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What uses most of your ram when you need 16GB+?
by peteradio 6y ago
What uses most of your ram when you need 16GB+?
- whalesalad 6y agoYou can never have enough ram!
- peteradio 6y agoHaha! I somehow became sated with 16GB on my laptop. Now any of my workloads which require more would simultaneously want higher cpu, so those loads get pushed to a different machine entirely. So I'm curious what is the use case for 16GB+ with a laptop cpu.
- kilburn 6y agoFor some people the main advantage of a laptop is the posssibility to move to spots where there's no or very bad connection. In those cases it becomes really useful to be able to run all your workloads on it, even if much slower.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoFor some projects, linking non-stripped binaries can take huge amounts of virtual memory. At least on ELF/DWARF platforms with the Gnu linker. Not sure if that applies here, since I assume the Mac will be using the LLVM linker, and Mach-O != ELF.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoVirtual memory, or real memory? You're never going to run out of virtual memory on a 64-bit platform.
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoVirtual memory. I mentioned it in this context because running out of physical memory means the machine starts swapping, which often results in a very undesirable slowdown.
- swiftcoder 6y agoChrome. Slack. VSCode. The proliferation of desktop software that are just more Chrome processes in disguise has been punishing on memory usage. My work machine used to fully lockup on a daily basis with 16 GB of RAM. 32 GB seems to be the sweet spot right now.
- masklinn 6y ago> Chrome. Slack. VSCode. VMs, especially since you need one to run docker on OSX, IntelliJ, Firefox, ...
- sfblah 6y agoPeople claim if you switch off to Safari the memory footprint goes down. Of course, if you're an FE dev, that comes with more ... challenging ... dev tools. YMMV.
- ArchOversight 6y agoI run Slack as a tab in Safari because it avoids the pain of running the electron app, and reduces my memory footprint.
- Lendal 6y agoAnything built with Electronjs.