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I'm learning Flutter on my Windows 10 desktop. I have Android studio and the emulator open, and Firefox, Chromium and Brave opened. Total 14G of ram. My combin

I'm learning Flutter on my Windows 10 desktop. I have Android studio and the emulator open, and Firefox, Chromium and Brave opened. Total 14G of ram. My combined browser ram use is about 3G. The flutter project is barely 20 lines of code. The PC was started up about 2h ago. I'd feel much better with 32G on a dev machine (to be fair, my .net projects require much less ram than this).

mixmastamyk 6y ago
Three browsers open is not a requirement for the vast majority of folks. There are probably a number of useless Windows services that could be shut down as well.
- onion2k 6y ago
  Three browsers open is not a requirement for the vast majority of folks. Every developer who makes frontend things for the web should have a minimum of three browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, but maybe others as well) open any time they're testing or debugging their code. That's quite a lot of developers.
  - mixmastamyk 6y ago
    And 16GB is fine for that. That's not what is taking the majority of the grandparents ram.
  - cupofjoakim 6y ago
    Nah, most of us go browser by browser I think. I think I've been going with two browsers open at most the last 5 years, and at my current employer I'm so reliant on browserstack that I don't even have anything other than chrome running.
aldanor 6y ago
I have 1500 tabs open in Firefox, plus CLion, PyCharm, a few Jupyter kernels eating 5-15G, a few apps running in background - it’s often nearing 32G on a 32G 7-year old Mac and sometimes goes into swap space. I personally won’t consider anything less than 128G as a main machine at this point (and it’s a pity that you can’t swap upgradable RAM on iMacs for 256G).
- whynotminot 6y ago
  ...Can I ask why you have 1500 tabs open?
  - aldanor 6y ago
    Stuff that’s easier to keep as open tabs (in a tree format via TreeStyleTab) and eventually close those trees when they are no longer needed, as opposed to bookmarking everything and eventually accumulating a bajillion of irrelevant bookmarks. E.g., I’m doing house renovation so I might have a good few hundred tabs open just on that topic which will eventually get closed.
    - vel0city 6y ago
      On most browsers you can organize bookmarks in folders/tree structures. You could then delete folders/trees of bookmarks at a time, eliminating this "accumulating a bajillion of irrelevant bookmarks".
      - aldanor 6y ago
        I know. Been there, done that. To each his own, I guess. An open tab is an open tab, if I close it, it's gone forever unless I bookmark it which I would very rarely do. A bookmark is an inverse, it's going to stay there forever unless you clean it up and manually delete it. In my experience, a few hundred more open tabs beats ten thousand dead bookmarks, and closing tabs is easier than cleaning up bookmarks.
    - mixmastamyk 6y ago
      Tabs being "open" doesn't mean they're loaded into ram.
- JAlexoid 6y ago
  That's a little radical... People used to tell me that Java development was resource consuming... But I somehow manage to build systems with 16GB. I didn't even go for 32G on my new laptop.

mixmastamyk 6y ago

Three browsers open is not a requirement for the vast majority of folks. There are probably a number of useless Windows services that could be shut down as well.

onion2k 6y ago
Three browsers open is not a requirement for the vast majority of folks. Every developer who makes frontend things for the web should have a minimum of three browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, but maybe others as well) open any time they're testing or debugging their code. That's quite a lot of developers.
- mixmastamyk 6y ago
  And 16GB is fine for that. That's not what is taking the majority of the grandparents ram.
- cupofjoakim 6y ago
  Nah, most of us go browser by browser I think. I think I've been going with two browsers open at most the last 5 years, and at my current employer I'm so reliant on browserstack that I don't even have anything other than chrome running.

aldanor 6y ago

I have 1500 tabs open in Firefox, plus CLion, PyCharm, a few Jupyter kernels eating 5-15G, a few apps running in background - it’s often nearing 32G on a 32G 7-year old Mac and sometimes goes into swap space. I personally won’t consider anything less than 128G as a main machine at this point (and it’s a pity that you can’t swap upgradable RAM on iMacs for 256G).

whynotminot 6y ago
...Can I ask why you have 1500 tabs open?
- aldanor 6y ago
  Stuff that’s easier to keep as open tabs (in a tree format via TreeStyleTab) and eventually close those trees when they are no longer needed, as opposed to bookmarking everything and eventually accumulating a bajillion of irrelevant bookmarks. E.g., I’m doing house renovation so I might have a good few hundred tabs open just on that topic which will eventually get closed.
  - vel0city 6y ago
    On most browsers you can organize bookmarks in folders/tree structures. You could then delete folders/trees of bookmarks at a time, eliminating this "accumulating a bajillion of irrelevant bookmarks".
    - aldanor 6y ago
      I know. Been there, done that. To each his own, I guess. An open tab is an open tab, if I close it, it's gone forever unless I bookmark it which I would very rarely do. A bookmark is an inverse, it's going to stay there forever unless you clean it up and manually delete it. In my experience, a few hundred more open tabs beats ten thousand dead bookmarks, and closing tabs is easier than cleaning up bookmarks.
  - mixmastamyk 6y ago
    Tabs being "open" doesn't mean they're loaded into ram.
JAlexoid 6y ago
That's a little radical... People used to tell me that Java development was resource consuming... But I somehow manage to build systems with 16GB. I didn't even go for 32G on my new laptop.