Am 18.05.2012 13:25, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
You mention having machines with 16GB RAM. How exactly is this used? I just checked my 2 servers; the one here (I'm in Italy) has 5GB RAM, 4GB of which is free ("Mem: 4829188k total, 847540k used, 3981648k free"). The server in Ireland has 4GB RAM, with 500MB free ("Mem: 3793928k total, 3209440k used, 584488k free")
on servers:
* MySQL with large InnoDB-Buffers (http://www.dbmail.org/) * Web-Applications where you expect more than a few users * Bytecode-Caches and Query-Cache for MySQL * VMware Workstation in Headless-Mode on Homeservers for isolation / testing * VMware ESXi on production hosts * many other services i mentioned before __________________________________
on workstations:
* Eclipse / ZendStudio (it is very happy to have >= 700 MB for it's own) * Desktop * Firefox * Thunderbird * VMware Workstation * OpenOffice * OS-Cache * all the services using in production on serveral veritual machines for testing
half a hour after i started my machine it is using around 3GB active yes, my focus is on heavy use
but for only write some mails and web-brwosing i can not see why 10 seconds more or less are making the difference and as cheaper/slower your hardware is as longer wake up from suspend takes