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[Net Llama!]

On 12/03/2005 04:05 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 12/3/05, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>> On 12/03/2005 02:31 PM, burns wrote:
>> > On Saturday 03 December 2005 03:57, Keith Antoine wrote:
>> >> Rick Sivernell wrote:
>> > <snip> AMD64 with 2 g memory.
>> >
>> >> Well I have exactly the same setup Rick, AMD64 and 2gig.
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> > What the heck are you guys doing with all that memory?
>> >
>>
>> You think 2GB of RAM is alot?  Or was that a joke?
>> Honestly, 2GB is considered very little on x86_64 systems these days,
>> and most of the systems I deal with have 4, 8 or even 16GB of RAM quite
>> regularly.  I've even got one system (which has two dual core Opterons)
>> that has 64GB of RAM, and could take 128GB if only we could track down
>> 8GB memory modules.
>>
> 
> Yeah, I think 2G of memory is one hell of a lot. My Linux system(s)
> run just fine with 512M. OTOH, I suppose I could push it towards swap
> with KDE and 40-50 open browser windows, etc. <grin> You have way too
> many toys!

Not so much toys as hefty workstations used for assorted OpenGL 
rendering with my employer's hardware.  Its not uncommon to have 
datasets over 4GB in size that need to get moved into memory, and then 
parts of them moved in and out of the videocard's memory.

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