On 09/11/2018 13.42, Liam Proven wrote:
On 09/11/2018 11:20, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I buy new but not the most recent design. This motherboard I bought with a Quad Core 2 processor, what was a large amount of ram at the time (the max the board allowed), 8 GB of DDR3. The idea was not top speed, but data movement. MSI P45 Diamond, MS-7516. Several hard disk sata ports. December 2009 and still working fine...
I still have such a box, given to me from my local Freegle group about 6y ago. Core 2 Quad Extreme. I ran it as a Hackintosh for several years, dual-booting Win8 and Linux too.
It is very noisy in use, though, and I rarely use it now.
Ah, but that is the fans. Good silent fans cost more ;-)
All my computers I had, had to be replaced because not enough memory.
I haven't really got that far, but the problem with some is that although I _could_ fit more RAM, large amounts of the old slow types of RAM that they take would cost too much.
E.g. I had an old Core 2 Duo laptop, a perfectly nice machine, but upgrading it past 4GB would cost more than it was worth. So I sold it off.
Yes, exactly. More memory for my Pentium V with 32MiB of RAM was too costly, so purchase instead new computer. Thus it died of RAM insufficiency. ;-)
Not that way. It is the memory itself which is fragmented.
Ah, yes, that is an issue, now that modern OSes stay up long enough for it to become a problem.
Of course, a reboot solves it!
Or a restart of firefox.
I know it sounds crazy, but I think the proof that the idea works is that it was introduced as standard in Mac OS X as of version 10.9 "Mavericks".
Oh.
Yeah. :-) It's quite standard now.
I have yet to get ZRAM working on openSUSE but it's fairly easy on Ubuntu.
Yes... I want my cake and eat it O:-)
The trick to send it to swap kind of works :-)
OK. I prefer an easier life, myself... ;-)
Well, yes. Did you see that the machine has 8 GiB of RAM, and there were 6 GiB of swap in use? Yes, I need more ram, which means new board, and money. That's the best solution, then easy life... But I do not want to expend that money now. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))