Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 at 07:24, William Park via talk wrote: > > On 2024-02-19 20:32, mwilson--- via talk wrote: > > My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. > > ... > > I don't believe you. What do you use for main disk? I tried doing this > with Odroid (top of the line in this

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On the swap usage: There's a parameter (swappiness, on /proc/sys/vm/swappiness or vm.swappiness on /etc/sysctl.conf) that tells the kernel how aggressively to swap. A value of 100 will swap as much as possible until the swap file is full, while 0 will never ever swap, even if there's space and

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

William Park wrote: > On 2024-02-19 20:32, mwilson--- via talk wrote: >> My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. > > ... > > I don't believe you. What do you use for main disk? I tried doing this > with Odroid (top of the line in this embedded space), but got fed up > with all the

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On 2024-02-19 20:32, mwilson--- via talk wrote: My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. > ... I don't believe you. What do you use for main disk? I tried doing this with Odroid (top of the line in this embedded space), but got fed up with all the hassles. --- Post to this

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On 2024-02-20 02:12, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Your RAM having 1.2 GiB available does not actually indicate that RAM is tight. Much of the occupied space might be evictable files. If you were truly short of RAM + swap, I think you would see OOM messages in the log. I used to look

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: mwilson--- via talk | My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. Neat! | `top` says that swap is full (100MiB), but there's 1.2 GiB of memory | available. I'd be tempted to add swap. But then again, if that is on an SD card, maybe not. I don't know the kernel policies. Or

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

Howard Gibson wrote: > I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with > photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am > sharing info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document > formats. > -- > Howard Gibson My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: | > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? | I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with | photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) > "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > > | > > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > > |GNU/Linux,

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > | > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. > > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB?

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On 2024-02-19 10:32, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal:

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? For me, it is Firefox with a lot of tabs. I'm sure that some web pages are way more

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. > Dead deal: > > > Unlike most

[GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal: Unlike most laptops these days, it has two sockets for RAM. Only one was occupied. It had an 8 GiB stick