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Well, my iMac tops out at 3GB of RAM, which makes running a VM a little tough. As an example, yesterday I was doing some work in SBCL (Lisp) that required mult

by smanek 18y ago

Well, my iMac tops out at 3GB of RAM, which makes running a VM a little tough. As an example, yesterday I was doing some work in SBCL (Lisp) that required multithreading. Due to a bug in sb-thread in the Mac implementation of SBCL I needed to use a Linux VM. However, the 2GB of memory I could afford to devote to the Linux VM was insufficient (in fact, the entire 3GB would probably have been insufficient - that being part of the reason for the upgrade). Take me at my word when I say I need Linux and 16GB of Ram (I could probably make do with 8GB, but I'd rather be future-proof with 16GB).

jwilliams 18y ago
Well, my iMac tops out at 3GB of RAM, which makes running a VM a little tough. Shrug - Just curious really.... I run a MBP with 3Gb as well - Eclipse and 2 VMs, runs pretty well. One is the repo, the other is a build/test VM. I don't allocate nearly as much RAM to them, however. Occasionally fire up a Windows VM to check I haven't broken the Win32 build. For larger tests I've built some Linux headless boxes. I just ssh in and co/make/run when necessary. For my needs a pretty inexpensive way of going about it.