From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Feb 26 07:37:30 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36694150ED12 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 423C3701EB for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x1Q7axtB074780 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:37:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: mini-laptop / netbook for FreeBSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20190225143831.GA11653@sh4-5.1blu.de> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: <74748c54-38bd-7df7-19a1-2fbf56045cbb@netfence.it> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:36:59 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 423C3701EB X-Spamd-Bar: +++ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [3.46 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.15)[ip: (0.51), ipnet: 2.44.0.0/16(0.25), asn: 30722(-0.07), country: IT(0.05)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.95)[0.953,0]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.99)[0.989,0]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it,mx.netfence.it]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.48)[0.480,0]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[netfence.it]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:37:30 -0000 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.