[ale] Desktop 32GB of RAM

[Phil Turmel]

I bought a 32G HP ZBook last year -- I expected to need it for multiple
VMs.  Just peeked:  MemFree ~20G after 36 hours uptime and 2 background
VMs.  Mind you, linux generally has little to no MemFree as it will be
allocated to disk buffers.  So this represents memory that probably has
never been allocated in a typical workday.

I'd have been fine with 16G.  For now.

On 08/19/2015 07:41 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
> When I go to customer sites for Puppet engagements, I spin up
> anywhere from 4-8 VMs right off the back via Vagrant + Virtualbox.
> This is on an 8G Macbook Pro Retina.  I’d love to have a ton more
> RAM, but would need extreme portability.  Further, being a “road
> warrior”, the chassis needs to be solid, so I generally have to pick
> my battles in regards to how many VMs I can have running.  I stay
> toward 4, but have been known to do 8 simultaneously.