I had one stick of 16GB and it was not enough. I was going to get a second stick, but said screw it and got two 32GB (it’s a laptop and only has two slots).
How does that even happen 💀💀 I have 2x8gb, usually have teams open, Firefox, telegram, a virtual machine with windows 10, a few IDEs and it usually only takes 10-12gb max mostly due to the vm requiring flat 8 gigs
This is probably down to decimal versus binary unit prefixes. As far as I’m aware, RAM is almost always still power of two kibi-, mebi- or gibibytes, unlike more permanent storage, and it often gets the kilo-, mega- and giga- prefixes regardless.
In other words, if you mix up thousands and 1024s you can get 64×1024×1024×1000 (whoops) which is roughly 67 billion.
Solution: if you only have 4GB ram, nothing can use more than 4GB
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I had one stick of 16GB and it was not enough. I was going to get a second stick, but said screw it and got two 32GB (it’s a laptop and only has two slots).
How does that even happen 💀💀 I have 2x8gb, usually have teams open, Firefox, telegram, a virtual machine with windows 10, a few IDEs and it usually only takes 10-12gb max mostly due to the vm requiring flat 8 gigs
I dunno but the extra RAM was like a night and day difference.
How does 2 x 32 GB sticks give you 67 GB of RAM? Did you download more RAM?
This is probably down to decimal versus binary unit prefixes. As far as I’m aware, RAM is almost always still power of two kibi-, mebi- or gibibytes, unlike more permanent storage, and it often gets the kilo-, mega- and giga- prefixes regardless.
In other words, if you mix up thousands and 1024s you can get 64×1024×1024×1000 (whoops) which is roughly 67 billion.
This being a laptop, is it possible there’s 4GB soldered plus the 2 DIMM slots? I think I’ve seen something similar on a thinkpad.
Sounds more plausible. Either that or the system is reporting RAM + swap - VRAM reserved memory somehow.
Depends on how much /swap you’ve got.