<html><head></head><body>Java is wonderful! I'm enjoying a hot cup right now <br><br>Never understood why people wanted to ruin a coffee break with more coding. The internet already ran on coffee. Think not? How long does a sysadmin stay working without coffee. Of course now the younger crowd chugs cans of drugs they call "energy drinks".<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On December 6, 2020 2:16:22 PM EST, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I've always assumed that Linux should have a minimum of 16G. HOWEVER,<br>with your comment I see that even my desktop with LOTS of open windows<br>is using only 4G plus buffers and cache.<br><br>I guess that 8G is enough. I don't do Java on the laptop and rarely on<br>the desktop. (I don't have a high opinion of Java.)<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 01:14:01PM -0500, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On 12/6/20 12:44 PM, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">My main use is browsing, text email, and watching DVDs. (I realize that<br>I'll have to buy an external USB DVD burner.)<br></blockquote><br>Or just rip the DVDs on a desktop to avoid carrying more crap.<br><br>Have to ask, what sort of Java programming are you doing where 8G isn't sufficient? I've not had issues with any other languages with that amount and running a few VMs concurrently. But with Java, I wonder whether 64G of RAM is sufficient.<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>