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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by gonyea on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:18PM (#15268079)
It lets me defer the inevitable Chrome Tab Bankruptcy. But seriously, having a heavy build system with lots of dependencies will easily max out a desktop like this.
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Re:HP Updates Z8 Workstations: Up to 56 Cores, 3 TB RAM, 9 P... by oso2k on Sunday September 17, 2017 @12:13AM (#15268197)
Hahaha. I'm like that too. But there's another ceiling around 16GB of RAM usage by Chrome processes (almost 200 tabs). :)
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