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Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than e

Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than enough. I've got 8GB, and haven't any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they'd have been perfectly happy with only 16GB. An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote "essential", though I guess it's not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.

StavrosK 14y ago
Hell, I had 2 GB RAM before and it seemed ok, 8 GB now is more than I need. I had to send the SSD for replacement, though, and it was easily the most frustrating week in recent memory.
hippich 14y ago
RAM is so cheap today, I just maxed it out on my laptop. Granted, I have seen only probably 22GB out of 32GB used when I had YACY (P2P search network written in Java) running, but I still expect having system use rest of RAM for caches which in theory should speedup access to file system (on my SSD drive)
chuppo 14y ago
I find my 4GB to be enough. I develop on it in Java and sometimes Python using Intellij and have several VMs in kvm and one (windows) in VirtualBox, it also runs nginx and postgresql, and Im using KDE. I dont understand people who go to 16 or 32GB of ram. Sure its cheap, but I would rather spend that money on a faster SSD or HD than ram.
username3 14y ago
Memory deduplication in Windows 8 [1] will lower RAM usage for VMs further. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/better-on-the-inside-under-the-hood-of-windows-8/3/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/better...
emddudley 14y ago
FWIW Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) has a maximum memory limit of 16 GB. Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate can go up to 192 GB. Windows 8 is limited to 128 GB, but the Professional and Enterprise editions can do 512 GB. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...

StavrosK 14y ago

Hell, I had 2 GB RAM before and it seemed ok, 8 GB now is more than I need. I had to send the SSD for replacement, though, and it was easily the most frustrating week in recent memory.

hippich 14y ago

RAM is so cheap today, I just maxed it out on my laptop. Granted, I have seen only probably 22GB out of 32GB used when I had YACY (P2P search network written in Java) running, but I still expect having system use rest of RAM for caches which in theory should speedup access to file system (on my SSD drive)

chuppo 14y ago

I find my 4GB to be enough. I develop on it in Java and sometimes Python using Intellij and have several VMs in kvm and one (windows) in VirtualBox, it also runs nginx and postgresql, and Im using KDE. I dont understand people who go to 16 or 32GB of ram. Sure its cheap, but I would rather spend that money on a faster SSD or HD than ram.

username3 14y ago

Memory deduplication in Windows 8 [1] will lower RAM usage for VMs further. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/better-on-the-inside-under-the-hood-of-windows-8/3/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/better...

emddudley 14y ago

FWIW Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) has a maximum memory limit of 16 GB. Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate can go up to 192 GB. Windows 8 is limited to 128 GB, but the Professional and Enterprise editions can do 512 GB. From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366778 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...