Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:36:59 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mini-laptop / netbook for FreeBSD Message-ID: <74748c54-38bd-7df7-19a1-2fbf56045cbb@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <MWHPR04MB049598AB1C404745FFCBEC29807A0@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> References: <20190225143831.GA11653@sh4-5.1blu.de> <MWHPR04MB049598AB1C404745FFCBEC29807A0@MWHPR04MB0495.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
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On 2/25/19 4:10 PM, Carmel NY wrote: > Why limit RAM to a measly 4GB? If it is a 64 bit machine, that is like > the bare minimum for it to work. Even my old laptop has 12 GB. My laptop "works" fine (i.e. no paging) with 4GiB: I usually have XFCE, ThunderBird, some FireFox windows with several tabs, several terminals, some LibreOffice sheet, audacity, maybe okular. My desktop does the same: with 4GiB I occasionally had heavy swapping due to FireFox when I visited some "evily written" sites. I upgraded to 8GiB because I had the DIMM around, but still seldomly use that amount. Of course, YMMV. bye av.
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