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1GB is still a lot of memory. If anything, we've only learned to squander all available memory.
by srgpqt 7y ago
1GB is still a lot of memory. If anything, we've only learned to squander all available memory.
- vokep 7y agoThis. The basic stuff they did back then didn't magically inflate. Except, it seems from afar that thats exactly what happened. But it didn't, and it doesn't have to look like that from afar.
- derefr 7y agoGo ahead and buffer 4k video streams to disk, I dare you :) There's a reason that even modern appliance platforms like Apple/Android TV need multiple GBs of memory, and it ain't bloat.
- saagarjha 7y agoI wouldn’t be so sure.
- mehrdadn 7y agoWhat are you calling "disk" here? It's not every day that I see a machine with a disk slower than its network connection.
- tedunangst 7y agoThat might describe every rpi running off SD.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI dunno, not sure about the latest Pi models but the network performance was horrid on the earlier ones, like 20Mbits/sec tops.
- Piskvorrr 7y agoIf you're talking RPi1, perhaps. That's 2012, however...and one of the first things to get better in every further model.
- eru 7y agoAn aside: that's often true in Google's data centres. So much, that someone wrote a system to sort-of swap out memory to other machines' RAM over the network (instead of to disk, which Google doesn't do in general).
- trasz 7y agoThe irony is, on the other end the inverse is true - filesystem cache hit ratio on Netflix servers isn’t particularly high.
- hvidgaard 7y agoIf we aim high and say we need 50mbps of bitrate for 4k HDR, we still only need 6-7mb/s. So buffering 30 seconds is still less than 200mb. It is entirely possible to make a modern system that use far less than they do today. If you're gaming it's a different beast, but for normal OS and programs it's certainly bloat.
- IvyMike 7y ago> If anything, we've only learned to squander all available memory. If I've learned anything in my computer career, it is that this is an evergreen comment. I remember reading Q-Link posts from Commodore 64 users with this complaint when the wasteful C128 came out.