[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[Stephen Kraus]

I'm okay with Windows 10, mainly because I have to have access to Autodesk,
but now with the Linux Environment addons and Ubuntu, I have access to Bash
or a Linux desktop without having to bootup HyperV, its by far my favorite
Windows yet.

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:34 AM, BC <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:

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> On 2/9/2018 9:09 AM, Bear Giles wrote:
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> 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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