I “cheaped out” with 32 and regretted it, working with huge files in RAM.
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128 here and I capped it the other day doing an in-memory parsing, lol
16 here, because 🍎
took me a few days but I fully switched to firefox. my computer finally runs the way it should.
My washing machine uses Firefox as well
i'm an angry non orgasmic bottom
Linux and FreeBSD systems? Happy and snappy.
Work Windows system filled with crap corp security software? Open electron apps and wait for them to load.
Personal Windows system? Master of Orion, the remake.
I do wonder how many people only hate windows because their IT installed crapware that takes half the CPU scanning every file move.
I watched a fascinating rust video where this guy was talking about all of the things different OSs do differently just in the rust up install process. And how one of them (I assume windows but don't recall) was way worse but it was fixed by changing how they did IO. I don't work at that lower level so it's not a thing for me, but it was interesting. (I tried to find but failed)
The file system Windows uses (NTFS) has a lot of neat features, but ends up being astronomically slow in unexpected ways for some file operations as a result.
I remember playing around with NTFS streams. They’re usually used to store random metadata about a file. The size of which doesn’t appear in the normal file size calculation/display in Windows. So you can have this 2kb text file that has an alternate stream with a zip file of the entire discography of a band stuffed into it. Longest file transfer of 2kb ever. Another gotcha, the second you copy that file to a file system that doesn’t support the alternate streams they just vanish. So all the sudden that long file transfer is super quick.
what do you need 32gb for in a linux box?
Makes your penis bigger
Chrome. Or Firefox. They don't use less ram on Linux. I can easily get Firefox to 10G.
ZFS and disk cache.
I love it for disk cache as I can then get slow drives. After the prefetch during boot (once every few months), things are just smooth.
either using it to serve a small network or the old video games
32gb of ram
yes, that was the amount I was responding to
Play some horribly unoptimized games, like the Oblivion Remaster that recommends having 32gb. Which is fucking insane.
Yeah, they defo need to work on optimization. It's an unreasonably heavy game both on cpu and gpu, runs worse than cyberpunk rt overdrive while looking worse...
Oblivion needs about stable 10GB with max settings on my System.
I wonder if they recommend 32 because 16gb is the minimum for maxed settings vanilla but they know everyone will have 2000 mods installed eventually and they are accounting for that. 🤔
The remake?
I'd be in trouble, since between ZFS and my various VMs, my system idles at ~170 GB RAM used. With only 32 I'd have to shut basically everything down.
My previous system had 64 GB, and while it wasn't great, I got by. Then one of the motherboard slots died and dropped me to 48 GB, which seriously hurt. That's when I decided to rebuild and went to 256.
Oh yay, lemmy is finally popular enough to have a nobody asked e-peen guy!
NERD!
seriously, nice rig phat stats
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Ditch Google trash. Go for alternatives. E.g., Firefox instead of Chrome.
Firefox isn't going to solve the issue of overly bloated websites.
"Two Firefox tabs at the same time, man"
May as well chop the "s" off "alternatives"
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Well, I don't think I need that much RAM, but it's a funny joke, modern browsers consume an insane amount of RAM.
not all of them, but def most. in my experience Firefox, tor, and librewolf have been pretty good in that regard
Is it Chrome or is it the web page
Maybe it’s Maybelline
My mid-range gaming PC from 2019 had 16gb, and I was looking at some new pre-builts and saw many still only have 16. Is there just not much need for more, or what? It's cheap - I might double what I've got in DDR4 for $50.
If you're doing a new PC then I'd aim for 32GB.
16GB is enough, yes, but for how much longer? It's been the norm for awhile now, which means that soon it won't be enough.
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Tbh I can already do that with 8gb
Yeah but try 3 mfer
I'd read Lemmy posts about what I'd do if I had 32GM of RAM.
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