[ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> No VMs. Current desktop I built 01/2012. Needs faster disk I/O. I
> spend about 45 minutes waiting on a compile of software when I do a
> fresh checkout. 
> 
> The reason I said 64GB is because when I was pricing out a
> workstation on Penguin Computing's website the lowest was 64.
> Personally, 16 is fine. With 64 though I could copy the source tree
> into a ramdisk. Luckily I do have a UPS under my desk. :) 

The ramdisk idea seems good, although 64GB seems kind of big for a
source tree (but a du -h would settle that matter).

When "Penguin Computing" and comments about price appear in the
same sentence, that brings up a whole different discussion.

SteveT

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