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    How much is too much

    I'm struggling with "only" 16GB of RAM here. How much do you have in your primary workstation?
    18
    <4GB, I'm cheap
    16.67%
    3
    4-8GB, I'm a lightweight
    27.78%
    5
    8-16GB, it was cheap
    27.78%
    5
    >16GB and I use every drop
    5.56%
    1
    I'm too busy ramming AndyW's mum
    22.22%
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    While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

    #2
    I remember my first PC had 200MB - of disk....

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      #3
      Bit of a poll fail, dd, what option do I choose if I have exactly 8??

      What the flip are you running anyway to have issues with 16Gb?
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        #4
        Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
        Bit of a poll fail, dd, what option do I choose if I have exactly 8??

        What the flip are you running anyway to have issues with 16Gb?
        Ooh, good spot on the overlap there.

        I'm running VMWare with 1 VM that needs about 8GB and another that needs 6, plus web browser clients on the local machine. Time for an upgrade, those 8GB DIMMS are < £100 now. Only problem is I need a new CPU and motherboard as well.
        While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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          #5
          Originally posted by doodab View Post
          I'm running VMWare with 1 VM that needs about 8GB and another that needs 6, plus web browser clients on the local machine. Time for an upgrade, those 8GB DIMMS are < £100 now. Only problem is I need a new CPU and motherboard as well.
          So effectively you have 1 machine with 8GB, 1 with 6GB and another with 2GB

          Do both your VM's need all the RAM all the time? I thought the host should be able to dynamically allocate RAM as and when it was required
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            #6
            Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post
            Do both your VM's need all the RAM all the time? I thought the host should be able to dynamically allocate RAM as and when it was required
            Yes, pretty much, as they are 2 parts of the same system so a request propagates via the 6GB one to the 8GB one then back through the 6GB one and finally to the client, so RAM allocation moving back and forth means it takes a while to do anything, and it's not exactly speedy anyway.

            It's total bloatware.Not my doing I'd like to add.

            I think I'm going to have to split the work over a couple of machines. I'll shift one of the VMs on to my laptop.
            While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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              #7
              Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
              Bit of a poll fail, dd, what option do I choose if I have exactly 8??

              What the flip are you running anyway to have issues with 16Gb?
              You have 8192MB so thats > than 8GB.
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                #8
                Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                You have 8192MB so thats > than 8GB.
                Let's not get into gigabytes and gibibytes in General shall we?

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Bunk View Post
                  Let's not get into gigabytes and gibibytes in General shall we?
                  Specifically in General?

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
                    Specifically in General?
                    Of course. This is the last place for that sort of discussion.

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