Is 2gib of ram the perfect comfy amount for work and everyday use?

Is 2gib of ram the perfect comfy amount for work and everyday use?

Is it too much? I dont like falling for memes.

I would personally go for 4 but it all depends on what you need to do.

2 GB might be ok if you run a 32-bit OS and only run older software that wasn't as RAM heavy. You definitely want an OS that supports RAM compression. And use an SSD so if you hit the page file, it isn't extremely painful.

Ram is cheap, you can afford 4 gib

>implying that burger is healther than ja/ck's

does your work involve browsing the web? if so, 4GB minimum, 8GB if you want your OS to cache and be fast at multitasking

kys

>work and everyday use

That means nothing. I'd say 2GB is the bare minimum for the os and 1-2 webpages at once. Get at least 4GB if you're that cheap.

Depends on what you're doing.

I am currently in the process of writing an e-mail to a collaborator explaining that the thing they were trying (and failing) to do on their dinky 32GB-of-RAM workstation actually requires something at least on the order of ~256GB.

2 gib is a little too much
512mib is what I recommend, every one else here are just retards

What are they doing?

what kind of JS-encrusted abominations do you browse? I can handle that with 128 MB, I regularly do 5-10 on 512 /with/ JS on

This

I use tails and have no issue

2 GB RAM sticks cost almost as much as 4 GB these days. Not even kidding, look it up. The manufacture cost isn't even worth it.

you're a big guy

nytimes dat cawm.

The page fault count rises.

Literally can't even OPEN a browser on 2gb, let alone browse anything.
0/10, see me after class.

WTF crackhead bloated OS and browser are you running? I've got netbooks with 2 GB RAM and they run fine.

> Using a shit browser

Are you retarded?

Yeah, "fine". it merely takes 5 minutes to open notepad and it merely stops responding if more than 3 programs are open at once. Also there are spikes where it stops responding every so often either way.
"fine".

De novo assembly of some fungal genomes.

Basically I was told they tried running it on their laptop but it failed. At first they thought it was because of the memory requirements so they tried it on their 32GB machine, but they got the same problem there, so the problem is probably something else and could I please help?

Now I feel like in that pic as I type my reply.

She has more makeup on her than a clown, doesn't look very healthy.

So they're mapping out genomes?
Thats preocessor intensive

"""malware"""

anything above 512MB is meme

512KB*
FTFY

But all of that is demonstrably false, barring extraneous circumstances like you having a bloated environment due to severe retardation.

You can run a copy of Windows 7 and Chrome with 5-6 tabs open on 1GB of RAM just fine. Make a virtual machine and try it out if you don't believe me.

I did and it didn't work. Retard.

I had one of those soy veggie burgers once

My biggest regret

that looks more like a pixelated image and you're still autistic

...

I did and it did work. No idea what you're on about.

They're assembling genomes. It's primarily memory-intensive as the algorithms used for assembling short reads (which are the current standard and what they have) depend on enormous De Bruijin graphs.

Overlap-graph-based algorithms are more computationally intensive and less memory intensive, but are only really usable for long reads that were in use a decade ago and are slowly re-emerging right now as the PacBio platform proliferates and becomes cheaper.

Still, short-reads and memory-intensive algorithms are currently king.

2 GiB is the bare minimum to run GUI stuff these days.

I'm sure it did for you shlomo.

Is there any reason not to go for 4GB? They cost almost exactly the same.

*De Bruijn

8gb is pretty much the standard nowadays if you're not fucking around
if you had 4gb i wouldn't really gaf but 2?
2?
No.
4.

Couldn't you just use a PCI SSD or something as a gigantic swap file?

I remember how powerful I felt when I upgraded from 16MB to 32MB.

Way too slow

If you're building a new computer, not really. You might as well get 8 gigs too for like 15 bucks more.

It might be feasible but would be much slower.

I just use my 1TB machine and will be upgrading to 2TB later this year.

thinking of getting a new laptop soon

if I want to run windows in virtualbox what are the minimum specs I need? Will a cheap ass $150 celeron from walmart be enough?

I use my desktop for real shit but want a computer for taking outside and such.

32GB is the absolute bare minimum these days, if you got anything less, you're retarded and wont even be able to run LXDE. I have 64GB, but I should probably upgrade to 128GB.

windows in virtualbox on ubuntu

In canuckistan, 4 GB = 20, 8 GB = 50. Generally speaking.

Don't bother trying to run on 1-2 GB RAM if you're too stupid to reduce bloat/clutter.

Will work. How well it works depends on how much RAM you'll spare for the VM.

what year was this

U U U U

If you're too poor to get 16, just kill yourself already.

whatever you say, lads

Nice try retard, nice try

I had hidden the Sup Forums window there

Griffith did nothing wrong.

Anything less than 16 is pathetic.

>medium rare
>not superior well done
Why even clock it at all americucks?

I'm running a 64bit manjaro install on 2gb and it's functional but not ideal

Not him but probably 1997

Do they even make 2GB sticks of DDR4?

Why would you not have 16 gib?

8 GB of ram costs less than 40 dollars

Why do people who unnecessarily crutch themselves exist

You will literally save 10 dollars by getting less ram, all the while limiting multitasking to 2 notepad files and a web browser

JUST why

that's not medium rare, it's raw

Yeah it was late 1997.

I was 10 years old.

You can get 8gb for fucking $30. Why get less?

>I just use my 1TB machine and will be upgrading to 2TB later this year.
how many tabs can you open in firefox?

I use 2GiB for my chromebook with ubuntu, and it's pretty alright even using pycharm

wtf are this threads, just causal shitposting or do i miss something?

but 2*4 = 8
buy two sticks of 4Gb, you get 8 for 20

2 is too little to be truly comfortable now, particularly since web pages and browsers became retardedly fat sometime after Firefox started its rapid versioning scheme.
although, if all you do is browse Sup Forums, this site is actually surprisingly light, unless you're browsing a gigantic 1000+ post rolling sticky, and you could do shitposting, music listening, and a bit of coding even on a 1GB machine

4GB is good in general, and RAM is cheap enough that it won't tickle your wallet. It'll satisfy most people's use of the machine completely.

I had 6GB RAM on another machine, but I didn't really have situations where I'd need it other than if I wanted to allocate like 2-3GB RAM to a VM, eventually I swapped the 4GB stick out to add more RAM to a slower one with only 2GB, making them both have 4GB.

>512mib is what I recommend
from like 2001 to 2008, I pretty much stood by this
and then my old PIII laptop died, and I discovered the joys of having more RAM

I made that poor machine choke though, I'd have like 30+ tabs open and it'd be downloading something and I even had a tiny Linux VM (it was tiny because I had like no disk space left, shit only had a 10GB HDD) running

best girl

what do you mean by comfy? the comfiest amount of ram, for me, is the largest amount of ram you can get. you know what's comfy? not having to wait for a window to render while your OS is fetching pages from the hard drive or having to close tabs because your browser is getting slow

This, I have a 2gb netbook which runs, but if I go overboard it will hit the limit and crash firefox, it's also limited to 32bit because lol intel atoms.

The coreM 4gb ram thingie I have is far more bearable, pity about the inverse battery life on these two machines.

8GB is barely enough for me.