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1 year ago
[3] · 1 year ago
Not only that but I have a few VMs that I've got various me projects I work in. (Testing on a virtual network) and I know being able to hand a bit more RAM to them would help out. It's not uncommon for me to have a test vm that's running active directory and another vm testing LDAP in Rust stuff. · 1 year ago
@five_over_four Large datasets and Excel spreadsheets. Python and what not makes up some of the goal, but not a huge amount. The spreadsheets are usually a sheet per month, so each book comes with 12. Each sheet can be between 400,000 to 600,000 rows with 30 to 40 columns. It's usually validation (python mostly for that) and fixing formulas in the sheets (hence the having to open them in Excel).
I've got 16GB and with about four of these kinds of books open and nothing else I'm easily hitting swap to keep up. It'd be nice to have all the various ones I receive open plus be able to have emails going. · 1 year ago
what's the goal here? if you just wanna program, you're good on like literally anything. 128gb ram? iunno overkill it on the cpu as well. personally, 5800x is fine. "only" 150 more is literally twice the price! what do you wanna do with it? · 1 year ago
what problem are you trying to solve? · 1 year ago
[2] · 1 year ago
[2] · 1 year ago
Pretty much I need to focus on system RAM as I have really big spreadsheets. Still need to upgrade the CPU though as Python and Rust run super slow on the Ryzen 1600 for some workloads. But RAM is the focus here, it's not unhead for me to have about 3.5GB memory used in just spreadsheets alone.
Current machine is 16GB of RAM and I start hitting swap space about a couple of hours of the way into my freelance work. Would be nice to have everything I need open at once. So I'm aiming for 64GB to 128GB RAM. · 1 year ago