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[Net Llama!]

On 12/04/2005 01:11 PM, burns wrote:
> 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?
> 

I don't think its changed, in fact I think the opposite has occurred. 
If you've got 8GB of geologic data you need to visualize, or if you have 
32GB of CAD data that you need to model, or if you have to render 
golum's entire body, you can't really do that if you have less than 2GB 
of RAM, unless you want the box to swap itself to death as its passing 
the data back & forth between system memory & video memory.

OpenGL is a bit of a pig when it comes to memory usage, but that's not 
Linux's fault.

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