Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard

Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by pxmpxm on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:49PM (#38976584)

I can never quite figure out what the use case is - as I sit here with 2 brave tabs open, my 10.13 mac is using up 13.58gb of ram.

These conversations usually usually end up at "my 8gb ram machine actually swaps constantly, but it's fine because otherwise I'd have to face the cognitive dissonance of justifying this purchase, so I'd rather repeat the apple marketing line they came up with to BS around their poor silicon yields"

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Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by skybrian on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:37PM (#38977365)

That's so high I suspect measurement error. How did you come up with that number?

(It does look like my machine is using some swap space, but I don't notice any lag, so I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.)

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Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by throwaway44110 on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:58PM (#38976635)

The SWE colleague sitting next to me has a M1 Air with 8 GB RAM and runs VS Code, multiple browsers with many tabs, Slack and Webpack with the TS/React app he works on just fine. Dual display setup too.

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Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by lostlogin on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:53PM (#38976605)

I’m not sure that usage means anything. If it needed more it would be more aggressive in clearing stuff out as far as I can tell.

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Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by pxmpxm on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:56PM (#38976626)

Clearing out means swapping to disk, right?

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Re:Why 32GB of RAM is becoming the standard by lostlogin on Saturday January 13, 2024 @05:05AM (#38978573)

Perhaps?

Maybe it’s the speed of the SSD that prevents me noticing it, but it sure feels fast and I don’t have a ton of memory

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