Re:Intel Skylake Review
by seiji on Thursday August 06, 2015 @10:36AM
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we're getting to the point where you could copy the entire working set of the OS to memory
I've run diskless, boot-from-network systems with 2 to 4 GB RAM with the entire OS+data+servers in memory. If you know your exact sizes, you don't need giant RAM.
As far as desktop or interactive systems go, in 2009 I made a desktop with 24 GB RAM which essentially never read from the disk after everything got cached appropriately.
save to disk periodically.
That's what your kernel does. There's a long history of flushing dirty pages back to disk.
My dream machine would be
It looks like you want a MacBook Pro from 3 years ago?
I've run diskless, boot-from-network systems with 2 to 4 GB RAM with the entire OS+data+servers in memory. If you know your exact sizes, you don't need giant RAM.
As far as desktop or interactive systems go, in 2009 I made a desktop with 24 GB RAM which essentially never read from the disk after everything got cached appropriately.
save to disk periodically.
That's what your kernel does. There's a long history of flushing dirty pages back to disk.
My dream machine would be
It looks like you want a MacBook Pro from 3 years ago?