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My primary workstation has 128GB and it is for sure unnecessary. Even with multiple projects running each of which spins up a dozen containers in k3s, and a bac
by erulabs 4y ago
My primary workstation has 128GB and it is for sure unnecessary. Even with multiple projects running each of which spins up a dozen containers in k3s, and a background game of Rimworld as well as all the electron apps that life requires these days, I rarely ever breach 64GB much less 100GB.
The only real use is writing horrifying malloc experiments and having a couple extra seconds to kill them before OOMing.
- gambiting 4y agoI work in video games development and all our workstations have 128GB of ram - I consider that the bare minimum nowadays.
- inciampati 4y agoI routinely use this much RAM for work. And it's not malloc experiments lol. I need 200ag to 500G for my research work. Most of our systems have 384G and this is just enough. If I could only have a laptop with that much...
- TillE 4y agoContainers are relatively resource-efficient; if you need to run a bunch of actual VMs for testing (eg, Windows), you can easily find ways to use 128GB.