Word of Wisdom

[TechSY730]

Don't try to run AI war when you don't have a lot of free RAM. If you do, lets just say EPIC THRASHING ACTION.

Just learned this the hard way.

[x4000]

Heh, yeah, it's a big game for sure.

[Nalgas]

Heh, yeah, it's a big game for sure.

It's no worse than any of at least a few dozen others I have on my PC.  It did always end up with a bit of swapping on my MacBook when I only had 4GB of RAM in it, but so did everything else, because running OS X with that little RAM and not closing everything before you run something big is just asking for trouble.  It's a very RAM-hungry OS and always has been.  Should be fine now that I'm up to 8, though, just haven't tried.  On the other hand, I've never noticed it swap angrily on my desktop.  Never did when I had 4GB, and it certainly doesn't now that I have 12.

[x4000]

It's interesting, I only have 4 on my Macbook and don't have much trouble with it swapping.  But then again, I tend to have most everything else beyond just web browsers and unity closed.

[Nalgas]

It's interesting, I only have 4 on my Macbook and don't have much trouble with it swapping.  But then again, I tend to have most everything else beyond just web browsers and unity closed.

Just my browser is several hundred MB with all the crap I have open.  I usually have at least a few dozen tabs with things I'm reading/watching and various reminders, plus references for stuff I'm working on or learning, and so on.  I tend to have a bunch of other stuff running at any given time, too, since because it's my laptop and more easily accessible, it's my "do random crap" computer (mail, music, I'm, half a dozen terminal windows doing everything from IRC to smaller programming/scripting work that doesn't need a full IDE).  Enough random crap and it adds up after a while.

[x4000]

That's how my desktop is; I have 8gb on that one for that reason.  For my laptop I use it a lot more lightly, actually.  Funny how usage patterns vary like that!