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As a normal, boring user that does nothing special other than browse the internet and the occasional "casual coding" -- what am I supposed to do with 32GiB of ram? (self.linux)

submitted 9 months ago by GustavoM to c/[email protected]

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Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.

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[–] GustavoM 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Does it improve performance in any way? Seems a bit obvious, but I'll ask anyways for the sake of curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

yes.

[–] Acters 4 points 9 months ago

Yes, and if you have an ssd, it will decrease the amount of usage that the limited(albeit ridiculously high) read/write cycles the ssd is capable of. However, it is unlikely you will hit those limits with that kind of usage, lol

Also, memory is faster always, but your usage is negligible. You can disable swap(linux/mac) or page file(windows) to force memory to be used, and your drive is used less. Firefox can be configured to disable disk cache and increase ram cache. Also, it will be noted that this cache is marked as temporary ram cache. any application that needs more ram can delete the temp cache for usage(dynamic ram usage)

But that's it. The best thing to do is live your life and be happy that you are future proofed for any task that may arise.