haha. I have 32GB of RAM in my server, and even though I run a LOT of stuff, it rarely gets past 6 or 7GB used
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if the cat was a windows 11 system he'd be so big he consumed the entire couch
I have 32 gigs and Windows 10 doesn't actually use too much RAM. Around 4 GB, but still quite a lot. Still nothing to how much free RAM I have though.
My unpopular opinion: free ram is useless ram. Go on, OS. Put evertyhing into ram. I have 64GB of it. Fill it the fuck up. I want to be able to open things blazingly fast, that's why its there. The trick is leaving enough so new things can fit without waiting for cleanup. And windows isn't bad at scaling its usage. Afaik, wIndows installation on 8GB will use less than the same installation when 16GB is available.
If you had unlimited ram, you'd be mad the OS was wasting time cleaning up behind itself.
The problem is when one of my two RAM sticks is dedicated to exclusively the microslop spyware and my games can barely run on the leftovers.
I'm playing modded Skyrim with windows, when i used to get crashes the log report almost always have the RAM usage on critical.
When installed some new mods on Linux and they start to crash i was getting "All Good" status on every single log
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Tbh if you run qbittorrent you can manually give it as much as you got in the settings.
learned that the swap -> oom way with deluge. It would go overboard if not contained.
I have 32gb of ram on my desktop and genuenly im not sure if ive ever used more than 24gb of ram
i have 64, not sure if i've used more than 12
To be fair the one time I did manage to push 24gb it was a stress test, outside normal workflow tho I generally dont use more than 8gb of ram
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Between Firefox being its usual self and the 11.5gb of VRAM and GTT kwin_wayland is currently using, 32gb does not feel excessive.
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I'm going to stack as many Arch VMs as I can inside each other, on top of my btw existing Arch.
Matryoshka Arch
(I'll just wait a few days until the new Arch iso drops and becomes stable enough)
(Edit: not babushka)
I cried today b/c although I knew my mistake, I accidentally sat upon my balls just as I was sitting down to sort through my missteps & reinstall w/ a refreshed and more educated approach. Karma was doing its thing with me today. I hope that I am paying it forward because I can’t honestly think of any hurt I may have caused to warrant such a thing upon me. Now, I don’t know why I’m crying. Probably seen enough trailers for that new E.T. Movie w/ Jared Goff.
Watch them disappear once you start a blender render
Sitting on a cool 64, over here.
Relatable
All I have is 8 gigs right now, 1 channel dead. My windows hovers are 5 gig ram to just run. Hurts.
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We're not lol, why do you think the users of other OSs envy you? It's not hard to switch.
Meanwhile Windows is in the background like I’ll just take the rest, thanks. 😭