Suedkiez
April 13, 2025, 8:12am
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bearFNF:
According to google:
I have seen one or two mentions of better performance with 32 GB. They mentioned that accessing the server from an Iphone.seemed smoother?
Google and these people are wrong. If it does not crash, more RAM is NOT needed. (There is the dual channel thing on motherboards that support it, but these are small percentages in theoretical performance. Anyway there is only one slot in the N1)
A symptom of needing RAM is a crash, nothing else. Roon OS does not have a swap file or do anything else memory based on the SSD. It’s all in RAM.
If you added RAM, you shouldn’t feel any changes other than “its not crashing anymore”.
If you weren’t crashing before, adding RAM will not cause your system to speed up (Nucleus doesn’t swap), and should have zero other impact other than growth potential. Roon doesn’t use more RAM just because it has access to it.
We do not throttle RAM usage. If you got a performance increase from replacing the RAM, it’s because the RAM got faster, or you are experiencing a placebo effect.
If you have too little RAM, Roon does not use slower storage to keep working, it just runs out and crashes.
Some systems (windows, macos, many linux distributions, etc…), depending on the install, will swap out the contents of less commonly used physical RAM to SSD/HDD. On those systems, you would feel a massive performance drop if …
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