On 13/11/13 06:37, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Monday, 2013-11-11 at 16:16 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
increased to only 8GB because I have 16GB on my desktop and this I know is an overkill (I don't think that I have ever seen its use go above ~3GB).
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. 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? :-) 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. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.11.2 & kernel 3.12.0-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 OC 2GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org