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On 30/09/2020 18:18, John PNZ wrote: > I merely describe my experience. I'm quite happy in 1GB on a headless > LAMP server, but with a gui (xcfe) on a laptop and tasks open across > the Internet I feel less constrained if I have 16GB. Here's a snapshot > of my present state - https://pastebin.com/1cgP36rC - and that's 10GB > of core memory in use by anyone's estimation. What I do on a smaller > machine is close tasks, restart tasks, and tolerate occasional slow > moments. I prefer not to. > > I can see Mint Ulyana, Brave and Firefox, 70 tabs open, calibre, an > assortment of libreoffice jobs, gftp, hexchat, a few terminals. > Nothing extreme. Firefox has several thousand bookmarks and the > history may go back a couple of months. The only extensions are the > standards: NoScript and UBlock. > > I stand by my advice, though at £400-500 I can see some might prefer > to pare it down. On the other hand it's good for ten years, in my > estimation, a pound a week, and I've kept machines in use that long > before. It's less money than an Internet connection. > > > > > On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 17:23, comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 29/09/2020 18:32, John PNZ wrote: >>> I've tried 4GB machines with linux, with Windows 10, with android, and >>> if you go beyond a dozen tabs or a day's browsing you slow to a crawl. >>> It's not a processor issue, it's a memory issue. >> >> Counterpoint: it's not a memory issue, it's a user issue. >> >>> If anyone here has had a better experience on 4GB I'd be interested in a >>> description. >> >> Literally everyone does - I've had and still have thousands of users >> with 4Gb (or less) RAM machines doing actual work all day long. >> >> If a random user rocks up and tells me in all seriousness that their >> casual daily web browsing habits with just a few tabs open is too much >> for their standard computer - which everyone else is doing much more >> than that on without the same problems - then I'd start trying to figure >> out what that user is doing so differently. Because it's definitely you >> I'm afraid. >> >> Please note I don't doubt you for a second, that would seem a bit >> unfair! I'd take you at face value but there must be something that >> you're doing very differently to everyone else. Any ideas? Are you >> streaming a lot of content or keeping multiple in-browser games or video >> tabs open? 600 page PDFs in the built-in reader? >> >> Maybe something else - what browsers are causing this? Do you install >> specific plugins or extensions or do anything else non-standard? The >> answer is in your habits or working methods because all things being >> equal and taking the opportunity to dust off an old meme: >> >> 4194304K OUGHT TO BE ENOUGH FOR ANYBODY >> >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > 70??? Surely that's a typo? THAT could be exactly your issue, then. A 4GB Chromebook is perfectly good for "normal" surfing and web-based activities. I think 7 would be a quite lot of tabs to have open, but I guess people might do that? -- Kind regards, Mark Smith juglugs.com PGP fingerprint: FE57 FF27 C090 186C BFDE EF8B 9502 6421 F69F 0742
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