I have a e14 Thinkpad gen 5 Intel 1335u with 8gb soldered ram and a 8gb 3200 ddr4 stick. 16 is not enough ram for my use as a developer so I put a 16gb stick in knowing only first 16 will run dual channel. Now my computer crashes randomly with high memory usage… read online that a 32gb is more stable single channel but I’m skeptical. Stability is pretty important to me as this is how I earn a living what do you all think? Also I would just buy a 32 and try it but everything got pricey the last 2 month
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I’d disagree on the 16GB part. It’s nice to have, but I think 8GB is perfectly fine for most non-gaming use cases. Heck, a couple years ago, I used a laptop from 2010 with 4GB quite comfortably.
I mean, get at least 16GB if you can, especially in a dev setup, but 8 GB hasn’t murdered that many people yet.
In my experience that is not really true. If you use Flatpaks (for recent versions and sandboxing), a browser with many tabs, unoptimised RAM eating electron apps like Signal Desktop, and then have a couple of things like Syncthing and some programs to share Linux ISOs running in the background, stuff gets tight quickly.
I would then also play a video in MPV and maybe encode one with ffmpeg, then oomd comes and kills apps, after my system was frozen for multiple minutes.
That just sounds like insufficient swap space, honestly. For part of the summer of 2024, I used a laptop from 2016 with 8 GB of RAM as my man portable devicr. The swap partition size I used was fine for most things but a but small; however, I’d occasionally run Spleeter and run out of memory, leading to the issues you experienced, which were alleviated by just adding a temporary swap file. Before that, I used a gen 1 Surface Go, also with 8 GB RAM.
Well I dont have swap XD I should really make one
It gets less essential the more memory you have, though I have 32GB of RAM on my desktop and still have 32GB swap space, which is probably way overkill, but I can afford it for now become I have a 2TB SSD that still has several hundred gigabytes left and could probably have a bit freed. With the memory shortage caused by “artificial intelligence” companies, I may have to go less crazy on the storage now, though.
I simply want to avoid the wear on my SSD
But with 16GB (as my RAM is halved until I find out exactly what settings cause that) it is really necessary to have swap