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|    Benny Pedersen to Richard Menedetter    |
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|    30 May 20 09:42:52    |
      MSGID: 2:230/0 5ed22c4d       TZUTC: 0000       REPLY: 2:310/31 5ed1ff26       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 17-02-17       Hello Richard!              30 May 2020 08:35, Richard Menedetter wrote to Benny Pedersen:               RM> 29 May 2020 20:21, from Benny Pedersen -> Kees van Eeten:        BP>> welcome on board, i think about rpi 4 8G now :)               RM> Do you need that amount of memory?              for something yes, ram is always an issue :)               RM> I actually never use more than 2 GB.              postgresql is not memory hungry as mariadb or mysql oracle crap               RM> I go for 4 GB to be on the safe side, but 8 GB is overkill _for my         RM> usecases_ :)              what is it used for ?, i know many friends have pi's, just not what its used       for yet, if it was comal programming it would be overkill :)               RM> Anyhow it is great that it is available and maybe other people do more         RM> memory intensive stuff on their Pis :)              yes its good that good computers begin to be less power hungry in a world of       climachanges problems, i have a old quad pentium 2 that have less bogomips       then a rpi 2, and used servial 100 % more energi then the rpi 2              on top of that it have power pc cpu to the raid card, yark, more miss usage of       resources              it just looked nice on specs, 45 scsi 2 wide disk on a single pci port :)              bah                      Regards Benny              ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)              --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.6.15-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))        * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 452 616 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 292/854       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 230/0 203/0 280/464 229/101 426           |
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