On 05/07/2014 10:50 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
32 GB is probably still overkill for a desktop, but after suffering with a machine that's been on the low side, I'm pondering going to the other extreme for my next build.
I hate it when people respond to a question with "Why do you want to do that?", but forgive me, I am going to do it now: Why?
Here is why I ask: I am just shifting things over to a new 16GB machine. I got that much because I could and it was pretty cheap. But I don't know what I am going to do with all that. That is a *bleep* of a lot of RAM.
Being an old coot, I was marveling over how big my new disks are. Sometimes I watch the video podcast of NBC's Nightly News. And how many of that ~100MB file could I store?
Then it hit me: I could buffer up 100 episodes in RAM! And still have enough to run a couple C++ programs, and an OS or three. Even emacs.
I don't run Microsoft software, so my general strategy for using all that RAM is to run virtual machines. But for non-graphical stuff and no Firefox tabs, just a couple hundred megabytes is still a lot of RAM.
Compiling all of Android Open Source Project supposedly requires that much RAM, but I don't believe it. They are just saying that so people won't try on too slow a machine. Right?
I can certainly imagine uses for RAM, such as big databases in RAM, simulating the physics of the real world (weather prediction, Pixar rendering their new film, cosmology simulations of the big bang, etc.), but it is hard to come up with much more without resorting to strategies based on waste.
How will I end of using my 16GB? How will you use 32GB? -kb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
