I have run many simulations for which 16GB of RAM was just barely enough to finish the sim in a sane time. Only 7-10 days. 32GB would have allowed a better sim without swapping... as soon as you transition to swapping, the sim time is measured in months.
*Drew Van Zandt Cam # US2010035593 (M:Agapito Acosta) * On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/08/2014 10:16 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > >> I have a few monster spreadsheets (whether at least one of them should be >> a spreadsheet is a good question, but that's neither here nor there). With >> 16GB on my laptop, it pages. >> > > Whether it should be a spreadsheet maybe is point: we use modern > quantities of memory by "wasting" it. But, if you have it, why not? Do > graphics one-pixel-per-spreadsheet-cell, if you want. > > What was once a supercomputer locked away for use by appointment for > Important Projects is now something that gets shoved in front of a sticky > baby to try to entertain the little tike a few minutes more. And mom swears > it is worth it, insists it is an important project. > > -kb, the Kent who is still stunned to try to appreciate how much 16GB of > RAM is. > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
