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This one goes out to the sysadmins in the crowd. (dubvee.org)

submitted 1 year ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, almost certainly the software only uses 4GB because it limits itself to what memory it has available.

I have seen this conversation pan out a few times already. It has always been because of that, and once expanded things work much better. (Personally I have never took party at one, I guess that's luck.)

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 1 year ago

I phrased that panel poorly. App in question always had 16 GB and still never used above 4.

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the OS really eat up 7GB RAM?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, ok, I overlooked it has space to grow. This is one conversation I've never seen.