▲ 636 ▼ Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399 (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 1 week ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world 128 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child) introducing: zram toss 32 or 64gb at that and call it a day permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) YMMV. Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it "steals" space that could be used for normal memory. But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 week ago ah fair enough, worst case scenario if they dont know what to do with that much ram (I would build a homelab) they could also have a ramdisk permalink fedilink source parent [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child) If you're able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better. Zram is intended for devices with no swap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago ...This appears to be amazing advice. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (2 children) YMMV. Big ZRAM absolutely tanks performance for me because it "steals" space that could be used for normal memory. But if its for squirrling away a bunch of idle processes when multitasking like crazy, yeah, it can be wonderful. Just depends. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 week ago ah fair enough, worst case scenario if they dont know what to do with that much ram (I would build a homelab) they could also have a ramdisk permalink fedilink source parent [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child) If you're able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better. Zram is intended for devices with no swap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago ...This appears to be amazing advice. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 1 week ago ah fair enough, worst case scenario if they dont know what to do with that much ram (I would build a homelab) they could also have a ramdisk permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child) If you're able to have swap, Zswap is supposed to be better. Zram is intended for devices with no swap permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago ...This appears to be amazing advice. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago ...This appears to be amazing advice. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! permalink fedilink source parent