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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

This is very unfortunate, about a year ago I built my PC and only put in 32 GB of Ram, It was double I had on my laptop so I thought it should be enough for the beginning and I could buy more later.

Already after 2 months I realizes I can do so much more because of the fast CPU in parallel but suddenly the amount of RAM became the bottleneck. When I looked at the RAM prices it didn't seem quite worth it and I waited. But that backfired because since then the prices never went down, only up.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 38 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

What are you running that needs more than 32Gb? I'm only just barely being bottlenecked by my 24Gb when running games at 4k

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Two browsers full of tabs but that is not a problem, but once I start compiling AOSP (which I sometimes want to do for work at home instead in the cloud because it's easier and faster to debugg) then it eats up all the RAM imediatelly and I have to give it 40 more GB or swap and then this swapping is the bottleneck. Once that is running the computer can't really do anything else, even the browser struggles.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried just compiling it with fewer threads? Would almost certainly reduce the RAM usage, and might even make the compile go faster if it you're needing to swap that heavily

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that's what I'm doing but I played for the fast CPU and can't make it the bottleneck ^^

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