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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Big dawg here running a supercomputer with 4 gigs of RAM. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Always see my system chilling at 5 or 6 gb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

That's why I have 16GB on my main pc. The highest I've ever seen it was 8GB while playing Alan wake 2

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i had to upgrade my pc from 6gb to 16gb a few years ago because gnome kept stealing all of my ram and then my system would lock up once it was full

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

never had issues with gnome on my laptop with 4 gbs of ddr3, actually it's pretty smooth even while running from an 8 year old 5200rpm hdd, even with all the animations and stuff enabled.
freezes a bit while loading icons in the app menu for the first time after boot but it's really usable once everything gets cached to ram.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Your experience matches mine more than op's. In fact I have a super shitty old laptop running gnome on fedora with a 32gb drive and I think 4 GB of RAM, maybe less, and it still sounds better than the experience they're claiming to have had with 6 gb ram.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

General rule of thumb with building systems - "you never know..." so better safe than sorry.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was working on an app that needed to run on windows. Between chrome and virtual box, i absolutely had to upgrade to more than 16G

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

4GB of RAM: load a model into llama.cpp

Explodes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

this is so real.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

As somebody with a System76 laptop, I'm feeling personally attacked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Spin up some VMs on that thing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

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