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Some people can use some quite RAM-hungry applications, therefore the more RAM available to those the better.
by scarygliders 4y ago
Some people can use some quite RAM-hungry applications, therefore the more RAM available to those the better.
- onli 4y agoNot some people - everyone uses a web browser.
- scarygliders 4y agoIndeed, that is included within the subset of "quite RAM-hungry applications" :)
- mdp2021 4y agoSince we read that, there is a high chance (not total)... This page weights in the staggering order of 16MB on Lynx!
- zokier 4y agoI'd imagine most people running RAM hungry applications would have enough RAM so that saving single gigabyte is not really relevant
- c-cube 4y agoI'm horrified by the words "saving a single gigabyte". What have we come to? Wasting a billion bytes is a small deal now? :-/
- scarygliders 4y agoOkay here's a typical example... Try running Stable-Diffusion, specifically the Automatic1111 version, and merging various checkpoints. On my 32GB PC, after doing a few merges, the linux kernel is beginning to use many GBs of swap. Further attempts at merging checkpoints can result in OOM kicking in. If I can save a GB or two, that can help get those final mergings accomplished. Otherwise, it's a case of restarting the application and continuing from there. An alternative is to keep increasing the available swap space. Mine is at 10GB by default. The problem with that is you can end up waiting for the system to swap stuff in and out, and this can result in system pauses. The other alternative of course is to buy more RAM. And here was me thinking 32GB was a decent amount ;)