{"id":1205,"date":"2008-09-09T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2008-09-09T14:16:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T04:16:57","slug":"4gb-of-ram-and-swapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/4gb-of-ram-and-swapping\/","title":{"rendered":"4GB of RAM and swapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution: why exactly do you need 89MB when you start yet 898MB now?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I feel that 4GB of physical memory and 4GB of swap (well.. 2GB used) should be enough to run an email client, web browser, office suite, play some tunes, use a calendar, IRC and IM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution: why exactly do you need 89MB when you start yet 898MB now? Somehow I feel that 4GB of physical memory and 4GB of swap (well.. 2GB used) should be enough to run an email client, web browser, office suite, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/4gb-of-ram-and-swapping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-jr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3948,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/13\/amounts-of-ram-for-devices-so-that-i-no-longer-have-to-worry-about-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":1205,"position":0},"title":"Amounts of RAM for devices so that I no longer have to worry about it.","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2015-02-13","format":false,"excerpt":"I think this is my current \"okay, I don't have to worry about RAM\" list currently: Phone\/Tablet: 2GB Laptop: 8GB (although 8GB is better... 4GB is tolerable IFF SSD) Development server: 16GB (32GB if shared) (emacs+gcc) Box for testing things: 128GB (virtualization, databases) This is... kind of mind bending.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1020,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/twitter-updates-for-2008-02-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":1205,"position":1},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2008-02-25","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-02-25","format":false,"excerpt":"@pjf: hrrm.. breakfast is an idea... although it's about that time where you go \"hrrm... should it just be lunch?\" # GAH - memory leaks... on a 4GB desktop, I shouldn't also haev 3.5GB of swap used. # just read a presentation that said \"no more fsck!\". 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