[Nottingham] How Much Memory Do You Need: 8, 16 or 32GB of RAM?

[Daryl]

I'm presuming that 64 bit memory pointers are to blame. I read an article
recently that it's a pointless waste of memory most of the time as apps
don't need more than 4gb and it affects cache hit rate. Was it Brian
Kernighan?

Daryl.

On Wed, 1 May 2019, 16:54 Martin via Nottingham, <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Clarification below:
>
>
> On 29/04/2019 21:01, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> > Well... Those details are already out of date!
> >
> > For the latest in the world of Microsoft bloat, you soon will need to
> > have 32GBytes all the way!!
>
> Just to be clear, the 32GBytes in the article is Microsoft's latest
> minimum [disk] *storage* requirements.
>
> Supposedly: "Minimum RAM requirements remain 1GB for 32-bit Windows 10
> and 2GB for the 64-bit version."
>
>
> However, from my personal experience, those minimums are not practical
> for any Windows system I've had fix...!
>
> And really? x2 RAM needed just from going from 32bit to 64bit?!!
>
>
> > See:
> >
> > The difference between October and May? About 16GB, says Microsoft:
> > Windows 10 1903 will need 32GB of space
> >
> > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/windows_10_storage/
> >
> >
> > I'll be keeping with my Raspberry Pi and Linux on a very sleek 1GByte!
> :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > On 23/04/2019 18:56, Martin via Nottingham wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> For a change, here's a usefully informative article about "how much
> >> memory" is a good fit for a PC.
> >>
> >> How Much Memory Do You Need: 8, 16 or 32GB of RAM?
> >> https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/how-much-ram-memory,6092.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Note that 'special' uses or 'certain applications' can completely blow
> >> those numbers away...
> >>
> >> The article is obviously (bloated) Windows biased but covers the things
> >> to consider. However, note that in the Linux world such as the humble
> >> Raspberry Pi works perfectly well with just 512MBytes or 1GByte of
> RAM...
> >>
> >>
> >> Hopefully of interest to some ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>
>
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