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On the other hand I've been running 16GB of ram for a while and I can't conceive of a reason why I would need more. 32GB seems like overkill. What would you do
by bluedays 5y ago
On the other hand I've been running 16GB of ram for a while and I can't conceive of a reason why I would need more. 32GB seems like overkill. What would you do with all of that ram? Open more tabs?
- darkmatterrat 5y agoI've hit 48gb of ram while developing on Debian. Granted I am running about 10 docker containers and 3 IDEs. It depends what you are doing.
- t-writescode 5y agoCompilation, graphics work, heavy-weight IDEs And, if you're spinning on 16GB ram on an M1, you might be eating through the SSD powering your swap space and not know it.
- EugeneOZ 5y agoindeed. From my experience, I see that my MBA uses swap sometimes, but I can't notice it. Still, I want to avoid it.
- thebean11 5y agoLooking at activity monitor, I'm currently using ~19GB, doing nothing special (IntelliJ, 15 chrome tabs, Spotify, Slack). Docker Desktop was using 8GB before I killed it. And this is on an Intel Mac so it doesn't include GPU memory usage I believe, which is shared in M1 Macs. This likely isn't a perfect metric, if I were closer to the limit I think MacOS would get more aggressive about compression and offloading stuff to disk but still.
- Tagbert 5y agoBrowsers generally allocate RAM with abandon but any one process is not necessarily memory bound. It just means that they are using that as page cache.
- lowbloodsugar 5y agoBah IntelliJ is a pig. It's worth it, but it's a pig.