I'm using a Dell Precision 7910 Tower, which has dual cpu slots and 8 ram slots per cpu. I'd found a refurb on ebay with dual v4 xeon's cpu's already and minimal ram as a starting point. I'd added 8x 16gb samsung sticks with it, finding refurbs on ebay at the time for around $56/per stick. I can get 32gb sticks, but they're super expensive still used even ($300-400ea). For windoze images, I tend to give it 8gb of ram, as I do some complex visios that have gotten cranky with less. Other linux vm's are usually pretty minimal, as they're pretty purpose-built, but spawning vendor appliances from f5, palo alto, or fortinet tend to all want 4-8gb of ram as a start. Throw in GNS3 routing instances for cisco things, and it goes quick there too. Libreoffice gets ram-hungry with some formula spreadsheets too, having seen it using ~20gb at times as well with some of the more huge price lists or interface config generating forms I use. I'd love to know how folks get by on 4 or 8gb of ram these days... -mb On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 13:06:57 -0700 > Michael Butash wrote: > > > I do run a lot of VM's, almost always at least a windoze vm for visio > > and crappy conferencing software, sometimes playing with firewall or > > other network appliances, sometimes linux monitoring system > > appliances I've built, etc. That and I tend to run a lot of tabs, so > > 16gb of ram usually just isn't enough from my last system. I just > > moved to 128gb of ram in my desktop as 32gb I'd depelete quick too. > > Does your mobo have 8 ram slots, or have you found 32GB single > ramsticks somewhere? > > How much RAM do you devote to each VM guest? How do you run all those > guests without running out of host machine CPU? > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > September 2017 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical > Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition > http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss