On Thursday, 19 January 2017 19:15:13 ACDT Per Jessen wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
On 01/19/2017 11:39 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
I'll leave aside the issue of why anyone might
need for than 4G when many of us run excellent systems in that or less.
Leaving out HPC apps, here are a few reasons - virtual hosting, databases, web- and mail-servers. Virtual hosting is probably the one real reason for 32Gb and more. Are there any desktop apps that would benefit? Photo editing?
I'm not saying that there aren't applications that justify more than 4G. I just said I'd leave that issue aside.
Sure, I'm not disagreeing with you; for plain 9-5 office work, 4Gb is more than plenty, 2Gb would suffice for most people. Even for many servers, depending on the workload.
Actually, there is one application that definitely benefits from having more RAM - virtualisation! Although I run openSuSE as my primary desktop OS, for work compatibilty purposes I also have Win2K (more as a novelty, now), Win7 and Win10 VM's that I run up from time to time. With 16GB RAM I can give the guest OS 4-8GB and still have plenty left over for the host OS, and I haven't had a swap file on this machine for over 4 years! For me, virtualisation IS a desktop app and when it comes to virtualisation, RAM is king! And, yes, I have had Win2k, WinXP, Win7 and Win 10 all running simultaneously with openSuSe still running quite happily and responsively, just to prove I could do it (and to test certain Samba networking functionality with all 4 versions of Windows clients). :) Cheers, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org