Is there anyone with me in the triple-digit-gigabyte RAM club?

[maxtch]

This is all about the sheer amount of RAM in your system. Inspired by the 10TB+ Storage thread, I am wondering is there anyone with me in the 100GB+ RAM club. More RAM doesn't necessarily mean more performance, but it certainly mean being able to do more at the same time.

 

Please follow the example I made below, and I will tally up stats when some people replied. By the way, moderator, please pin this.

 

By the way, no enterprise rigs please, unless it is inside the LTT server room.

[TheRandomness]

Why oh why would anyone ever actually use 128GB of RAM. Also, your sig says you only have 8GB.

[maxtch]

CPU: 2x Xeon E5-2620v2

RAM: 8x KingstonKVR 16GB ECC DDR3-1600 = 128GB

OS: VMware ESXi

 

Intention of 100GB+ RAM: Virtual machine host.

Peak memory usage ever recorded: 119GB

[DJfern94]

 

This is all about the sheer amount of RAM in your system. Inspired by the 10TB+ Storage thread, I am wondering is there anyone with me in the 100GB+ RAM club. More RAM doesn't necessarily mean more performance, but it certainly mean being able to do more at the same time.

 

Please follow the example I made below, and I will tally up stats when some people replied. By the way, moderator, please pin this.

 

 

Think you need to update your signature, says you only have 16GB

[maxtch]

Why oh why would anyone ever actually use 128GB of RAM. Also, your sig says you only have 8GB.

 

Oh I have more than one rig. The signature one is just my daily driver, and I am talking about big machines here.

[Coaxialgamer]

CPU: 2x Xeon E5-2620v2

RAM: 8x KingstonKVR 16GB ECC DDR3-1600 = 128GB

OS: VMware ESXi

 

Intention of 100GB+ RAM: Virtual machine host.

Peak memory usage ever recorded: 119GB

For that kind of setup , you should use ECC .

[maxtch]

Think you need to update your signature, says you only have 16GB

 

I can't put all 5 of my rigs there, can I? That one is just my daily driver.

[Superspeed07]

Why oh why would anyone ever actually use 128GB of RAM. Also, your sig says you only have 8GB.

 

Servers will use it, we have a server in house that has 392 gigs for running lots of vm's 

 

Our server -

 

just checked and we are sitting around 113gb being used

[KemoKa]

You should proooobably get in touch with Wendell from Tek Syndicate, because you're going to be hard-pressed to find other people who have a use for that much RAM. even 16GB is waaaaay overkill for the vast majority of people. Even most power users like us only really need 8GB.

[Guest Gabbs]

If you are going to run multiple virtual machines, then yes.. if not, totally worthless.

[Gofspar]

2tb of ranm

athlon 4400+

gigabyte \ep45 extreme

[maxtch]

You should proooobably get in touch with Wendell from Tek Syndicate, because you're going to be hard-pressed to find other people who have a use for that much RAM. even 16GB is waaaaay overkill for the vast majority of people. Even most power users like us only really need 8GB.

I max out the 8GB RAM on my MacBook Pro pretty routinely. 16GB is barely enough for my daily rig (it is half loaded though, so I can drop in another 16 if needed so)

This 128GB beast was a VM host and I have recorded a maximum of 119GB usage, so barely enough for me.

[maxtch]

2tb of ranm

athlon 4400+

gigabyte \ep45 extreme

What???

[maxtch]

Servers will use it, we have a server in house that has 392 gigs for running lots of vm's 

 

Our server -

 

just checked and we are sitting around 113gb being used

My rig have an average of 48GB and a peak of 119. I have 16 VMs on it though.

[KemoKa]

I max out the 8GB RAM on my MacBook Pro pretty routinely. 16GB is barely enough for my daily rig (it is half loaded though, so I can drop in another 16 if needed so)

This 128GB beast was a VM host and I have recorded a maximum of 119GB usage, so barely enough for me.

Yes, but I think we've established that you aren't exactly the typical everyday power user. I was talking about everyone else. You know, us filthy casuals who aren't running over a dozen VMs at once.

[maxtch]

Yes, but I think we've established that you aren't exactly the typical everyday power user. I was talking about everyone else. You know, us filthy casuals who aren't running over a dozen VMs at once.

I don't run VMs on my MacBook Pros or the new daily driver Hackintosh too, but I do compile code once in a few hours. The 128GB RAM is for more than a dozen of VMs but the 16GB rig don't.

[KemoKa]

I don't run VMs on my MacBook Pros or the new daily driver Hackintosh too, but I do compile code once in a few hours. The 128GB RAM is for more than a dozen of VMs but the 16GB rig don't.

I know you don't. I'd consider you rather funny if you did.

 

Sure, I can dig that. Compiling can be pretty heavy. I render and slice models for printing myself. And I stream to twitch, and I have about a dozen browser tabs open at any given time. Often I do all of those things at the same time. That takes resources, which is why I have 16GB in my machine. But like you, I'm an unusual case who actually has use for that much memory. Most people aren't going to use that much. Any fool can fill up their RAM, that's just a matter of pressing Add New Tab enough times while watching period dramas and streaming TeamPGP, but hardly anyone has an actual practical use for more than 8GB. For that reason... the over 100s club is gonna be pretty small.

[ApolloX75]

2tb of ranm

athlon 4400+

gigabyte \ep45 extreme

Psh. I know you're lying.

Athlon 4400+ can only handle like, 1tb of RAM dude.