On 12/29/2012 11:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 12/29/2012 1:54 AM, James Freer wrote:
I've got two spare PCs so i've never looked
at VM and certainly never had a PC capable of taking 16GB RAM. Current PC is
only about 18 months old so i think i need to shop more carefully next time.
the new Intel Core i5 box I built last month can hold 32GB ram (4x8GB),
I put 2x8GB in it. CPU is a I5-3570k, motherboard is Z77 based. 16gb
of fast high grade memory was like US$59
my 2008 vintage Core2Duo box supported 8GB, that was plenty to run a
2-4GB VM as long as you aren't running /too/ much other stuff on the
host OS concurrently. When I bought it, I only put 4GB in it. after
upgrading my desktop system to the i5, I took the core2duo, put 8gb in
it and set it up for my son (a college student), added a SSD as the main
disk, and wow its fast now.
My most recent laptop, now 12 months old ( an ASUS i7 has 16 Gb of Ram,
plus a 60Gb SSD for the OS) - I regularly run a VM with 2+Gb of Ram
assigned, plus develop apps using MySql, php, apache and related systems
and test these from the VM and the base CentOS 6.3 system under some
load. As mentioned, RAM is cheap and the benefits of having it available
are well utilised by CentOS and VMs.
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