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I have Debian running on an ARM board that has 256MB RAM. Handles Audio and 720/video streaming without having to use swap.
I'm not using swap on my work and gaming PCs > 10 years now. I first started to question I need it, when I got a new PC going from 512MB to 2GB. Now I have 20GB in one of them and I don't think I will ever be able to fill it all up until I get an upgrade again.
Good for you, I have 32g and if I do too many things at once, the oom killer will stalk my tabs
π― how many tabs did you open?
Not too many, with today's stupid websites. Plus a bunch of large tools, IDEs, Ghidra, a few containers... it adds up :(
That's amazing. Mind sharing more details?
Its a 2010 IOMega Home media hard drive, with OEM OS wiped off, and Debian imstalled. 32 bit armv6 board. Since it only has 256Mb the 3.12 kernel is the latest that would install, newer give errors about size, so I have it blocked from internet access. But you can see from the screen capture that once running is barely takes up 30% of that 256MB. Music streaming was my last use, previously was movie streaming using twonky until we got a 4k TV. Image is a few months back when it wasrunning openmediavault but I built a new server recently and this might just become a ups monitor or something. PS my date is wrong LOL 01 09 2025 vs 09 01 2025 I assume is what I did.