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> 32GB of RAM in a workstation is perfectly ordinary. I look around me and most of new systems have 4 GB of RAM. It's possible to have 32 GB of RAM, sure, but
by wazoox 16y ago
> 32GB of RAM in a workstation is perfectly ordinary.
I look around me and most of new systems have 4 GB of RAM. It's possible to have 32 GB of RAM, sure, but it is absolutely uncommon, and blatantly unnecessary (none of my own desktop machines have more than 2 GB).
- nzmsv 16y agoI built Chromium from source the other day on my machine with 4GB of RAM. It hit swap while linking. Also, I'm running a 64-bit Linux distro. A 32-bit system I tried could not link Chromium at all. All of this is documented in the Chromium wiki, of course. But the point is, 4GB memory is their minimum requirement, and insufficient for doing a lot of work on a project like Chromium.
- kingkilr 16y agoDamn, I thought needing something like 3GB to compile PyPy on 64-bit put us in some class on unreasonable usage, interesting to see that it's apparently not so crazy for large projects.
- ximeng 16y agoLinking Chromium on Windows hit swap for me with 8GB.
- wazoox 16y agoI have 8 servers running distcc for my compilation chores, however none of them has more than 8 GB of RAM. IIRC I had no problem compiling firefox with my puny workstation. Chrome is as nasty as OOo :)
- Shorel 16y agoI think I had a 4GB hard disk ten years ago. 20GB about 2 years later.
- burgerbrain 16y agoThe machine I use as my workstation has 64GB of RAM. Of course, it also has 32 cores... It's not exactly your standard i7 workstation.