32GB of RAM with zram configured aggressively and I still get close at times to running out of ram. 2 more years and I'll probably need to upgrade to 128GB
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Always wonder. I bet he got to double lots of women just from that quote alone.
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I'd read Lemmy posts about what I'd do if I had 32GM of RAM.
Buy 32 more and lollygag on actually installing it, if my recent actions have proven anything.
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Cry that one of my RAM sticks failed.
Do you watch EmpLemon too?
I just got some parts in the mail today so I can run four tabs!
:O Good God man what will you do with all those tabs!
Open Lemmy in 3 of them and have YouTube play a 10 hour cat video on the 4th as God intended of course!
I see I'm not the only person who decided to rewatch it after that thread
I had a desktop with 16GB, never really went over 10, got a new laptop, runing win 11, 32 GB of ram thought it was way overkill, out of the box its running12-20GB, its crazy.
As you start getting closer to your memory limit windows starts unloading things. 11 on first startup will use like 4+ gigs, but only really needs about 2. I honestly have no idea what it's doing with all that extra ram.
Disk caching isn't counted in the ram used number task manager gives you so it's not like that's what it's being used for.
It's sending personal info to Microsoft for marketing purposes
I bought two double rank 16gb sticks so I had the option of 64gb later, but with zero page file I have not had a single issue. I also horde tabs when online shopping, but I use extensions to prevent them from loading until selected. Still, never even been over 25gb in daily use and gaming. I also have a 3090 though so that 24gb vram soaks up a lot.
Is this a problem in Chrome? I use Firefox with just 16gb and have no problem with a couple dozen tabs.
I have firefox and like 3 windows each with 1000+ tabs.
Why?
Could you not just bookmark them
If they "hide" in a bookmark they might as well no longer exist. Of course with 4 windows and hundreds of tabs each, I end up with dupes and sometimes spend hours just culling the ones no longer needed and make no really noticeable progress. I really need to set aside a weekend and do just that, but life demands my attention. 😩
Edit - I also have 32GB of RAM running as 64GB zram and still sometimes get stuff closing because OOM when I do things like run updates while compiling a new kernel.
When it comes time to dedupe, I'll bookmark all open tabs (you can do this per window using ctrl+shift+d), open the bookmark manager and pull them from the per window folders into a single folder, then run an addon to dedupe my favorites. Much faster than trying to do anything like that by hand.
Once that's done you can select all favorites in that folder and open them all up in a new window, but at that point I already have the bookmark manager open so I usually go through them from that.
Game dev tutorials I'm only going to watch once.
You can, but there isn't much of a difference in performance.
really? 1k tabs? genuinely curious as I'm a 0-tabber... whatre your browsing habits ? do you have them organized? you have to have some kinda tab organizer yeah? can i see a screenshot?
It's an exaggeration. Browsers use a lot more RAM than one would expect, but there's not that much of a difference between each one.
Firefox suspends tabs to disk