Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores are tired of adjusting the prices day to day, and won’t even display them. You find out how much it costs at checkout.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    You can have a 12G text file, logs, suppose, you are going to load the entire file into memory?

    That’s actually done via journalctl today, most of the time. Which extracts the logs out from a database instead of a text file. It has some useful features, such as slicing a specific time interval from the logs.

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      Yes, that’s very nice when you are already storing that something in a database. I said “suppose”.