<div dir="ltr"><div>8Gb is ample for me - fedora-38/sway/firefox (24 tabs presently):</div><div><br></div><div>$ free -h<br> total used free shared buff/cache available<br>Mem: 7.6Gi 5.3Gi 200Mi 740Mi 2.2Gi 1.3Gi<br>Swap: 7.6Gi 1.8Gi 5.8Gi</div><div><br></div><div>$ sudo ps_mem:</div><div>...</div><div> 43.1 MiB + 618.5 KiB = 43.7 MiB pipewire-pulse<br> 44.7 MiB + 37.5 KiB = 44.7 MiB nordvpnd<br> 22.9 MiB + 25.5 MiB = 48.4 MiB sway<br> 45.0 MiB + 9.9 MiB = 54.9 MiB keepassxc<br> 70.3 MiB + 4.8 MiB = 75.1 MiB syncthing (2)<br> 59.0 MiB + 18.3 MiB = 77.3 MiB com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate<br> 79.9 MiB + 17.2 MiB = 97.1 MiB WebKitWebProcess<br>181.0 MiB + 9.7 MiB = 190.7 MiB mythfrontend<br>218.8 MiB + 5.0 MiB = 223.9 MiB emacs-29.0.91<br>186.3 MiB + 43.0 MiB = 229.4 MiB rclone (12)<br> 3.3 GiB + 162.2 MiB = 3.5 GiB firefox (33)<br>---------------------------------<br> 4.9 GiB<br>=================================</div><div><br></div><div>I don't even notice the swapping. No VM's, mind.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 at 15:34, Russell Stuart via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 26/6/23 14:59, Steven Ellis via linux-aus wrote:<br>
> I suppose it depends on your usage, but I wouldn't touch anything<br>
> below 16GB for personal and 32GB for work these days. My web browser<br>
> alone uses 16 GB on a regular basis.<br>
<br>
On my laptop I run a browser, vscode, SQL DB's, web servers and the<br>
other usual stuff that I forget.<br>
<br>
$ free -h<br>
total used free shared <br>
buff/cache available<br>
Mem: 15Gi 7.5Gi 1.3Gi 459Mi <br>
6.6Gi 7.1Gi<br>
Swap: 15Gi 0B 15Gi<br>
<br>
As you say it depends on what you are doing. 8GB would be fine for me<br>
on typical days. Occasionally I run a Windows VM and then 16GB isn't<br>
enough without swap. With swap I get by.<br>
<br>
If you aren't spilling over into swap very occasionally, I'd say you've<br>
spent too much on memory and using too much battery.<br>
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