Imagine a student having a short term memory of that size...., they would pass their examinations like a breeze with flying colours!bester69 wrote:4GB RAM minimum for today!
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
What I spend my money on is no concern of yours.Segfault wrote:Fascinating. I've always wondered why some people add odd amounts of RAM to their computers. First, it costs money, second, it is a waste of energy. It must be the same thing that makes them to buy pickup trucks and/or ugly SUV's. Some dark desire that cannot be overridden by common sense. My condolences.phenest wrote:In fact, my laptop which has 32GB, is at this moment only using 1.4GB running Gnome 3 with Claws Mail and Chromium (1 tab) open. Then I started playing The Shining in HD with MPV, started Rhythmbox playing Pink Floyd, then started System Monitor and Nautilus. 1.7GB used.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
Yep. 2 GB is fine, 4 GB or more is better, and it depends on the user and what's being done. The computer I'm typing this from has "only" 2 GB RAM. I have Debian and Arch on it, but also openSUSE (with KDE). KDE runs fine. I don't often run with a dozen or more tabs open in the web browser, though. Too messy; I make use of the History. And/or bookmarks.dasein wrote:2GB of RAM is tight but perfectly workable
Edit: I should also point out that I have another computer, 2 GB RAM; that one struggles with Chromium and Firefox and isn't all that great with "lighter" web browsers. I wouldn't even try running KDE on that machine. Obviously, RAM isn't the only thing to consider.
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Segfault wrote:Fascinating. I've always wondered why some people add odd amounts of RAM to their computers. First, it costs money, second, it is a waste of energy. It must be the same thing that makes them to buy pickup trucks and/or ugly SUV's. Some dark desire that cannot be overridden by common sense. My condolences.phenest wrote:In fact, my laptop which has 32GB, is at this moment only using 1.4GB running Gnome 3 with Claws Mail and Chromium (1 tab) open. Then I started playing The Shining in HD with MPV, started Rhythmbox playing Pink Floyd, then started System Monitor and Nautilus. 1.7GB used.
Uhh, maybe because it is required for WORK? I need 24-32GB, with a current 32GB installed.
I constantly run at least one VM ( runs my Linux stuff ) that has at least 4GB RAM dedicated to it on this workstation. Then, if Lightroom is open my gallery chews through 2-8GB RAM depending on what collection set I have open, the more photos and previews being loaded = more RAM used.
Toss in opening a 4752x3168 or larger image to edit in Photoshop at the same time and that can easily eat up to 10GB RAM depending on how many adjustment layers are being used. Assuming the heaviest use that is 10+8+4 = 22GB RAM so there is 10 GB left over for system / browser / whatever use.
You are welcome to try doing this workload on a system with 4-8GB of RAM if you want.... just be prepared to spend all day swapping out to disk when trying to get anything done.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
To answer the OP... No I don't need even 1GB for my everyday tasks, though some of my PCs do have upto 4GB. I want the same interface on all my computers and I have a need for speed on even the powerpc's and Celerons. My main desktop is nearly 10 years old and several people comment on how fast it is. I only need libre office for work, Seamonkey and a few utilities. On my desktop I run Claws mail so could add another 100MB.
2.0 MiB + 578.0 KiB = 2.6 MiB tint2
3.2 MiB + 94.0 KiB = 3.3 MiB hald
3.3 MiB + 467.0 KiB = 3.8 MiB bash (3)
3.7 MiB + 278.0 KiB = 3.9 MiB dhclient (2)
3.5 MiB + 569.5 KiB = 4.1 MiB wicd-monitor
3.9 MiB + 646.5 KiB = 4.5 MiB openbox
3.5 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 4.6 MiB leafpad
4.7 MiB + 542.5 KiB = 5.2 MiB wicd
4.3 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 5.4 MiB lilyterm
6.7 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 8.2 MiB spacefm
8.1 MiB + 1.5 MiB = 9.6 MiB ROX-Filer
10.4 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 12.2 MiB Xorg
10.9 MiB + 2.1 MiB = 13.0 MiB wicd-client
75.5 MiB + 1.6 MiB = 77.1 MiB soffice.bin
183.4 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 185.2 MiB seamonkey
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
I don't need 1GB as well, 200 MB here. Managing a distro weight i see the same as selecting the proper food for feeding.
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nili ~ $ ps_mem
Private + Shared = RAM used Program
184.0 KiB + 81.5 KiB = 265.5 KiB startx
172.0 KiB + 170.5 KiB = 342.5 KiB xinit
488.0 KiB + 176.0 KiB = 664.0 KiB systemd-journald
604.0 KiB + 166.0 KiB = 770.0 KiB conky
764.0 KiB + 164.5 KiB = 928.5 KiB systemd-logind
668.0 KiB + 298.5 KiB = 966.5 KiB login
788.0 KiB + 258.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB dbus-daemon
900.0 KiB + 352.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB sudo
1.0 MiB + 207.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB systemd-udevd
1.0 MiB + 801.5 KiB = 1.8 MiB spectrwm
1.5 MiB + 409.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB bash
1.9 MiB + 228.0 KiB = 2.1 MiB systemd
5.9 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 7.0 MiB urxvt
4.8 MiB + 4.4 MiB = 9.2 MiB spacefm
9.8 MiB + 5.4 MiB = 15.1 MiB Xorg
13.5 MiB + 4.2 MiB = 17.7 MiB deadbeef-gtkui
44.9 MiB + 5.6 MiB = 50.6 MiB mpv
81.1 MiB + 4.2 MiB = 85.2 MiB palemoon
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
I think I will stick with what I have,.. 749mb, used when 2 browsers and a few
tabs,.... and other things running in the background,....
It goes up a little (776 mb ) with my pacman game running on Dosbox.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
With my normal daily complement of software:
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russel@u55a:~$ sudo ps_mem.py
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Private + Shared = RAM used Program
132.0 KiB + 20.5 KiB = 152.5 KiB minissdpd
140.0 KiB + 33.5 KiB = 173.5 KiB cat
164.0 KiB + 35.0 KiB = 199.0 KiB gnome-pty-helper
188.0 KiB + 26.0 KiB = 214.0 KiB acpid
224.0 KiB + 17.0 KiB = 241.0 KiB start-pulseaudi
196.0 KiB + 50.5 KiB = 246.5 KiB atd
256.0 KiB + 37.0 KiB = 293.0 KiB agetty
168.0 KiB + 133.5 KiB = 301.5 KiB rdnssd (2)
300.0 KiB + 60.5 KiB = 360.5 KiB rtkit-daemon
260.0 KiB + 100.5 KiB = 360.5 KiB rpc.idmapd
324.0 KiB + 76.0 KiB = 400.0 KiB cron
316.0 KiB + 89.0 KiB = 405.0 KiB dbus-launch
388.0 KiB + 71.5 KiB = 459.5 KiB systemd-timesyncd
528.0 KiB + 18.5 KiB = 546.5 KiB ssh-agent
512.0 KiB + 82.5 KiB = 594.5 KiB xprop
456.0 KiB + 160.0 KiB = 616.0 KiB rpcbind
676.0 KiB + 113.0 KiB = 789.0 KiB dconf-service
648.0 KiB + 162.0 KiB = 810.0 KiB rpc.statd
640.0 KiB + 189.0 KiB = 829.0 KiB at-spi-bus-launcher
748.0 KiB + 105.0 KiB = 853.0 KiB dnsmasq
796.0 KiB + 61.0 KiB = 857.0 KiB systemd-logind
372.0 KiB + 534.0 KiB = 906.0 KiB avahi-daemon (2)
672.0 KiB + 235.0 KiB = 907.0 KiB gconfd-2
716.0 KiB + 219.0 KiB = 935.0 KiB at-spi2-registryd
812.0 KiB + 173.0 KiB = 985.0 KiB gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
788.0 KiB + 222.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB gvfsd
792.0 KiB + 226.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB gvfs-goa-volume-monitor
808.0 KiB + 227.0 KiB = 1.0 MiB gvfsd-burn
992.0 KiB + 83.5 KiB = 1.1 MiB htop
1.0 MiB + 129.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB tmux
1.1 MiB + 76.5 KiB = 1.2 MiB bluetoothd
988.0 KiB + 246.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB gvfsd-trash
1.0 MiB + 183.0 KiB = 1.2 MiB gvfsd-fuse
1.1 MiB + 206.5 KiB = 1.3 MiB gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
1.3 MiB + 96.0 KiB = 1.4 MiB exim4
1.1 MiB + 348.5 KiB = 1.4 MiB gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
1.4 MiB + 266.5 KiB = 1.6 MiB gdm3
1.4 MiB + 211.0 KiB = 1.6 MiB gvfsd-metadata
1.3 MiB + 365.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB zeitgeist-daemon
1.3 MiB + 416.5 KiB = 1.7 MiB sshd
1.5 MiB + 170.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB accounts-daemon
1.3 MiB + 385.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
1.3 MiB + 435.0 KiB = 1.7 MiB upowerd
1.2 MiB + 788.0 KiB = 1.9 MiB sudo (2)
1.8 MiB + 93.5 KiB = 1.9 MiB systemd-udevd
1.9 MiB + 76.5 KiB = 2.0 MiB rsyslogd
1.7 MiB + 345.5 KiB = 2.1 MiB udisksd
1.5 MiB + 594.0 KiB = 2.1 MiB gsd-printer
1.8 MiB + 386.5 KiB = 2.2 MiB gnome-keyring-daemon
1.6 MiB + 584.0 KiB = 2.2 MiB openvpn
1.8 MiB + 566.5 KiB = 2.4 MiB x-session-manag
2.1 MiB + 378.0 KiB = 2.5 MiB gdm-session-worker
2.4 MiB + 165.5 KiB = 2.6 MiB polkitd
2.2 MiB + 565.0 KiB = 2.7 MiB tracker-miner-user-guides
2.3 MiB + 591.5 KiB = 2.8 MiB wpa_supplicant
1.9 MiB + 981.5 KiB = 2.9 MiB mission-control-5
2.0 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 3.1 MiB (sd-pam) (2)
2.7 MiB + 647.0 KiB = 3.3 MiB tracker-miner-apps
2.7 MiB + 652.0 KiB = 3.4 MiB dbus-daemon (3)
3.0 MiB + 353.0 KiB = 3.4 MiB ModemManager
2.8 MiB + 829.0 KiB = 3.6 MiB zeitgeist-datahub
2.1 MiB + 1.7 MiB = 3.7 MiB systemd (3)
3.5 MiB + 620.5 KiB = 4.1 MiB packagekitd
3.0 MiB + 1.3 MiB = 4.3 MiB gnome-shell-calendar-server
3.8 MiB + 896.0 KiB = 4.7 MiB NetworkManager
3.3 MiB + 1.8 MiB = 5.1 MiB evolution-source-registry
4.7 MiB + 530.5 KiB = 5.2 MiB colord
6.3 MiB + 61.0 KiB = 6.4 MiB systemd-journald
6.8 MiB + 603.5 KiB = 7.4 MiB zeitgeist-fts
4.8 MiB + 3.0 MiB = 7.7 MiB pulseaudio (2)
5.4 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 7.7 MiB nm-applet
8.4 MiB + 39.5 KiB = 8.4 MiB dhclient
7.3 MiB + 1.1 MiB = 8.5 MiB tracker-miner-fs
8.0 MiB + 1.2 MiB = 9.2 MiB bash (4)
7.1 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 9.4 MiB gnome-terminal-server
5.6 MiB + 4.5 MiB = 10.2 MiB goa-daemon
10.8 MiB + 549.0 KiB = 11.3 MiB tracker-store
10.5 MiB + 2.3 MiB = 12.8 MiB applet.py
10.8 MiB + 3.1 MiB = 13.8 MiB gnome-settings-daemon
13.9 MiB + 2.8 MiB = 16.8 MiB Xorg
14.1 MiB + 3.9 MiB = 18.1 MiB nautilus
11.3 MiB + 7.5 MiB = 18.8 MiB evolution-alarm-notify
28.4 MiB + 3.5 MiB = 31.9 MiB transmission-gtk
37.9 MiB + 3.2 MiB = 41.1 MiB evolution-calendar-factory
102.1 MiB + 3.3 MiB = 105.4 MiB tracker-extract
145.6 MiB + 7.2 MiB = 152.8 MiB gnome-shell
349.7 MiB + 6.3 MiB = 356.0 MiB firefox-esr
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
I opened Kodi,
Now it says, 2,0 GB
subir imagenes
i think, you can see 4Gb is required, otherwise is tring to survive
Now it says, 2,0 GB
subir imagenes
i think, you can see 4Gb is required, otherwise is tring to survive
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
Its just one tab, others are its own processwizard10000 wrote:Internet browser with at least five tabs open, which is taking up almost half the RAM you're using.bester69 wrote:1,7Gb just with Internet browser opened
I always pick ultimate tools, shutter its most complete in this task.shutter is taking up a buncha RAM, why not kill it if it's not needed? IIRC shutter minimizes to the tray by default when you close it; if you're running KDE perhaps you'd get a little better performance out of spectacle? Not clear why you're running a GTK screenshot app when KDE has one that works perfectly well
I also disble baloo, but not kontact(akonadi), this is best feature among distros, Im using Guake insteed Yakuake, i dont remember why, i picked Guake.I don't use any KDE PIM apps so akonadi is disabled on my machine. I also don't use baloo, finding it a waste of disk space and processor cycles. On my own Plasma 5 installation (I run Sid) KDE uses about exactly 400mb of RAM at idle; the only thing in autostart is yakuake. I run a saved session with conky in it because Plasma 5.8 and later refuse to autostart conky so I use a workaround. I almost never see > 1GB of RAM used, but I close tabs I'm not using
I remember KDE uses around 650MB not 400M at idle withoout akonadi, with akonadi rises to 950 or so, that with Chrome (one tab plus extensions) its around 1,5 GB, if you open some more apps (libreoffice, kate, okular) and some more tabs, it rise > 2Gb easilly, so its neccesary at least 4GB, cos you cant install 3Gb.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
Years ago I doubled my memory and noticed no change at all. Computer processing requires a combination of parts working together. Real improvement may require a completely different combination of parts. There is no silver bullet.
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If the user wants to go to stupidly "heavy" sites such as the HuffPo, those will bog down most older machines due to the rendering required. They aren't interested in users with slower hardware. No matter how efficient the base system, the browser still is going have to use a lot of CPU cycles to render that page.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
I won't put up my average system RAM consumption because I'm aware I've been fumbling with it and for sure there are a lot of processes running that should not be there, just putting weight on it.
What I usually try - and have been trying since I became more comfortable with tweaking my systems - is to find how low can I get on system resources and still have a working system for the average user.
But personally, as soon as I can get a machine for my single use, I'm going for the most streamlined system I can get built on openbox (I'm partial towards it) and try to get my power user badge.
Someone once nicknamed your system a frankendebian and I'm finding myself agreeing more and more with the title. With all the messing around you do to it, atop the odd user habits you have (I can't see the use for having more than two or three tabs in my web browser at the same time, and that is including Youtube, Codecademy and the eventual Wikipedia page or some forum or Facebook) it's easy to understand why you complain about having your system constantly bogging down.
I'm presently running on 4GB of RAM and after a quick check on it, I'm using about 1GB. Before I had the 4GB chip in the system, I was doing well with only half the memory and considering my system does not have a dedicated graphics card, I was doing very well. Except for the more resource hungry program (Minetest, Unknown Horizons, GIMP and Shotwell) my system was pretty snappy and functional. I added the extra memory for comfort, not extreme need; I could very well reconfigure the machine to a lighter DE (I'm using MATE), replace some programs with lighter alternatives (or even go without them) and put the system on a diet to squeeze more out of it. But then I would be trampling on the comfort of my family that also uses this machine.
The amount of memory in a system is directly tied to the needs of the users.
What I usually try - and have been trying since I became more comfortable with tweaking my systems - is to find how low can I get on system resources and still have a working system for the average user.
But personally, as soon as I can get a machine for my single use, I'm going for the most streamlined system I can get built on openbox (I'm partial towards it) and try to get my power user badge.
Someone once nicknamed your system a frankendebian and I'm finding myself agreeing more and more with the title. With all the messing around you do to it, atop the odd user habits you have (I can't see the use for having more than two or three tabs in my web browser at the same time, and that is including Youtube, Codecademy and the eventual Wikipedia page or some forum or Facebook) it's easy to understand why you complain about having your system constantly bogging down.
I'm presently running on 4GB of RAM and after a quick check on it, I'm using about 1GB. Before I had the 4GB chip in the system, I was doing well with only half the memory and considering my system does not have a dedicated graphics card, I was doing very well. Except for the more resource hungry program (Minetest, Unknown Horizons, GIMP and Shotwell) my system was pretty snappy and functional. I added the extra memory for comfort, not extreme need; I could very well reconfigure the machine to a lighter DE (I'm using MATE), replace some programs with lighter alternatives (or even go without them) and put the system on a diet to squeeze more out of it. But then I would be trampling on the comfort of my family that also uses this machine.
The amount of memory in a system is directly tied to the needs of the users.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
eh .. 2GB on laptop .. 6 days uptime (heavy user)
using 995MB (and 206MB in 4GB-swap) .. chromium (six tabs), firefox (three tabs), rtorrent, moc (streaming radio), mpv (movie-paused), htop, ranger and xterm open
.. don't think I need more ..
using 995MB (and 206MB in 4GB-swap) .. chromium (six tabs), firefox (three tabs), rtorrent, moc (streaming radio), mpv (movie-paused), htop, ranger and xterm open
.. don't think I need more ..
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
I wish my browser only used 50mb a tab. Try facebook, and watch it climb to 1-2gb.
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My browser and tabs running lighter because of those and many others
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I got my feet wet in Debian with the GNOME DE. It was friendly, even more for someone coming from Windows, easy to use, accessible. When it mutated to its present form I was at a loss and turned my back on it.
KDE was always a bit too much on the heavy side for my systems but I did try it for a time but wasn't able to get my liking.
XFCE was my DE for some time but it lacked a few tools I missed from GNOME.
Cinnamon is just not my kind of cake.
Mate brought back the classic GNOME look so I reverted to it. Its comfortable and familiar to use but I still find it a bit green. There are a lot of changes to be made until it can fully distance itself from GNOME. I'm still running it as my present DE, nonetheless.
E17 made me curious enough to give it more than one try and I sincerely think of it as an overlooked desktop in Debian. Had it installed side by side with Mate but I found it strange to have more than one DE coexisting in the same machine to give it a proper evaluation.
Then there is Openbox, to which I am partial to, because I tried a software similar to it when I was a devoted windows user but I lacked the resources (internet access and support/help) to properly learn how to handle it (can't remember the name though but it was I believe in had "box" in its name).
Usability is always on my mind but I like to explore and learn.
You can justly call it that but its fun, at least from the angle of someone trying to learn by exploration. When I came to Linux I was extremely strapped for machine resources and slimming down my OS/DE was a need and that was what sparked the exercise. I had no one to call for help in learning FOSS-Fu.wizard10000 wrote: I am also guilty of this particular form of intellectual masturbation; I have two laptops and a 32-bit netbook and fluxbox is installed on all three. I've found it to be great fun trying to strike that balance between features and efficiency and I still do it to some extent.
I never left that approach. Not being a power user to start with, having a given set of utilities I was capable of using without great risk of fudging (too much) things in the system was a actual need. Also, having another person using the same system I'm using with even less skills than I did/do have made forceful to keep the machine usable to anyone (at least to a certain degree).wizard10000 wrote: But - my mindset has changed a bit in the last six months or so, which is the reason I'm back to KDE on my main machine with fluxbox installed as a backup in case I break KDE. I'm given a fixed set of computer resources; got 8GB of RAM, six or seven of which are just sitting there as disk cache most of the time and unused resources are unneeded resources.
So - my 64-bit Plasma 5 daily driver uses about 400mb of RAM at idle. It takes two seconds longer to get a working desktop than it does on the same machine running fluxbox and once the desktop is running there's not really a meaningful difference in application launch time. Took me 30 years to figure it out, but if I've got the resources I might as well use them
I got my feet wet in Debian with the GNOME DE. It was friendly, even more for someone coming from Windows, easy to use, accessible. When it mutated to its present form I was at a loss and turned my back on it.
KDE was always a bit too much on the heavy side for my systems but I did try it for a time but wasn't able to get my liking.
XFCE was my DE for some time but it lacked a few tools I missed from GNOME.
Cinnamon is just not my kind of cake.
Mate brought back the classic GNOME look so I reverted to it. Its comfortable and familiar to use but I still find it a bit green. There are a lot of changes to be made until it can fully distance itself from GNOME. I'm still running it as my present DE, nonetheless.
E17 made me curious enough to give it more than one try and I sincerely think of it as an overlooked desktop in Debian. Had it installed side by side with Mate but I found it strange to have more than one DE coexisting in the same machine to give it a proper evaluation.
Then there is Openbox, to which I am partial to, because I tried a software similar to it when I was a devoted windows user but I lacked the resources (internet access and support/help) to properly learn how to handle it (can't remember the name though but it was I believe in had "box" in its name).
Usability is always on my mind but I like to explore and learn.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
Hey, bro! Long time no see!vbrummond wrote:I wish my browser only used 50mb a tab. Try facebook, and watch it climb to 1-2gb.
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Re: 4GB RAM minimum for today!
4GB? Eh what?
I'm posting this from firefox in XFCE, and using 350MB RAM. Even that's excessive IMO, but web browsers be greedy.
I'm posting this from firefox in XFCE, and using 350MB RAM. Even that's excessive IMO, but web browsers be greedy.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. Four times is Official GNOME Policy.