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> There has been a lot of conspiracy on 16GB being plenty enough

I bought a computer with 16GB in 2011 and around 2015 it was already lagging quite a bit due to swap - switching to 64GB in 2016 was day and night, I don't have to fear launching arbitrarily many jobs anymore.



RAM speeds have also increased quite a lot since 2011. Do you find yourself hitting 64GB of memory use often?


not 64, but I'm regularly hovering in the 40-45 gigs pool


That seems like a very specific use case. I've had 8GB until 2016 and 16GB since and I've never had to deal with that much memory use.


Anyone who runs a couple of VMs or a ton of docker containers is going to run into memory problems.

And that's not an uncommon use-case amongst the developer crowd which has a lot of overlap with HN.




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