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Battery life. Many of us using memory are using it on portable devices. And even if we're using servers, the power consumed there matters too. Refreshing tha

Battery life. Many of us using memory are using it on portable devices. And even if we're using servers, the power consumed there matters too. Refreshing that RAM costs power and more RAM means more energy -- even if the memory is unused.

wheybags 4y ago
I wonder if it would be possible / worth it to have the os prioritise one stick and power down the others until reaching some utilisation threshold.
- zarzavat 4y ago
  This is basically equivalent to having swap on an SSD. So it’s cheaper to just have a larger/faster SSD.