Re: cheap laptops
Bob Hepple via linux-aus <[email protected]>
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8Gb is ample for me - fedora-38/sway/firefox (24 tabs presently):
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 7.6Gi 5.3Gi 200Mi 740Mi 2.2Gi
1.3Gi
Swap: 7.6Gi 1.8Gi 5.8Gi
$ sudo ps_mem:
...
43.1 MiB + 618.5 KiB = 43.7 MiB pipewire-pulse
44.7 MiB + 37.5 KiB = 44.7 MiB nordvpnd
22.9 MiB + 25.5 MiB = 48.4 MiB sway
45.0 MiB + 9.9 MiB = 54.9 MiB keepassxc
70.3 MiB + 4.8 MiB = 75.1 MiB syncthing (2)
59.0 MiB + 18.3 MiB = 77.3 MiB com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
79.9 MiB + 17.2 MiB = 97.1 MiB WebKitWebProcess
181.0 MiB + 9.7 MiB = 190.7 MiB mythfrontend
218.8 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 223.9 MiB emacs-29.0.91
186.3 MiB + 43.0 MiB = 229.4 MiB rclone (12)
3.3 GiB + 162.2 MiB = 3.5 GiB firefox (33)
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4.9 GiB
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I don't even notice the swapping. No VM's, mind.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 15:34, Russell Stuart via linux-aus <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/6/23 14:59, Steven Ellis via linux-aus wrote:
> > I suppose it depends on your usage, but I wouldn't touch anything
> > below 16GB for personal and 32GB for work these days. My web browser
> > alone uses 16 GB on a regular basis.
>
> On my laptop I run a browser, vscode, SQL DB's, web servers and the
> other usual stuff that I forget.
>
> $ free -h
> total used free shared
> buff/cache available
> Mem: 15Gi 7.5Gi 1.3Gi 459Mi
> 6.6Gi 7.1Gi
> Swap: 15Gi 0B 15Gi
>
> As you say it depends on what you are doing. 8GB would be fine for me
> on typical days. Occasionally I run a Windows VM and then 16GB isn't
> enough without swap. With swap I get by.
>
> If you aren't spilling over into swap very occasionally, I'd say you've
> spent too much on memory and using too much battery.
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