Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: mwilson--- via talk | My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi 4B+ with 8GiB. Neat! | `top` says that swap is full (100MiB), but there's 1.2 GiB of memory | available. I'd be tempted to add swap. But then again, if that is on an SD card, maybe not. I don't know the kernel policies. Or rath

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

Howard Gibson wrote: > I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with > photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to prepare documents, but if I am > sharing info, I use LibreOffice, and the Microsoft office document > formats. > -- > Howard Gibson My main desktop is a Raspberry Pi

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: | > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? | I probably spend too much time on YouTube. I use GIMP to mess with | photographs. I use LaTeX a lot to pr

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 05:18:13PM -0500, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) > "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > > > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > > | > > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > > |GNU/Linux, 16

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:31:08 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > | From: Howard Gibson via talk > | > |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For > |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. > > What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? Hughk

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On 2024-02-19 10:32, Howard Gibson via talk wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. Dead deal:

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

| From: Howard Gibson via talk | |I have long ago given up trying to run computers on 8GB RAM. For |GNU/Linux, 16GB minimum. What tasks to you do that challenge computers with only 8 GiB? For me, it is Firefox with a lot of tabs. I'm sure that some web pages are way more RAM-intensi

Re: [GTALUG] War Story: adding RAM to a laptop can increase the speed

On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:52:38 -0500 (EST) "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote: > I bought a very inexpensive laptop from costco.ca. > Dead deal: > > > Unlike most lapt