On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:02:31 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Jim Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 00:37:10 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Ah, "scarcity". Not a really good argument IMHO. I've got one system here with 8 GB of RAM, one with 16 GB of RAM, and one with 32 GB of RAM. I run 64-bit SLE in VMs on the latter, typically about 8 at a time.
Not about scarcity at all - most of my servers have 24Gb and they run a LOT of postfix instances. A lot more in 32bit than in 64bit mode. (some servers have less and no more space for more memory, but that's hardly a reason to upgrade).
You seem to be using a different definition of "scarcity" than me.
Jim
Jim, do feel free to explain your understanding of "scarcity" (your quotes, not mine).
Resource scarcity is not having to do with a small amount of memory overall in the system, but about coding practices that minimize the amount of memory used per process. Now, while I do think that *efficient* programming is a useful and beneficial thing, counting bytes of memory used by individual processes is something that is a concern in systems of yesteryear - systems that ever byte really, seriously counts. Modern systems do not suffer from that kind of scarcity issue. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org