On 12/2/22 04:46, Felix Miata wrote:
Simon Lees composed on 2022-12-01 21:45 (UTC+1030):
Felix Miata wrote:
People with more than 8G RAM are jaded. 4-8G is all an average mortal user needs, ... I use a light weight window manager and its pretty common for my browser on its own to be above 8GB, if you end up with an electron app or two which are pretty common these days then its pretty easy to be hitting 16 already. I don't think I could have a functioning desktop with under 32GB to not be occasionally hitting issues. Having said that my machines are currently comfortably sitting at 11Gb and 13Gb running mostly general desktop workloads atm. ... Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux
I find it hard to imagine any member of the SUSE Linux development team as a member of average mortal users.
Nah, I have had laptops that are really just running a browser, mail client, irc client, Discord and a Text editor and I'd farm package building off to another machine.
I normally have hundreds of browser tabs open among 4 or more different browsers and yet it's uncommon for total RAM consumption by apps to consume more than 1/3 of my 32GB of RAM. Most RAM consumption here the vast majority of the time is in cache.
I have tended to find its certain websites that either use javascript badly or do things like embedding media poorly as a background that cause 90% of the issues. I could launch a huge number of simple websites with 16GB and be fine, but there was certain websites I needed occasionally and it would only take 1-2 of them open to grind the whole machine to a halt on a system with 32GB of ram I don't tend to have the same issue (but I don't tend to have 10 of those pages open at once). -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B