Guys who have 16 gigs and more, how do you use it under linux? About 8 months ago I built my first PC and decided to go straight a way for 16gb as slight futureproof and to make sure that games under windows would not need to make use of swap. Also It is my first PC that I am the only user and have free will to do whatever I want with this machine so finally I could install linux on bare metal. Currently I rarely boot into windows and under linux I mainly tinker and most of the time I spend in terminal and web browser(4-20 tabs most of the time) and rarely exced 2GB used total (used + buffored/cached + whatever acording to htop)
I already make use of ramdisk, /tmp mounted in it and sometimes when I download file that I am sure I do not wish to save on disk I put it in ram. Still even when I fetch lots of such files I end up using ~6GB.
My question is: what are other useful ways of using such amounts of ram under linux
Also how do I assign some ram to share with GPU in linux (nvidia gtx 750 ti 1GB) Nvidia settings show: Total Memory: 1024 MB Total Dedicated Memory: 981 MB
make the ramdisk bigger or reduce/delete the pagefile
Leo Kelly
swap is already disabled
what about mounting other directories in ramdisk? what else can I mount on ramdisk to still be able to upgrade system etc.
Benjamin Hughes
Android studio, 4-5 emulator instances, vscode, separate mysql/nginx/php-fpm docker container through compose for each project and chrome will easily push you over 8GB. I still don't need more than 16GB though.
Caleb Edwards
>what are other useful ways of using such amounts of ram under linux virtual machines
>Also how do I assign some ram to share with GPU in linux (nvidia gtx 750 ti 1GB) easy answer - vmware hard answer - google PCI passthrough via OVMF
Ayden Cox
My PC has 40GB, I mostly use it for remotely compiling software for my laptop.
Tyler Jackson
Minecraft modpacks, I'm actually dead serious when I say this. You'll use plenty of ram on the really loaded packs. They also can add new levels of gameplay and difficulty.
KDE+Chrome+utils like Skype, Telegram, RDP, Audacious, etc. 5GB right now, so not too good, not too bad. > boot into windows I boot into it from Linux, that's another 4GB out. So yes, you're right, could live with 8 GB and SSD swap. BTW, Linux uses all the RAM it needs for FS cache, you can see it in free -m. So you can ponder how you can improve your RAM usage or let it be.
Aiden Jones
>what do i do with too much ram? No hate user, but your question sounds seriously retarded, like one of many threads sayin: "guise, i bought raspberry pi, the fuck do i do with it"? If youre seriously asking id say you could sell half of it (since obviously you have no need for it), and book a meeting with someone that knows how to manage money, rather than look for problems to use extra ram on.
Just run gnome and chrome. All your worries about having too much ram will be gone.
Colton Taylor
You're VMs can be allocated lots of ram. That's good, right?
Kevin Wood
>16gb ddr4 >have constant 50% used up for browsing
Oliver Taylor
funpark style
Bentley Anderson
Glad people know funpark here
Wyatt Myers
>Minecraft I'm not into gaming much in linux, that's why I dualboot with windows
>free -m use it too but I'm too lazy to do basic add every time that's why I look at htop displayed value.
>seriously asking Yes I'm serious, I do not say I have too much and don't know what to do with it. I use it for games when I boot into windows and I ask you what are interesting usecases for high amounts of RAM in LINUX that I may overlook. Like other suggested I already run VMs sometimes but not everyday so I want to know how you use RAM so I can maby use it the same way. My post was intended to possibly discover new system features or inspire me to learn something (I think blender can be worth learning)
>gnome and chrome nah I fell in love with i3(i love speed and enjoy keyboard control) chrome seems a bit less snappy + "google bad"
>zram0 heard once about "zram" but is it more usefull than /tmp on tmpfs or is it just "compressed swap in ram"
Sebastian Diaz
Nothing about that post is an RP. Stay poor, faggot.
Easton Davis
Java version of Minecraft works on linux just fine actually not much required there if you were interested. Stuff like multimc to manage modpacks.
Wyatt White
>Minecraft btw I tought minecraft is dead by now, or am I just getting old?
Julian Murphy
I don't really understand why you feel the need to use more memory in linux. Sounds like buyer's remorse perhaps? You said yourself you bought it for windows (and more specifically, gaming) and 16gb is a good amount for that. You made a reasonable decision for what you planned on doing with your computer. The fact that you mainly use linux for just simple web browsing doesn't take away from the value the ram brings to your system since you will need it for those few times you do boot into windows to fire up a game.
Gavin Ward
>what are other useful ways of using such amounts of ram under linux develop with vscode + 50 firefox tabs reaches about 9Gb. Combine that with virtual machine environment for testing and you can easliy hit that 16Gb mark.
Blake Foster
Maybe but I'm old too and don't care if popular or not. "Whaeva I do what I want"
Levi Howard
When I was using my X201 with 6gb of ram daily, running Linux, I had it slow down a fuck lot (to the point that I had to just turn it off and on again) twice, probably using swap. Firefox watching stream, some other tabs, also extensions and userscripts, Discord open too. It was really annoying.
Levi Baker
>Firefox watching stream custom players seems to not discard buffers some times and I observe leakage often.
Jason Cooper
16GB here, and I actually ran out the other day despite also having 5GB swap. I had open: >main firefox instance with 200+ tabs >two alternate firefox instances with ~10 tabs each >two instances of gimp >~10 files open in inkscape >openscad >~5 pdfs open in okular, 50+ pages each >a few dozen terminals (currently have 66 open, but I closed a bunch when memory got low) With all that open, I tried running an 8-core LLVM build and a rustc build in parallel, and at that point finally ran out (the rustc build got oomkilled)
The main thing is that when I switch off of a particular project, I don't close any of the programs I had open for it. Instead, I just switch to a different set of virtual desktops. The upside is, when I switch back to that project, everything is right where I left it. The downside is the RAM usage.
