Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > you know - I don't give a rat's ass about 'pig' or not, because: > I have enough ram. Ram is cheap. 16gb of DDR 1600 ECC costs what? 160€? > Cheap.
What kind of argument is this? I do not consider it cheap to spend 160 bucks only to waste them for nothing. *If* I should spend 160 bucks for ram, then I would want to use this ram for: calculations, image manipulation, many parallel tasks, or whatever have been my reasons to spend 160 bucks. Certainly not for wasting it to unnecessary bloat: This would mean to spend 160 buck to get ... eehmm ... what? An even slower system? > 11GB used. Great. What a pointless waste. My laptop has 512MB, my "small" PC 1GB, and my "large" PC 2GB. Especially the large one is reasonably fast (with a sane windows manager) and is used for all tasks a desktop is typically used for - including a *lot* of multimedia, firefox, emacs, tex, gcc; usually several instances of all these in parallel. Only in *very* rare situations ram gets low, so I do not really feel any restriction due to 2GB "only".
