• GlenRambo@jlai.luEnglish
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    6 days ago

    What’s peoples issue? I’ve been talking to AI and had my agent code me some more RAM. Unlock your PCs power for free and follow me for more tips.

    /s

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    I downloaded more RAM in the 90s. It was a product called RAM Doubler for the Macintosh. At that time memory had to be pre-allocated for applications through a setting in the resource fork, always used exactly the amount you set, and couldn’t grow beyond that. It was static, making it hard to run multiple programs simultaneously. RAM Doubler did wonders to work around that OS limitation.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      There was a virtual swap space program that I downloaded in the Windows 95-98 era that did something similar. Worked reasonably well, if slowly, but everything was slower back then with computers.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    At this point I’m not even above buying a PC/laptop from Amazon, pulling the RAM then returning the whole thing…

  • turdas@suppo.fi
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    6 days ago
    $ zramctl
NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE  DATA COMPR   TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
/dev/zram0 lzo-rle      62.6G  2.8G  972M 1011.4M         [SWAP]

    Already did

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Based zramctl. Makes my 8GB RAM system run like I had 12 GB, which is quite significant in this new internet world where opening a second tab in a web browser costs almost 600 MB.

    • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
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      6 days ago

      What’s the use case over RAM or disk swap? It’s compressed but faster than SSD? Hmm. That could help in distinct use cases…

      • turdas@suppo.fi
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        6 days ago

        Yes, it’s basically faster than disk swap but uses some CPU cycles. The compression algorithms involved are very fast on modern CPUs so in some sense it’s “free RAM”.

        I set mine to almost 1:1 my physical RAM, because the way it works is that the zram disk size (62.6G there) is the amount of uncompressed data allowed on it, and the compression on real-world data is almost always at least 50% – so if the zram device fills up, it’ll be using something like 32G of physical memory. I’m yet to hit real-world usecases that would have tested these limits though, and the defaults are much more conservative.