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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-223 days agoFor me in particular I’m a software developer who works on developer tools, so I have a lot of tests running in VMs so I can test on different operating systems. I just finished running a test suite that used up over 50 gigs of RAM for a dozen VMs.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•22 days agoSame, 48c/96t with 192gb ram. make -j is fun, htop triggers epilepsy. Few vms, but tons of Lxc containers, it’s like having 1 machine that runs 20 systems in parallel and really fast. Have containers for dev, for browsing, for wine, the dream finally made manifest.
For me in particular I’m a software developer who works on developer tools, so I have a lot of tests running in VMs so I can test on different operating systems. I just finished running a test suite that used up over 50 gigs of RAM for a dozen VMs.
Same, 48c/96t with 192gb ram.
make -j is fun, htop triggers epilepsy.
Few vms, but tons of Lxc containers, it’s like having 1 machine that runs 20 systems in parallel and really fast.
Have containers for dev, for browsing, for wine, the dream finally made manifest.