I have a e14 Thinkpad gen 5 Intel 1335u with 8gb soldered ram and a 8gb 3200 ddr4 stick. 16 is not enough ram for my use as a developer so I put a 16gb stick in knowing only first 16 will run dual channel. Now my computer crashes randomly with high memory usage… read online that a 32gb is more stable single channel but I’m skeptical. Stability is pretty important to me as this is how I earn a living what do you all think? Also I would just buy a 32 and try it but everything got pricey the last 2 month

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  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    7·
    15 hours ago

    I used 20GB (4+16) for a while without issues. Just get another 16GB, if you can afford it XD

    And yes agree, 16GB is kinda needed for modern Linux systems and normal to complex software workloads

    • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      I’d disagree on the 16GB part. It’s nice to have, but I think 8GB is perfectly fine for most non-gaming use cases. Heck, a couple years ago, I used a laptop from 2010 with 4GB quite comfortably.

      I mean, get at least 16GB if you can, especially in a dev setup, but 8 GB hasn’t murdered that many people yet.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        2·
        15 hours ago

        In my experience that is not really true. If you use Flatpaks (for recent versions and sandboxing), a browser with many tabs, unoptimised RAM eating electron apps like Signal Desktop, and then have a couple of things like Syncthing and some programs to share Linux ISOs running in the background, stuff gets tight quickly.

        I would then also play a video in MPV and maybe encode one with ffmpeg, then oomd comes and kills apps, after my system was frozen for multiple minutes.

        • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          That just sounds like insufficient swap space, honestly. For part of the summer of 2024, I used a laptop from 2016 with 8 GB of RAM as my man portable devicr. The swap partition size I used was fine for most things but a but small; however, I’d occasionally run Spleeter and run out of memory, leading to the issues you experienced, which were alleviated by just adding a temporary swap file. Before that, I used a gen 1 Surface Go, also with 8 GB RAM.