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burns
linux
Sun Dec 4 17:12:30 PST 2005
On Saturday 03 December 2005 18:39, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/03/2005 02:31 PM, burns wrote:
>
> > 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.
For servers yes, that isn't much memory, but it seems a lot for a desktop -
especially a Linux desktop. We used to pride ourselves on how
resource-efficient Linux was. Has this changed with 64 bit desktop computing
on Linux?
--
Burns
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