On 11/11/2020 12:09, A. Dumas wrote:
> On 11-11-2020 12:23, druck wrote:
>> On 11/11/2020 10:01, NY wrote:
>>> I wonder why they chose to give the Pi 400 only 4 GB and not the full
>>> 8 GB RAM.
>>
>> The vast majority of people will be using 32 bit Raspbian, (or
>> Raspberry Pi OS as they call it now), so wont benefit from anything
>> over 4GB. To make real use of that you have to load a 64 bit OS.
>
> Every process can use 4 (I think it's 3 in practice?) GiB. In
> Chrome/Chromium, every tab is a separate process. So if you regularly
> open a lot of tabs with huge content ... then 8 GiB might be beneficial
> even on 32-bit RaspiOS.

Sorry that is true, I was just concentrating on the memory usable by
single applications (I have a system test that uses over 6GB).

I don't think I've managed to get Chromium processes to use up all the
memory even on my 4GB Pi 4B yet, I obviously need to try harder!

---druck

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