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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by swiley on Sunday January 29, 2017 @12:27AM (#13512347)
My laptop has 8 gigabytes of ram. I can fit all of my personal files in that at obce, I don't see why that's not enough for everything.
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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by edoceo on Sunday January 29, 2017 @01:26AM (#13512595)
Space used on disk is less than when the data is in RAM. It's not a binary copy loaded. It's binary data loaded then inflated into app-object memory. So much overhead
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Re:Ubuntu 16.04: “Out of memory” errors after upgrade to 4.4... by minitech on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:34AM (#13513319)
I’ve run with 4 GB of memory and no swap for a long time. It’s not hard.
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