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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Easy week continues! YAUT
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Okay I cheated, I used Google maps but I did have a fairly good idea of the continent... honest...
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My coworker has a brand new 16GB laptop.
16GB should be enough for most workloads, or so you'd think.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
We're running "the usual", such as Outlook, Spotify, SourceTree, Teams, Chrome, OneDrive, etc.
Now, with only two Visual Studio instances and a SQL Server Management Studio instance open, SQL Server (the service) just chokes.
We're getting timeouts like you wouldn't believe, nothing works.
After some digging, we found the reason to be memory exhaustion, 16GB just went up in smoke and it's at its peak at a constant 90+%.
I've had 16GB and even less in the past, and running a local SQL Server instance together with VS and SSMS has never been a problem.
At this point it's become unworkable.
You'd think that maybe the memory would be more evenly distributed and that some processes would write to disk instead and become a bit slower.
But instead, SQL Server just pretty much stops working altogether.
Closing a VS instance fixes the problem, but sometimes we just need to have two instances open.
My coworker changed his virtual memory page file to use 20GB and that fixes the problem, but doesn't feel right.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be?*
* Is this a programming question? Is it a SQL Server question? Is it a general computing question? I'm not sure, so I'm posting it here.
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Not too long ago I posted for my new PC I wanted 128GB of RAM. I got the usual I'm crazy type replies (it's the Internet). But, I gotta say... more RAM means spending less time (which is more valuable) than dealing with this type of nonsense. And I'm sure in a few years MS will make sure 128GB is not much. But, at least it'll carry me over until then.
At the very least, a dev workstation should not have less than 32GB these days. Some laptops are upgradable, so it's worth seeing if you can toss a new stick in it. If there are two physical drives in the laptop, you can always put the page file on the second drive to at least help that way. If it's on a non-system volume, then there will be less disk access going on to slow it down.
Outside of that, you're screwed buddy. 
Jeremy Falcon
modified 15hrs ago.
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I have 32Gb right now (not dev'ing so much lately) but still 2 slots free.
The first time I feel like something should be working better, I buy 2x32 right away.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I decided to take the elephant by the tusks, so to speak, and ordered a new Dell XPS laptop fully loaded - I9 processor, 64G RAM, 1TB SSD drive and a quad density touch screen. Was pricey, but this will last me for the next 5+ years without mucking about with upgrades. Did the same with my previous laptop, and it served me well fo 10+ years. Not screwing around anymore... And this thing is awesomely fast. It can do a VS update 3x faster than my work computer. I have no complaints...
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Andreas Mertens wrote: it served me well fo 10+ years. Not screwing around anymore...
I purchased my DELL work laptop when leaving the 2.previous company (10β¬ symbolic price to avoid "present" due to legislation) and it is still performing good, only mucking is temperature and changing the radiator is a PITA (I saw it back then done by the technician and I won't start with it). I might give the CPU a bit of thermal paste, but if not... not a big issue, Laptop was bought in 2011 and still kicking.
I bought an ACER out of the box in an offer as Multimedia device for the living room in 2017... still working really good.
I think I won't ever pimp any laptop beyond changing the disk or adding RAM.
But I built my PC myself from the scratch, I had no hurry, so I just purchased the parts during a couple of months while waiting for good offers, the only really costy thing was the graphic card. It was during the time they were way overpriced and I bought it for the official price (what already was a really good price back then, all other shops were at least 50% more expensive).
This I didn't do only because of price (which still got me around 1k savings comparing with current shop prices at the moment) but mostly, I did it to get back up-to-date in Hardware. My last built was over 10-11 years before that. I expect this PC to be good for the next 10 years or so (again).
For the kids I will not build the pc, just buy a pre-build setting. Only re-install to get the system as clean as I can (and the current windows version of the moment allows me)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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In my experience, the main cause of laptops running too hot is dust buildup in the air path through the radiator/heat exchanger/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, typically where the fan "pushes" the air. Most laptops are fairly easy to open up to the point that you can clean it out, and you can usually get instructions online. A couple of hp lappies I could open up to that point in about 5 minutes, maybe a dozen screws and a few clips. The worst was a 2006-or-so lenovo thinkpad, 30+ screws... But it's still running. Right now a friend is using it in the next room to scan about 1000 handwritten pages to PDF.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I have 64GB on my work computer and WSL(Windows Subsystem for Linux) fairly regularly gobbles up all the available CPU and memory, so occasionally I have to issue a taskkill on the wslservice service.
Seems to be Docker related in my case.
My take is that memory is assumed to be cheap nowadays so a lot of services will eat through memory.
βThat which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.β
β Christopher Hitchens
modified 18hrs ago.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: Seems to be Docker related in my case.
Docker is one of those things that should be used very, very sparingly and only if you have a good reason. Unfortunately so many devs just want to jump on the hype train without a thought in the world about how things actually work.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Unfortunately so many devs just want to jump on the hype train without a thought in the world
I didn't have a say in the matter 
βThat which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.β
β Christopher Hitchens
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I will say this, if I find myself in serious need of a docker container over WSL, believe it or not a raspberry pi is fast enough to do most things for a single user. So, running a container inside a pi is totally doable.
Jeremy Falcon
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