@Dashrender said in How much RAM for this VM?:

why does the consumed have those dips?

I'd say this was invoked by the apps running on it. This VM is used for analytics and reporting, it's got Visual Studio, Power Bi and SQL server running on it. The vendor must've been doing some shit on it.

@WrCombs said in Windows 7 Pro 32 bit - Low on Memory... Ideas?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 7 Pro 32 bit - Low on Memory... Ideas?:

@WrCombs said in Windows 7 Pro 32 bit - Low on Memory... Ideas?:

SO correct me here - But If I use a database server instance to compile data into folders and then use a mapped drive to send data to and from on mapped drives then wouldn't I be a fileserver using a database instance - not making it a database server?

Then you are in even worse shape because this is so ridiculous a court would see it as "intent to defraud" by making a slow, terrible system that makes no sense except to attempt to hide that you are violating a license.

This would be still having a database server (can you get data from the database? Then you have a server), but coopting the file server protocols to do it turning them into an API and thereby requiring that they be licensed as a server to keep using.

No matter how you skin the cat here, it's still a cat. There is a database server, it is managing data, and it is getting that data to other machines. That another service is put into that process to hide that is bad programming practice, but doesn't change licensing. Licensing is by use and intent, not visible protocol.

again - I might not have all of the information here to be able to tell you one way or another as this conversation goes on, I was simply asking -

Buy a Windows Server license and enough CALs, slap the sticker on the Win7 box, then go home and sleep peacefully.

@connorsoliver said in Motherboard RAM Slots - CompTIA A+ 220-901 220-902 Video Training by Prof. Messer:

What exactly does RAM affect in a computer? I'm assuming it has to do with speed right?

Not really. But kind of. It's complex. "Speed" is not at all the simply idea that it seems like with computers. There is so much more to it. Speed under what workloads, for example.

@emad-r said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

@tim_g said in Do you flush ? the Linux RAM cache buffer.:

Did I understand correctly that it's a Java application? If so, how are you launching/running it? What CLI command you using?

Oh i know they use a whole file for those arguments, ill see if i can check that and get back to you, what I can recall currently is- xms 512 and -xmx 2028

Is that enough memory to start the java application? That means you are starting it with 512MB of RAM and giving it a max of 2028 MB.

@travisdh1 said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@DustinB3403 said in Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D and E300-8D – review:

@travisdh1 Yeah I saw that, which was why I was asking about it.

Just taking a quick look at the pricing, you can get those smaller Dell servers with 4 3.5" bays for less, at least in the US.

that's a main problem here in Italy. If you ask for a street price for dell or hpe you go cheeper then supermicro (and local SLA is better).