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My 2019 mac pro has 384gb of ram I believe - I honestly don't need this much RAM but I'm keeping it because for my work (devops) and for my creative endeavours (music and video production) most of my apps and plugins don't support arm yet in fact even the ones that support arm perform better under x86 still for some reason

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Out of curiosity, how much of that do you typically use during a heavy workload, and what apps use most of it?

Asking because I have 64GB on Ubuntu and rarely exceed 30 or so of actual usage. 384GB of RAM is just wild to me. Maybe it's because I don't do video/audio production, but I can't imagine what one could possibly run on a non-server that would use that much.

Not the parent but the biggest use of more ram I've seen in extreme situations like this is having VMs open. Still, I can't imagine what I could use 384GB for (not that it wouldn't be a blast to have).

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