Tim BrayApr 21, 2023

My laptops since about 2018 have all had 32G of memory. No combination of Lightroom, video streaming, Jetbrains IDEs, Slack, dozens of browser tabs, and recently generative graphics have ever caused detectible memory pressure.

I’m beginning to think that for the vast majority of people, 32G is enough memory, for the foreseeable future.

Show threadDr. Juande Santander-VelaApr 21, 2023
@timbray in other words, 32GiB are the new 640kiB, got it 😉
Show threadMans RApr 21, 2023
@juandesant @timbray For most people, that's likely true. Personally, I'm making good use of 128G.
Show threadTim BrayApr 21, 2023

@mansr @juandesant

Wow, that's interesting. What are you doing?

Show threadDr. Juande Santander-VelaApr 21, 2023
@timbray @mansr also curious… model training, inference? Or massive simulations?
Show threadMans R

@juandesant @timbray Nothing quite so exciting, I'm afraid. Mostly, I'm building system images using OpenEmbedded. Keeping most of the temporary files in RAM really speeds things up.

Then there was the time I accidentally created a 100k square matrix in Matlab. That can hardly be considered a good use of RAM, though.

Apr 21, 2023 at 11:30amWeb