24 Jun
2017
24 Jun
'17
11:36 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:20 AM, zap calmstorm@posteo.de wrote:
but I just learned what you have been trying to tell me for a while, with regard to how the amount of ram I have been asking for: 8gb isn't even needed.
ah so you've not run 25 xterms, wicd-gtk, chromium with 20 tabs open, firefox with 200+, openscad, qemu _and_ vlc all simultaneously then :) that takes up 13 out of 16gb
no that's a developer mindset. for ordinary average person usage, libreoffice, one web browser maybe 3-5 tabs if that, and vlc: yes 8gb is total overkill.
one problem is that linux tends to use unused memory for cacheing. i have a vague recollection of it being used for file cacheing.
l.