When 16GB RAM is not enough?

[Chompineer]

As a college student, I have found 8gb not yet to be an issue with Pages, Numbers, Safari, and the occasional Zoom open.

That wouldn't be a problem on 4GB. People seem to think they need a lot more memory than they do.

 

[jerryk]

No issues or setbacks yet for Office 365, Zoom meeting, Safari tabs ( some footages simultaneously).

But a beach ball appeared when I synced OneDrive for the first time, memory pressure was not high then though.

OneDrive does the equivalent of a beachball on my i9900K, 64 GB, 4 TB SSD, 2-RTX-2700 GPU equipped Windows 10 system. Lots of places along the pipeline to and from the MS Servers can bottleneck OneDrive.

 

[Spindel]

OneDrive does the equivalent of a beachball on my i9900K, 64 GB, 4 TB SSD, 2-RTX-2700 GPU equipped Windows 10 system. Lots of places along the pipeline can to and from the MS Servers can bottleneck OneDrive.

OneDrive is a crap piece of software.

Sometimes on my intel iMac it would just stop responding and started to eat RAM, max I did see it use on that one was 19 GB (out of 24 GB) before I force quit it. I’ve had the same thing happend on my M1 Mini 16 GB (onedrive through rosetta) and max usage I’ve observed is 16 GB (and it forced the system to a 6 gb swap).

OneDrive is just bad, I only use it because of work.

EDIT:// Made a thread out of frustration a while back https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/onedrive-is-a-piece-of-software.2271163/

 

[Ethosik]

^This.

I recall some tests (from MaxTech on YouTube and Puget Systems) that showed very little improvement in video editing performance in Davinci Resolve and Premiere Pro beyond 32GB RAM or 16-cores.

Video RAM was important though, and high-resolution video (6K, 8K) benefitted from large amounts of VRAM.

For 1080p video editing, 8GB is plenty. I would recommend 16GB for 4K

 

[SuperMikey]

I've found a use case that causes some issues for my 16gb mbp, and makes me pleased I went for this over the 8gb.

This is working on a Unity project and using the 'Deep Profiling' option in the profiler tool. Normal workflow and 'regular' profiling is fine, it's just this specific case that really pushes things.