you don't need more 4GB of RAM ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )

chicken , vor einem Monat

If you ever have an interest in running local LLMs you're gonna wish you got even more

FMEEE , vor einem Monat

I actually downgraded my Laptop from 16 to 8 gig DDR3L and did not spot a difference

cupcakezealot , vor einem Monat

my tandy sensation didn't need more than 4mb of ram

AllNewTypeFace , vor einem Monat

The extra space is for two Electron apps of your choice.

lemmyvore , vor einem Monat

Let's start with one and see how it goes.

umbrella , vor einem Monat

discord and microsoft teams 😍

TrickDacy , vor einem Monat

You picked two of the crappiest apps ever.

itsralC , vor einem Monat

That's the point

Kusimulkku , vor einem Monat

Teams in browser is okay

Zachariah , vor einem Monat

Spin up some VMs on that thing!

eskuero , vor einem Monat

mount $HOME in tmpfs

https://lemmy.fromshado.ws/pictrs/image/1cd1fc9f-564a-48bb-b112-a14ea617c637.jpeg

Klaymore , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

I actually do this with NixOS impermanence lol. The things I need are symlinked from a different partition and the stuff I don't need automatically gets wiped clean.

SuperIce , vor einem Monat

I actually have my ~/.cache mounted as a tmpfs. No need to write that to disk when I have like 50GB of free RAM most of the time.

eskuero , vor einem Monat

I have considered it a few times ngl

HowManyNimons , vor einem Monat

You've clearly never lived with a cat. Your metaphor is crushed by the Kitty Expansion Theory: No piece of furniture is large enough for a cat and any other additional being.

bruhduh , vor einem Monat

Caching be like

HowManyNimons , vor einem Monat

Caching do indeed be like.

ArtieShaw , vor einem Monat

Exactly. That kitty encompasses and rules over aaaalllll that couch. Surfaces and interior volume (as soon as he discovers it). No room for anybody else. Just ask him.

Siegfried , vor einem Monat

My cat would just extend perpendicular to the length of my bed so i have enough space to decide to sit on one of the two remaining sides of the bed.

kaboom36 , vor einem Monat

The kitty expansion theory is incomplete, any piece of furniture is large enough for both a cat and an additional being provided the additional being was there first

vinyl , vor einem Monat

Always see my system chilling at 5 or 6 gb

GenderNeutralBro , vor einem Monat

Much like a cat can stretch out and somehow occupy an entire queen-sized bed, Linux will happily cache your file system as long as there is available memory.

MonkderDritte , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Note for the "unused RAM is wasted RAM" people, in the description of earlyoom:

Why is "available" memory checked as opposed to "free" memory? On a healthy Linux system, "free" memory is supposed to be close to zero, because Linux uses all available physical memory to cache disk access. These caches can be dropped any time the memory is needed for something else.

So yeah, there's a difference.

poopsmith Mod , vor einem Monat

I was running out of RAM on my 16GB system for years (just doing normal work tasks), so I finally upgraded to a new laptop with 64GB of RAM. Now I never run out of memory.

MonkderDritte , vor einem Monat

lol, you wish.

cygnus , vor einem Monat

Me on my 32GB ThinkPad that spends 99% of its time running only a browser and email client

mesamunefire , vor einem Monat

That's how mine looks like. Then docker is the fat person that takes up the rest of the couch.

the_post_of_tom_joad , vor einem Monat

I put in 64GB because I'm a piece of shit and those empty memory slots looked bad

Magister , vor einem Monat

4GB are used for GPU on my 32

$ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            28Gi       2.9Gi        21Gi        24Mi       4.1Gi        25Gi

hallettj , vor einem Monat

It's great that the system is so efficient. But things do come up. I once worked with an LSP server that was so hungry that I had to upgrade from 32 to 64gb to stop the OOM crashes. (Tbf I only ran out of memory when running the LSP server and compiler at the same time - but hey, I have work to do!) But now since I'm working in a different area I'm just way over-RAMed.