[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[BC]

On 2/9/2018 9:09 AM, Bear Giles wrote:
> For what it's worth my year-old mid-level Dell Optiplex (7030) 
> supports up to 64 GB and an (mumble) drive - the one that's on a 
> small daughterboard. The small form factor system itself was under 
> $1k, and the disk and extra 32GB of memory (46 GB total) added 
> another $500. I wish I could have gotten the system without the 
> windows disk though. :-(
>
> Chromium still manages to consume all of the memory.

Is Chromium the Linux version of Chrome that runs on Windows boxes? 
How can it consume all the memory?

For curiosity sake...  Two years ago, I built a Supermicro mobo + Xeon 
+ 64GiB ECC RAM box for about $1300 including new case and mirrored 
500GiB Samsung SSD drives.  Running Win10 :(, required for now due to 
some software I need to use.  It is the first computer I've had where 
I can't outrun the type ahead buffer, even with 5 VMs running, 50 tabs 
open in the browser, video rendering going on, yada.  The most memory 
I've consumed running is around 45GiB.  The CPU cores are rarely 
saturated.

I'll not go back to a non-Xeon environment.

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