From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 21 20:31:55 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28A2A534 for ; Thu, 21 May 2015 20:31:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sender1.zohomail.com (sender1.zohomail.com [74.201.84.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 141C013AB for ; Thu, 21 May 2015 20:31:54 +0000 (UTC) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=zapps768; d=zoho.com; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=earmu3LW7AKRb5CNYOyciSFANWg+Yi2L1PtFLek6Iu9nSJPQgihzB8eBYjWSVOUiFWOc6kT2QIMJ c1Kc2r8H5/ougrHOfEdPx+pVDUxoyoiDZ6+VDvOLqIFnWg53yfGy Received: from WorkBox.Home (75-168-135-115.mpls.qwest.net [75.168.135.115]) by mx.zohomail.com with SMTPS id 1432239395513256.37664207180126; Thu, 21 May 2015 13:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 15:16:23 -0500 From: Brandon Wandersee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: End user RAM usage survey Message-ID: <20150521201623.GA44817@WorkBox.Home> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 20:31:55 -0000 Currently have Firefox, Emacs server with two clients, LibreOffice writer, cmus, and a couple shell instances open, while running a port upgrade w/ portmaster, all inside the i3 window manager. I'm at 956 megabytes of RAM used. The only time I break 2 gigabytes is when I have a Windows 7 virtual machine running, since I dedicated 4 gigabytes of RAM to it. My multipurpose server/HTPC is using less than that. I've been using these machines (both laptops with Intel i7 CPUs) for almost four years, and never needed a swap file or partition. The only time I've run out of RAM was when I tried building a huge set of Haskell packages entirely in RAM (I thought it was a good idea at the time, for some reason...) -- ============================================================================= :: Brandon Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@zoho.com :: ============================================================================= "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams =============================================================================