8GB RAM
CEMU works best at 11-13GB RAM
People that aren't poor can make use of their PC when they have more than 12GB RAM.

>>60245785
>muh vms

Nice autism

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>>60245604
make -j

>>60247973
I don't think that's true. I'd play on ultra with 8gb.

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>>60248066
>8GB.

I'm currently using 24GB as MySQL cache since I'm working on a project that uses a 30GB database.

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>>60245604
You need 64GB of RAM like me. 16GB is for plebs.

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i do geographic information processing. processes that take 20 minutes on my laptop with 8GB of ram take 1 minute on my work computer that has 32GB of ram

>>60244987
Java development running a vm and local servers requires 16gb.

Having dev env and VM with sharepoint 2016 i can tell that even 48gb is not fucking enough

>>60245604
>higher number
>autism pleased

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no vm's just caching
linuxatemyram.com

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15G        1.9G        4.2G        225M        9.0G         12G
Swap:            0B          0B          0B

>>60245604

Why? Why should I prove anything to some random guy on the web?

More than that - its my money spend. If I would want to buy and install 64gb RAM, why not? If I would want to run some RAMdrive, why not? Same for using one of my three 1tb HDDs installed to install and multiboot several different Linux distros for shit and giggles.

Because.

I.

Can.

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>>60245604

I edit videos and that usually takes about 8 gigs. although it's probably just doing that because I haven't capped it or some shit, RAM is cheap and unless you're a poorfag there's no reason to have less than 16 gigs.

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>>60245604
You don't, no one does. More than 8gb of RAM is a meme unless you want to pretend you're some autist who needs 4 VMs open at the same time.

>>60248604
2020 512 GB
My gosh, all my OS and data in ram. That will be very fast.

Because the closed beta for Quake Champions eats up 10GB before you can even access the main menu

>>60248664
There's servers even today which have literal terabytes of RAM. For general purpose desktop PCs, the last column of that chart is a config which is both ridiculously expensive and way overkill for almost anyone.

Anyway it is predicted that the line between SSD storage and RAM is going to blur in the coming years, so an OS and all locally stored data sitting entirely in what is essentially RAM isn't a much contrived prospect in the long run.

>>60248658
Who said that VMs must have gigabytes of memory allocated to them? For fucking around with some distro in a VM, often just one gigabyte per VM is going to be enough. So you could run 4 VMs with 8 GB of physical RAM and still have 4 GB for the host OS.

>>60248696
Then it must be one fattass of a botnet, or was written by complete idiots who think that they never have to free up memory again after the 3-4 GB ceiling went away with 64-bit going mainstream.

>>60248780
I give 2GB to each vm.

>need
Prove to me that you "need" a computer

64 GB here.

>>60245754
Came here to say this.

>>60246167
Back in the day, class didn't require anyone to even have their own computer. School had a lab with beige boxes with Windows 98 on it and that was it. Now "class" requires not only students having own computers, but also to install computers within their computers. Go figure.

>>60248818
Good, if you have 16 GB or more of physical RAM, need more that just one or two VMs running at a time, and don't need the physical RAM for anything else, why not.

>>60248182
this.

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>>60245604

>>60245604
Its minecraft!
fucking minecraft and 200+ mods

I run kde, chrome and firefox, while gaming.
I only have 4gb and I don't need to to swap.

>>60249172
Does your "gaming" include anything more complex than Pacman?

>>60249198
Yes. right now, I alter between xmage, zero-k and re-volt.

>>60245604
Gmod dark rp pony servers, fat kid servers.
Tf2 vsh seevers, non-volvo servers.

>>60249001
I also do ram disk stuff.

>>60248522
Triggered

>>60248967
Some ""classes"" even require students to buy Apple.

>>60245604
I have a browser with a ton of tabs, a VM running, a video playing, and code compiling.

I have 32GB of RAM, and will probably upgrade to 64.

>>60245604
I don't. 8GiB is enough at least for me

>>60249436
Amiga Workbench 1.x had a RAM disk back in the 80s, with automatic dynamic size scaling based on available RAM.

>>60251262
>20 years ago:
>"I have 32MB of RAM, and will probably upgrade to 64."
>tfw

>>60253812
>"What the hell are you ever going to need 64 MB of RAM for?"
>my mom's response

>>60253856
>four years later: XP will install on a 64MB system, but will be feature-restricted - at least 128MB are required to run the OS proper

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>>60245604
Bro, do you even multitask?

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hello RAMlets

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Must suck having only 8GB of RAM.

>>60245604
$ virt-manager

Any down side going from 2x4 to 4x4?

>>60245604
I got 32GB
>VMs running in background
>24GB almost always in use

>>60256296
None.

>>60245788
Kys yourself pedo.

>>60248967
This, I got by a cs degree using pen and paper cuz poor and doing work on the computer lab when I needed it.

>>60245604
i have shit tone of tabs opened movie on pause
torrent in the background and ram intensive game opened at the same time i could prabably survive with 8gb but why take a chance? 16gb will last me much longer and i bought my ram kit on a heavy discount 52$ (tax included) for 16gb ddr4 2133mhz 14cl.


The same way i could survive with just 4 threaded cpu but what for? I wanted the extra toom 8 threads give me and if i was assembling my pc now i would take 12 threaded ryzen.

$ free -h
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15G        9,5G        182M        846M        5,8G        4,7G
Swap:           11G        400M         11G

I guess I could make my active programs fit in 8GiB but why bother when the excess is used as disk cache making everything load faster.

>>60245604
I need 32 GB.

>>60245754
>>60248911

are you like 14 years old or are you just baiting?

>>60259393

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16400280   16031264     369016     399176     147004    6092256
-/+ buffers/cache:    9792004    6608276
Swap:     19535036    4787340   14747696

It's not like I don't have some other programs running that are fairly high in memory use, but Chromium is what uses the vast majority.

>>60259655
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.

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>>60245604
I can't

>>60259674
Yes, but Chromium is pretty much the sole reason I need 16 GB. And I'd still rather see more of my RAM used for the block cache than for Chromium.

The funny thing is that it didn't always need this much. Before I upgraded my main desktop a few years ago, I used to have 2 GB of RAM, and was actually fairly happy with that, and the reason I upgraded was much more because I wanted a faster CPU. My laptop still has 2 GB, though, and has since become completely unable to run Chromium, even with a tiny fraction of the number of tabs I used to have on my desktop. I've had to switch to using Firefox on it just because Chromium destroys it.

Bought 8GB of RAM 5 years ago
Now with W10, a shitton of browser tabs, Whatsapp, music and TeamSpeak open I finally managed to use more than 4GB

>>60259746
What? I use chromium on the shittiest chromebook with 2G memory and it barely uses 70% with ~60 tabs.

>>60245604
fucking up in matlab

>>60245604

 ~ $ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15G         11G        246M        1,4G        3,7G        2,0G

>>60260782
In that case I'd love to know how you've tuned Chromium to make each tab use about 20 MB on average, because that's what it used to do for me too long ago. Now it's more like 100 MB per tab on average.

>>60245604
rainbow tables

>>60260864
Debian 9, apt-get install chromium
14 tabs pdfs, 48 tabs doxygen, 7 tabs 4chin
sitting at 1.34G+89M on swap.

>>60245604
Fallout 4 with more than a handful of mods.

>>60245714
>>60245714
>>60245714


>>60248658
>>60248780
do you fags even know what a "job" is?

>>60260937
That's almost exactly my setup, except I'm on Debian 8. Result is >>60259655.

I have from time to time wondered if the memory usage is caused by ABP or Vimium, but it's not like Chromium is usable without those anyway.

>>60260991
It also seems to be lying about its memory usage. For instance, the Chromium process that's running this 4chan tab is reported in Chromium's task manager as using 172 MB, where as its RSS in top is 660 MB. Even if I sum the Pss fields in its /proc/$$/smaps file, I get 585 MB, still a long shot from 172 MB.

>>60245754
>>60248911
>>60259393
Chrome is terrible software. Please refrain from using it.

>>60261159
I'd like to, but I don't know a better alternative. The big problem with Firefox is that if some tab hogs the CPU, there's no way to find out what tab that is and kill it.

>>60245604
I don't but it's nice to have I guess.