On 30/09/2020 18:18,
John PNZ wrote:
> 70 tabs open
I most definitely consider this as extreme use.
Not sure I would - or at least, not /that/ far beyond
what I would consider normal either.
I certainly have 20-30 tabs open for work at any given
time, and 4Gb didn't cut that at all. Open up 3 or 4 tabs
of prtg to check different stats for a machine, for
example, and the swapping would soon begin! That Windows
machine kept struggling beyond 16Gb. (Not that the OS is
particularly relevant here). I now have 20G which works
just dandy.
Ram is cheap. My time isn't. Waiting even an extra half
second, multiple hundreds or thousands of times a day, can
get expensive and even the most rudimentary time and
motion study suggests it's worth throwing a little memory
at the problem - even before you look too deeply at the
mental interruption even the blip of transient frustration
at delay can cause. On top of that, two IM desktop
clients, Outlook, maybe a spreadsheet or two. Notepad++
with a bajillion tabs open, Editplus with a similar number
of scripts being edited.
You could argue it is a user issue, and that my
workflow is particularly extreme like Eion's. You could
say that it's better for me to close tabs instead of
leaving them idle. All of that is a reasonable thing to
argue. And I would argue, just as reasonably, that my
workflow works best for me and that I'm more productive
for it. Different users have different issues.
"My" machines total 96Gb. That does actually sound like
a lot. Let's not count the others that aren't solely for
my use, especially those big database servers...
Work vm = 20.
Work laptop = 24.
Home desktop = 32 (I was feeling generous to myself)
Home laptop = 8
Home debian server = 12
