Upgrade 16 GB RAM

>upgrade 16 GB RAM
>swap is completely unused
>never using more than 10-12 GB RAM
>check RAM usage at the end of the day
>28 Kb swap usage

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>He fell for the 16GB of RAM meme

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>28kb extra ram for you instead of keepng completely untouched pages in memory

Also it's probably just some pre-allocated headers

>never using more than 10-12 GB RAM
give it three years, you'll be glad to have 16.

On a side note, I just got 16gb of DDR3. Will I wish I had DDR4 down the road?

DDR4 is far faster. Games load faster by a factor of nearly 2x, same for applications like photoshop or other ram heavy stuff.

>Games load faster by a factor of nearly 2x

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You're the only one to blame if you don't even know why you're upgrading in the first place.

you should upgrade when you need it

ddr2 doesn't even fucking bottleneck current games

i have 20GiB ram, and currently have 266MiB pushed into swap

The 16GiB RAM meme comes from 2 years ago when RAM was cheap. It’s more than most users need, but why not throw it in there when it costs $70? Shit, why not 32?

I paid $700 for 64GB of RAM recently and I don't regret it. I've only used about 30GB at most.

>who'll ever need more than 28K RAM
bil blops, 1949 (colorized)

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T H I S

>Games

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>games load faster
that's not what ram is for

what kind of niglet doesnt max out 16gb at all times

$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 13G 651M 860M 1,8G 1,0G
Swap: 11G 7,4G 4,1G


Even if ram is available it is still likely used for disk IO caching and can be freed at any time if a program needs it. On Window you can see this in task manager as 'cached' memory. Windows task manager graph shows the amount of available memory instead of the amount of free memory so it might seem like the memory isn't used.

16GB is eno-

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at least 20GiB is en--

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>games
Grown up, sòyboy.

>we will be installing multiple terabytes of RAM in our lifetimes

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no we won't, ram went from a few mbs to gigabyes in a few years, it's been basically stagnating since then
have you seen the price of ddr3? still the exact same as when i bought my last rig 6 years ago
it's over buddy, this is almost as good as it gets

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If a part of the RAM isn't used for a lot of time it gets moved to the swap to free space.

>have 512mb of ram
>300mb unused

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Oh look, RAM meme thread again.

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No, he fell for swap partition meme.

S-SHUT UP

What are you even doing?

I have 2 GiB of RAM and no swap in a modern operating system in 2018. AMA.

The only reason I would ever want more RAM is so I have a bigger file system cache.

rendering 4k videos

So retarded shit.

t. poorfag

>falling for the 4k meme

Why do you do this to yourself?

>get a laptop with 8gb of ram because people here told me that's all I need
>usually sit around 3-5gb with just regular computer usage
>occasionally spike up to max and have to close shit or wait
>install another 8gb ram
>usually sit around 6 or 7gb with spikes up 12 or so
>dont have to worry about what I have open or how much resources my browser is using

Seems like a small price to pay for a huge increase in convenience/comfortability.

>computer hardware has peaked

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>bought 16GB of RAM
>go no swap space
>PC sometimes crashes
>discover RAM is sometimes 100% full
>currently planning to buy additionally 16GB of RAM
>tfw I read ,,He fell for the 16GB RAM meme"
Are we living in different universes ?

Memory capacity peaked in 2011 or so.

Back then 8GiB or 16GiB was common for high end laptops. Come 2018 and we still have this thread while laptops commonly have options for 8GiB or 16GiB unless you go for a desktop replacement model. Just like in 2011.

Test

Yeah, some people don't use their computers, thye just post speccy and play games all day.

>unused ram is wasted ram

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just wait till every (((application))) includes its own chromedriver
thanks electron

encoding video with vapoursynth/ffmpeg while running a VM with solidworks

At this time, 8GB is more than enough for the majority of users.

>workstation workloads
Yea, you're not typical users.

Most DDR3 kits are 2333/2600

While you pay a premium to get anything higher than 2933 on DDR4

The strategy of "just make the transistors smaller" we been following for years is dead now.
We could stretch it a bit more with better materials but it will get to a point where physics itself get in the way and shit fucks up.

But there's still a way to go on, which is going up by stacking chips, but that way will require to make the "last process" to get constantly cheaper by itself.

I don't think there has been any real changes in how we do just about anything since 2012. Instead we have added ads and bloatware to every part of the stack since that time, and cut massive corners in security in every perciveabl e layer of the stack.

When they hit transistor size limit they'll just start to add more instructions like Intel is doing with AVX-512. Time for CISC to shine again.