@zelphirkaltstahl@mastodon.social
Post #4237440
2026-07-30 10:16 UTC
@itskamrankhan@flipboard.social I'd say in this day and age 32 GB is good to have. With 16 GB I would be worried about some scenario in which I want to run a VM that feels like host system, some hungry docker containers and then some. Probably would still be fine, but 32GB feels safer. 64 would be great, but likely not necessary, unless somehow used for some AI workload somehow. I don't think I have ever really needed more than 32GB.
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@dazo@infosec.exchange 2026-07-30 10:31
@zelphirkaltstahl@mastodon.social @itskamrankhan@flipboard.social Yeah, agreed. But also depends on what kind of development you do. I'm doing lots of C++ codingn in addition to compile a decent amount of Rust code these days. I have a 12 core CPU (incl. HT), with 32 GB I've not experienced any constraints. Even had a VM running with 8-12G RAM allocated in parallel. My previous machine was 8 cores with 16GB. That one I had to stop VMs before doing the most heavy builds. Or I had to reduce the number of compilation threads. Having roughly 2GB per core is usually enough for my builds.