System is a 4700K intel pro, 32gb of ram, x99 gigabyte mobo, and my 
mentioned 7970 soft-moded to a r9-280.

It actually runs just dandy, memory being a big part of that.  I do run 
out of 32gb of ram periodically when things misbehave, I've seen pulse 
volume control chew up 12gb with memory leaks, chrome+chromium+40 tabs 
each using 28gb of ram, having to run windoze and give it 8gb+ too.  I 
usually keep htop running somewhere on there to keep the unruly apps in 
line.  Next board will be a dual socket just to get more ram slots.

Usually I blow out xwindow client counts before I exhaust memory. 
Chrome|chromium is good about hoarding your resources stealthily.

Video is usually my grief - I'd use nvidia if they were better about 
support multi-monitor arrays, but apparently they still think it's 2005 
and no one does this with linux.  Sad I can still go by a 10 year old 
amd video card and do what nvidia cannot/will not.  That and wm's all 
loving compositing full screens, never thinking about if a gpu can 
actually render more exotic size desktops like mine.  I'd rather be 
stable than have wobbly windows, thanks.

-mb


On 06/23/2016 06:29 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>
> Hardware specs are in order after seeing 3-48's.  What video card are 
> you driving this with.  CPU?  RAM....?
>
> I cannot imagine the number of windows you could possibly have open at 
> any one time while being able to see them all at once.
>
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