[Discuss] smallest board that can handle 32 GB RAM

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 09:04:44AM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> Here is why I ask: I am just shifting things over to a new 16GB
> machine. I got that much because I could and it was pretty cheap.
> But I don't know what I am going to do with all that. That is a
> *bleep* of a lot of RAM.

I'm building a new machine for my father. I'm putting in 16GB of
RAM because:

a: it's cheap enough
b: that's all it will take (Gigabyte BX micromachine)
c: I won't have to upgrade it again
d: everything goes faster when it doesn't have to wait for the
   disk

But it always gets down to (d). Why do database servers like RAM? So that
they don't have to go to disk so often. Why do VM servers like RAM? How
about Firefox and Chrome and the 3D spinny desktop thing?


-dsr-