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dravidious · 11 months ago

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Related: Android Studio, the program I have to use for the class, fucking DEVOURS my computer's ram, so much so that it finally pushed me to upgrade my ram. Turns out an 8GB ram stick is only $20, and I just so happened to have a pair of $10 amazon gift cards from my birthday, so looking forward to that arriving.

I just spent the past 2 days struggling with a mobile development project. It's one of the only times in my college career that I've gone over a deadline. And as I open up the class webpage to check the late work policy, I'm greeted with an announcement saying that a lot of people have been struggling with this project and so the deadline has been extended by 4 days. Fucking RELIEF

#original #i don't usually watch my ram usage but right now it's at 50% out of 8gb #when i have android studio open it's around 75-95% especially when i'm running the phone emulator #turns out that trying to run a miniature computer inside your computer is really hard!#but even without the emulator it takes so much memory #i don't know exactly how ram works but i looked it up and typically 8gb is the bare minimum and not suitable for resource-intensive program #and there's all this “adding more ram can improve your computer's responsiveness” and such #so i figure that even though it's not hitting 100% adding more ram will probably help? i think?#like. giving the computer more breathing room or something #i don't know how ram works #anyway the ram is arriving in a week but fortunately it'll get here before the next assignment is due #UPDATE: Looked some stuff up and it turns out that ram that isn't technically “in use” can still store data that might be used later #and looking at my ram usage. yeah. yeah it's full of cached standby data #definitely going to benefit from doubling my ram

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