Want 1.5TB of RAM in Your PC? It Will Cost You

Post by Wowfunhappy » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 1:25 AM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #26

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #16

I decided to put 32 GB of Ram in my home desktop some months back. I knew I didn’t need that much, but I figured macOS (it’s a Hackintosh) would use it for file caching or some such. To my disappointment, it goes completely unused more often than not. According to Activity Monitor, I currently have around 7 gb just sitting idle.

Does Activity Monitor report the page cache/UBC size? Most of the time, basically all of the memory I'm not using directly is filled with page cache. The other big thing large memory typically does for me is delay GC in the JVM. Typically the only time I use enough memory that my working files don't fit in the page cache along with the application memory, is when I build Android. It's possible you just don't have tha…