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

[John Whitehead]

We have 8gb images at work, which Adobe says need 32gb of memory to work on.

Mind you, if you can afford Adobe .....J


---- On Wed, 01 May 2019 16:00:22 +0000 nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk wrote ----


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 Those details are already out of date!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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