Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by DennisAleynikov on Saturday March 10, 2018 @07:39PM
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this is supposed to be exaggerated but who the fuck uses a 32 core computer with hundreds for gigabytes of ram. Do you mean their data centers?
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Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by taspeotis on Saturday March 10, 2018 @07:41PM
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The numbers might be slightly exaggerated. Nonetheless, they’re high-end machines.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and...
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by jjuhl on Sunday March 11, 2018 @07:13AM
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My dev workstation at work has 20 Xeon cores w/ HT (so 40 threads), 64GB RAM and a 1TB NVME SSD. All that hardware sees plenty of use when compiling large C++ applications.
My home machine has 4 i7 cores w/ HT, 32GB RAM & a 1TB SSD. Compiling stuff on that one is ok, although quite a bit slower.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by IncRnd on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:36PM
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My desktop has 128 GB with 32 cores.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by KindOne on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:39PM
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What CPU/mobo you using?
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by IncRnd on Saturday March 10, 2018 @10:50PM
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The one I mentioned is a precision w/ 2x2680. These dropped in price and flooded the market after leases finished. There are too many problems and finicky nonsense with adding extra video cards (due to the power supply). I also have an HP w/ 2x2680v2 128GB on the way. Using the HP I'll be able use for some projects a few of the old nanos and 295x2s I have sitting around. These are so cheap now.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by KindOne on Saturday March 10, 2018 @11:35PM
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Reminds me of this, https://medium.com/@timgasser/build-a-16-core-128gb-server-f... Looks like from supply and demand those prices increased a bit.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by IncRnd on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:08PM
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It's more expensive to build one than to buy one, which is why I said I bought some off lease. I've bought systems not (generally higher priced) parts that were scavenged or not sold.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by KindOne on Sunday March 11, 2018 @10:17PM
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I had misread that, thanks.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by gravypod on Sunday March 11, 2018 @09:25AM
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Do you have any model numbers or suggestions as to where to buy this sort of stuff? I want to get (always wanted really) a dev server for home.
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by IncRnd on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:06PM
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Sure. You can start here. https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&D...
Re:Ask HN: One tab on Chrome takes about 100MB memory, why?
by amzn_82582 on Sunday March 11, 2018 @03:06AM
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Most amazon employees now use ec2 instances as their development environment so using a x1e.32xlarge with 128 vCPU's (64 cores over 4 sockets), 3,904 GiB of memory, 2 x 1,920 NVMe GB drives, and 14,000 Mbps of EBS bandwidth is possible.
Granted, I don't know anyone that uses that much and you would probably get asked by management for using a dev desktop that big but you can if you need to. I myself use just a i3.xlarge with 4 vCPU's, 30.5 or memory, Up to 10 Gigabit of EBS storage and 1 x 0.95 NVMe SSD.