Will 4GB RAM be enough for FreeBSD ?

I still have a box in my basement that runs on 768MB of ram but it was FreeBSD 7 on it, I think. Doesn't have ZFS or poudriere, of course. Runs Firefox and Inkscape but I don't recall what desktop it used.
 
As others said, for running a server, even with ZFS, 4GB is generous.

Why do you want to compile at all, in particular with poudriere? Why not just run pre-compiled packages?
 
ralphbsz said:
As others said, for running a server, even with ZFS, 4GB is generous.

Why do you want to compile at all, in particular with poudriere? Why not just run pre-compiled packages?
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You cant install chromium with drm from pre-compiled packages - or im wrong ?

Cath O'Deray said:
Building www/chromium might be too much of a drag with 8.
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I got my RAM back to 32GB so i think ill be allocating 12GB of it so fingers crossed as ill be checking it this weekend just need to sort out my Proxmox installation also im not worried about time it takes even if things compiles one by one and takes a week for browser to get compiled.
 
Freebsd 13 ran fine on my X61 with 4GB ram, even when running KDE plasma. Having more ram will help with running large compile jobs though. Lots of open browser tabs on firefox/chromium tends to swallow ram too.
 
blackbird9 said:
Having more ram will help with running large compile jobs though. Lots of open browser tabs on firefox/chromium tends to swallow ram too.
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More RAM is generally beneficial for the overall performance. More memory also means more room for things like process and filesystem caches, that makes everything feel a lot more responsive. Depending on usage of course.
 
blackbird9 said:
Freebsd 13 ran fine on my X61 with 4GB ram, even when running KDE plasma. Having more ram will help with running large compile jobs though. Lots of open browser tabs on firefox/chromium tends to swallow ram too.
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Obviously yes, but my FreeBSD is being set up inside proxmox as headless so no browser issues :)
 
"ThinkPad X1 Yoga | ThinkPad P71 | ThinkPad T440p | ThinkPad X220 | ThinkPad W520 | IBM ThinkPad T61 | ThinkPad F25 aka Frankenpad | Asus Z10PE-D16 WS + nVidia Titan V CEO + Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 x2"

Hey glicthy, I'm just wondering which of your boxes you're going to be running this build on... :)
(nice collection, btw! What's a thinkpad F25??!! 😁... I'm intrigued! )
 
blackbird9 said:
"ThinkPad X1 Yoga | ThinkPad P71 | ThinkPad T440p | ThinkPad X220 | ThinkPad W520 | IBM ThinkPad T61 | ThinkPad F25 aka Frankenpad | Asus Z10PE-D16 WS + nVidia Titan V CEO + Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 x2"

Hey glicthy, I'm just wondering which of your boxes you're going to be running this build on... :)
(nice collection, btw)
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ThinkPad X1 Yoga | ThinkPad P71 | ThinkPad T440p - These are goners !
Ill be running on Asus Z10PE-D16 WS ( Titan V CEO, 3070Ti, P600, M2 with 4x500GB nvme, 2x250GB SSD, 1x 500GB SSD and one Samsung server SSD ) already with Proxmox and now watching some how-to`s as i never used this type of virtualization and also i have 1x RPi3 and 1x RPi 4 and i have i7-9700k with 1070Ti :D but this one is a bit tricky as i tried to delid it and screwed up my cpu ( 1 smd is gone and if i run hard cpu test its crashes but gaming is ok )
ThinkPad F25 is FrankenPad. ThinkPad T25 Keyboard but with T480 motherboard as OG T25 was on old T470 platform. Plus i upgraded to better 2k monitor and whitelisted bios, plus internal battery instead of SSD so i have 24Wh and 74Wh batteries , 32GB Ram and 500GB nvme :D
 
blackbird9 said:
Hmm sounds like you need a new i7? Or are you thinking of liquid N2...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwJvHJ1hyto&pp=ygUZbGlxdWlkIG5pdHJvZ2VuIGNvb2xlZCBpNw%3D%3D

I reckon you can find somewhere to put 8GB in this nice board! https://www.asus.com/uk/commercial-servers-workstations/z10ped16/ :)
Just forget the pi's... even if you got enough memory you're going to get awful slow compilation times off the little broadcom ARM chip... dual xeon is definitley the way to go :)
The F25 sounds cool!
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No, no OC as due to missing one smd is a bit unstable but for light gaming is plenty enough ( when i game ).
My mb is this one: https://www.asus.com/commercial-servers-workstations/z10ped16_ws/ ( just need to get more ram as its 16 slots and i have only 4 sticks ) but im also saving now for another one: https://servers.asus.com/products/servers/server-motherboards/z13pe-d16 as if i put ok Xeons i can get rid of my i7-9700k rig completely and use this for gaming as well. ( this is whats happens when you getting addicted to home lab stuff :) )
Pi`s will be used for something else ... one of the projects going to be this: https://pi-hole.net/ and second one - i dont know yet how but my plan is to use as fan controller but as i said - have no idea how as im not a sparky or electrical engineer or ill be using like this to keep my desk clean
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDrmq4RQzU&list=PLZcFwaChdgSqPfgWh-EftX7OcoB7G8PiU&index=2
or maybe just play around with many sensors ( as i do have few of them )
But coming back to topic - well - i decided to use 10GB of RAM and 10 cores - time will tell if i made a good decision.
 
blackbird9 said:
You can usually get ecc dimms (server board pulls) on ebay pretty cheaply...
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I dont have ebay anymore .. well, i do - but its a different story with it and yes - i will need to buy some but as this board is so picky with memory i cant just slap any ecc ones - there is a compatibility list so i have to use that and find them for sale.
 
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