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> (It may be time for paging out to disk to go away. It's a huge performance hit. Mobile doesn't do it. And RAM is so cheap.) The “RAM is cheap” argument is on
by AnonC 6y ago
> (It may be time for paging out to disk to go away. It's a huge performance hit. Mobile doesn't do it. And RAM is so cheap.)
The “RAM is cheap” argument is one of the reasons why we have lazy developers creating apps like MS Teams (on Windows 10) that takes a huge amount of memory (in my case, it’s about 1GB on startup without checking any chats, and I don’t even have many chats and teams in it). It somehow eventually runs out of memory, crashes and restarts. I have 8GB of RAM and allocated swap of the same amount. I’m not running many other RAM intensive applications (except for Brave browser with less than a handful of tabs).