Separate VM's under the host for each, I don't nest vm's under vm's. Maybe if I were trying to run esx under the parent to play with vmware or something, but as you said, not common. I have some spreadsheets that drive libreoffice absolutely batsh!t crazy, mostly doing a complex concatenate to generate switch configs off some columns of data. Doing so still causes libre to wretch and lag and hang and use a globs of cpu/memory for some reason. I write it off as a peculiarity of libreoffice, which I've just not tried elsewhere to see if any better. More often than not, I find office is worse, or different enough to just break my formulas. Cisco price lists kill it with just sheer volumes of rows... -mb On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > On 2017-09-07 11:40, Michael Butash wrote: > >> For windoze images, I tend to give it 8gb of ram, as I do some >> complex visios that have gotten cranky with less. [...] >> 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... >> > > They're not using super-complex Visio things or running a bunch of > networking appliances in separate VMs? The latter seems like a thing very > few people would need to do. Gigantic spreadsheets are probably a more > common thing. I can't really say. Almost every spreadsheet I've seen in > the last ten years has been "present textual data in a tabular format", not > "do math on numbers", and they've almost all been under 10,000 rows. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > 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