How is it 2025 and people still don’t understand how RAM works?
If you’ve got 64GB of RAM, ideally you want to be using nearly all of that 64GB at all times.
I also have 64, but I’ve seen up to 34 in use a couple times. I could have stayed with 48gb, but the timings/cas latency was much better on the 64gb kit, than running mismatched sizes across 4 slots
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 3 weeks ago
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Explain why.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Unused RAM is wasted RAM.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
How does it follow then that one should use nearly all of it at all times? Sometimes I need all the memory, sometimes I don’t. Sure, I don’t get the benefit all the time. Same as I don’t have four passengers in my car at all times.
raldone01@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
On any modern os unused ram is ot simply unused. It is used for caching files and other stuff. So more ram can provide significant performance improvements for some taks even if “unused”.
Cort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not like I’m manually clearing things out of the ram. And before the power outage last weekend I had an up-time over 2 months.
It’s there a way to have the OS utilize more?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just remembered I did use up to 63GB once. Thanks memory leak.