-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2013-11-13 at 16:11 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 13/11/13 06:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Mmm. This desktop has 8 GB, and using 3 GB of swap. But 8 is the maximum for it.
I have a suspicion that you mentioned at some stage that you are a 'believer' in sending the thing to sleep or hibernating it :-) . If you do then, naturally, you would be using more RAM.
Yes, that's right, I hibernate all my machines instead of powering off. But the ammount of ram does not matter. I have one lapto wtih 4 GB, and another, old, with half a gig. Both hibernate fine. The curious thing is that doing that frees some ram, because it forces everything into swap, which means that those things are reloaded in ram only when needed... and some things are never needed again after initialization. No, currently I'm using 3 GB of swap because I have running some very hungry applications: thunderbird, firefox with many windows, seamonkey, java...
However, I never do either, nor intend to do so with the laptop, so I consider 8GB enough for my purposes. But if I find that I am wrong then I shall install another 8GB module in it. Easy, no? :-)
When you can, yes. I don't know how, but I can never do that :-} Sometimes, by the time (year) I decide to increase the ram, it is no longer sold. Or it is so absurdly expensive that it makes sense to buy a full and new computer instead. Or if I find memory modules, they do not work in that machine. Knowing that, when I choose a new computer, I populate as much ram as I can afford to buy. I prefer a slower and cheaper CPU with as much ram as possible.
Oh, another thing which will require more RAM and that is if your video card uses RAM for itself. I believe that video cards even with 2GB onboard still use some RAM but little and not as much as those who - what is the term, 'share'? - RAM.
Yes, that's common in laptops. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKEBoAACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UxaACaAuJIcceZ84ohho11c+8tCuBe wH0AoImvL0Zh39Sgw7Do+H4b4k6JgzDC =69Hq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org