[ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM

[Alex Carver]

On 2015-08-29 10:34, Vernard Martin wrote:
> On 8/19/2015 8:04 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
>> I bought a 32G HP ZBook last year -- I expected to need it for multiple
>> VMs.  Just peeked:  MemFree ~20G after 36 hours uptime and 2 background
>> VMs.  Mind you, linux generally has little to no MemFree as it will be
>> allocated to disk buffers.  So this represents memory that probably has
>> never been allocated in a typical workday.
>>
>> I'd have been fine with 16G.  For now.
>>
>>
> I received a 16GB HP Zbook which serves as my "laptop" at work and I
> routinely have about 8 "headless" VMs running (i.e. no graphical
> desktop) and i still have about 4GB of RAM free.  And i use chrome too.
> 
> No idea why you folks are having so much trouble with Chrome. Maybe I
> scared it into submission with all the VMs? :)
> 

I have a secret weapon for controlling Chrome's memory consumption:  use
the 32-bit version. :)  It can't address more than 4 GB of RAM.  I did
the same for Firefox, too.