Title. Besides setting tmpfs to use 10GiB of it to store downloads.
Run your web browser from RAM for faster browsing.
2 Chrome tabs at the same time!
Nothing. Don’t make up problems for your hardware, lol.
I’m guessing you listened to someone who didn’t know what they were talking about.
Use it for caching more stuff to make your system even faster, virtualization and most importantly, browsers
Just wait. In 10 years 32 gig is on the low side to just run the OS. Hardware getest faster and bigger, but software scales with it.
The more resources are available, the more people will program computers to use them.
My first graphics card had 128mb memory. These days it goes in gigabyte and they use the memory and processing power to produce amazing things.
On the other hand, they also are not as critical on efficiëncy as used to be, because there are simply more resources available anyway. As a consequence, some programs use a silly amount of resources for basically doing nothing. Sometimes I really feel like my browser is eating RAM…
you can disable paging (swap) i guess apart from launching more things at the same time and letting apps know you have ram for them to cache shit (check app settings some apps do have a how much ram should we use slider like okular the kde pdf viewer) and virtualisation of multiple os’s i can’t think of much
Compile chromium, firefox or rust
Just open a few more Chrome tabs: a couple of Ali Express and Amazon pages and a few YouTube videos and couple Reddit posts, and you’ll be wondering why you only got 32.
Doesn’t your browser take it all yet? Don’t worry, web frameworks’ developers are working on that.
Not really RAM but you can support science!
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-ways-to-donate-your-cpu-time-to-science/
I remember my brother ringing me and telling me that he’d managed to wedge 40MB of RAM into his PC. Yes MB. That was when a 1MB stick costed about £30 a pop. It seemed rather insane at the time. Bear in mind that on DOS/Windows machines at the time, you fiddled with himem.sys and autoexec.bat to wrestle memory regions.
Several years later I got a T shirt from Novell (Cool Solutions) for a pretty decent boot floppy disc image that was able to run with a lot of different network cards and still manage to run “ghost” without falling over.
Much earlier, I upgraded my 80206 PC with 1MB of RAM with an 80207 maths co-processor so I could run AutoCAD on it. Yes it did! The next version required 32MB of RAM, which at the time looked pretty mad to the likes of me.
32GB RAM … … modern apps generally will use whatever you have. The OS will disc cache, if nothing else.
