{"id":502,"date":"2011-05-23T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-05-23T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:07:13","slug":"too-much-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/too-much-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"Too much RAM?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been spec’ing out a new desktop and am intrigued by something I’m not sure I’ve seen before. It’s actually possible to get a computer with too much RAM now. 32GB is not really high-end, or expensive, and yet I can’t really think of any consumer\/business application that would use that. Programs like photoshop or video editing or scientific engineering software have pretty much infinite appetites, so those programs would really be a question of diminishing returns.<\/p>\n

As for me, I could literally put an an entire Windows 7 virtual machine on a RAM disk* with a ton of code, some decent-sized databases, and give that VM 4-8GB of RAM, and still have physical memory to spare. That said, I’m certainly going to get (at least) 32 because it’s a cheap upgrade from 8 or 16, so if I find a use for it, I’ll report back.<\/p>\n

Making claims about the future can haunt you forever, even if you didn’t actually say it<\/a>, so I’m not saying that we’ll never need 32GB, of there will ever actually be such a thing as “too much RAM” but I’m curious how long it will be until we do.<\/p>\n

*You might think that the RAM disk is dead with the availability of SSD, but RAM is still dramatically (50-100x) faster than even high-end SSDs like Fusion-io, thanks to the limitations of the SATA or PCI bus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been spec’ing out a new desktop and am intrigued by something I’m not sure I’ve seen before. It’s actually possible to get a computer with too much RAM now. 32GB is not really high-end, or expensive, and yet I can’t really think of any consumer\/business application that would use that. Programs like photoshop or… <\/p>\n

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