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Hexorg Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Oct 2009 Posts: 116
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject: What can I spend my RAM on? |
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Hello everyone, so I have 8Gb of RAM. Currently, with GNOME, Firefox, Eclipse, GIMP, and a few background chat apps, I use 1.0Gb. So is there an automatic option to cache frequently used programs into RAM (I think that's what macs do)? Or maybe any other usage for the RAM that I don't know of? How do you use extra RAM?
P.S. I have /var/tmp/portage in tmpfs, but that only uses when I update stuff.
P.P.S I also saw that you could mound most of the root ( / ) to the tmpfs, which sounds fun. |
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John R. Graham Administrator
Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 10589 Location: Somewhere over Atlanta, Georgia
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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The system automatically is spending your RAM on disk cache. That's what the "cached" number on the swap space line in "top" is telling you.
- John _________________ I can confirm that I have received between 0 and 499 National Security Letters. |
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aCOSwt Bodhisattva
Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 2537 Location: Hilbert space
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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If you oversized your RAM that much... could well be that your processor is oversized similarly...
In which case... please... don't hesitate a second : Install sci-misc/boinc _________________
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Hexorg Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Oct 2009 Posts: 116
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Actually I am using boinc for folding@home and lhc@home (Test4Theory) |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 6:14 am Post subject: |
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tmpfs for portage emerge when the wife isn't using windows img (which has 10gb of ram allocated). _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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