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I really feel like a newb, only using 450MB RAM max... How do you fill up any significant portion of 12GB RAM on a workstation without doing intensive video ed

I really feel like a newb, only using 450MB RAM max... How do you fill up any significant portion of 12GB RAM on a workstation without doing intensive video editing?

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jpeterson 18y ago
Virtual machines.
- Hexstream 18y ago
  Sometimes I don't get it, is this 17-karma comment really more than 3 times as desirable than the 5-karma comment by tx?
tx 18y ago
Easy: run several VMware instances on parallel desktops ("spaces" they call it). We do that for: a) Testing cross-browser compatibility, each version of IE needs its own VM, plus Opera/FF on Linux b) Have a copy of deployment environment running, i.e. VM for an appserver and the mailserver running separately, etc. Moreover, I like to have instances of PhotoShop and Fireworks running in their own "spaces", and both of them love RAM. Basically each programmer gets his own farm of machines he can do anything with. The key is to never reboot. We don't have 12GB machines, but 4GB get eaten pretty quick.
- mpc 18y ago
  I would imagine the biggest hit is B. If you're developing search functionality or other features that work against the social graph then you'll probably need to get a large chunk of that into memory. I've worked on a couple of non-trivial web apps, but nothing even close to linked in and 4gb was a necessity at times.
  - whatusername 18y ago
    An VMWare sharts to chew through my RAM - espeially if you're trying to do something non-trivial in a couple of VM's simultaneously.
staunch 18y ago
I'll bet most really don't ever push 12GB in practice. The thing is that these days memory is ridiculously cheap (especially if you don't buy it from Apple), so going to 12GB is really just a choice to never worry about running out of memory ever again.
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siculars 18y ago
i got my octo-core macpro machine with 16gb ram (ram from http://www.macsales.com/ http://www.macsales.com/) the day i got back from apple wwdc07. developing everything you ever wanted to develop on virtual machines from one physical machine (with a few terabytes of disk space) on leopard (spaces ftw) has been one of the biggest boons of my development career. with that kind of ram you can spin up an webdev stack and mix and match pieces all day long.
gaius 18y ago
LinkedIn cache their social graph in memory, I'd imagine if you were developing on that you'd want a significant subset of it to test on http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture

I really feel like a newb, only using 450MB RAM max... How do you fill up any significant portion of 12GB RAM on a workstation without doing intensive video editing?

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jpeterson 18y ago

Virtual machines.

Hexstream 18y ago
Sometimes I don't get it, is this 17-karma comment really more than 3 times as desirable than the 5-karma comment by tx?

tx 18y ago

Easy: run several VMware instances on parallel desktops ("spaces" they call it). We do that for: a) Testing cross-browser compatibility, each version of IE needs its own VM, plus Opera/FF on Linux b) Have a copy of deployment environment running, i.e. VM for an appserver and the mailserver running separately, etc. Moreover, I like to have instances of PhotoShop and Fireworks running in their own "spaces", and both of them love RAM. Basically each programmer gets his own farm of machines he can do anything with. The key is to never reboot. We don't have 12GB machines, but 4GB get eaten pretty quick.

mpc 18y ago
I would imagine the biggest hit is B. If you're developing search functionality or other features that work against the social graph then you'll probably need to get a large chunk of that into memory. I've worked on a couple of non-trivial web apps, but nothing even close to linked in and 4gb was a necessity at times.
- whatusername 18y ago
  An VMWare sharts to chew through my RAM - espeially if you're trying to do something non-trivial in a couple of VM's simultaneously.

staunch 18y ago

I'll bet most really don't ever push 12GB in practice. The thing is that these days memory is ridiculously cheap (especially if you don't buy it from Apple), so going to 12GB is really just a choice to never worry about running out of memory ever again.

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siculars 18y ago

i got my octo-core macpro machine with 16gb ram (ram from http://www.macsales.com/ http://www.macsales.com/) the day i got back from apple wwdc07. developing everything you ever wanted to develop on virtual machines from one physical machine (with a few terabytes of disk space) on leopard (spaces ftw) has been one of the biggest boons of my development career. with that kind of ram you can spin up an webdev stack and mix and match pieces all day long.

gaius 18y ago

LinkedIn cache their social graph in memory, I'd imagine if you were developing on that you'd want a significant subset of it to test on http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture http://hurvitz.org/blog/2008/06/linkedin-architecture