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NickFitz replied

20 December 2011, 17:01
Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post

True but it did crash

Indeed: http://apollo11.spacelog.org/04:06:4...og-line-369737
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Halo Jones replied

20 December 2011, 16:24
Originally posted by SimonMac View Post

Apollo 11 only needed 3 bits of RAM!

True but it did crash
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FiveTimes replied

20 December 2011, 16:03
Laptop is current running with 8Gb and its fine. Desktop is running 3Gb but that doesnt get used that much.
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SimonMac replied

20 December 2011, 16:00
Originally posted by zeitghost

More than 640k is greedy.

Apollo 11 only needed 3 bits of RAM!
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Stella replied

20 December 2011, 15:45
16GB here and fine. Don't play many games though - probably need more if I did. Fine for watching movies.
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Scrag Meister replied

20 December 2011, 15:29
32 bit Windows 7 Max = 4Gb
64 bit Windows 7 Max = 8Gb-192Gb depending on version.
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OwlHoot replied

20 December 2011, 15:21
Originally posted by doodab View Post

I'm struggling with "only" 16GB of RAM here. How much do you have in your primary workstation?

As much as I can; but many motherboards support only up to about 16 GB, and I think Windows 7 has an upper limit too.

What is the threshold these days before memory refresh cycles start dragging down CPU performance?
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darmstadt replied

20 December 2011, 15:15
Well my workstation has a whole 2GB of memory (runs Ubuntu) but I don't really use it that heavy. My other interactive sessions of which I have a load each have 4mb of storage (but I can run a lot of stuff in virtual storage using more than 32GB if I require) which is sufficient and those systems have storage ranging from 10GB up to over 200GB
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Bunk replied

20 December 2011, 15:06
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Specifically in General?

Of course. This is the last place for that sort of discussion.

Back to the
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NickFitz replied

20 December 2011, 15:03
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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Bunk replied

20 December 2011, 14:53
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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gingerjedi replied

20 December 2011, 14:47
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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doodab replied

20 December 2011, 14:10
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.
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Spacecadet replied

20 December 2011, 14:01
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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doodab replied

20 December 2011, 13:56
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.
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