Hot take: Underspeccing on RAM is a deliberate ploy by hardware manufacturers to wear out other hardware more rapidly.

High virtual memory use degrades storage drives, and overworks CPUs. This all increases heat overall, and causes unnecessary systemwide stress.

I guarantee this is part of planned obsolescence.

I had 32gb of RAM in my desktop in 2011. They're still releasing home and office computers with 4gb of RAM in 2023... an era where cell phones often come with 16gb of RAM.

Every single computer with 16gb or less that I've encountered has so many hard faults that it freezes randomly when there's almost no CPU use.

Do yourself a favour if you like your computer and buy some more RAM for it.

#RAM #hardware #desktop #laptop #virtualmemory #vmem #cache #hardfaults #windows #linux

@bazcurtis

Not to be trite, but is your machine actually out of memory? PyCharm / JetBrains' IDE is a memory hog. Running on my (Linux) machine right now, just the main process is occupying >6GB of RAM, and 25GB of vmem.

Apple Silicon Macs default to quite low amounts of memory - usually 8GB. If you didn't spring for at least another 8GB, I would not find it surprising for PyCharm to not be able to run correctly on that machine.

#mem #PyCharm #JetBrains #IDE #java #vmem #RSS