<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>No VMs. Current desktop I built 01/2012. Needs faster disk I/O. I spend about 45 minutes waiting on a compile of software when I do a fresh checkout. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>The reason I said 64GB is because when I was pricing out a workstation on Penguin Computing's website the lowest was 64. Personally, 16 is fine. With 64 though I could copy the source tree into a ramdisk. Luckily I do have a UPS under my desk. :)</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 18, 2015 8:03:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:53:18 -0400 (EDT)<br>Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> wrote:<br><br>> Seems like /. posted a story about 32GB being overkill for desktop<br>> systems. I'm looking at replacing my workstation and the system I'm<br>> looking at has a minimum of 64GB. Am I wasting cash? :) <br><br>How many VMs are you going to be hanging off your workstation, and what<br>will they be running? And how long do you usually go before replacing<br>workstations with more modern machines?<br><br>SteveT<br><br>Steve Litt <br>August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts<br>http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>