[gentoo-user] how to use RAM

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greets, gentoo-users,

as I ordered myself an upgrade from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM for my main
workstation, just because it's rather cheap now and I have good use for
the "old" 4 gigs I wonder what to do with those shiny new additional 4 gigs.

OK, linux uses it for IO-caching, yep ...

I have some ram-disk already for compiling stuff (portage-stuff) and I
can think of increasing app-caches like operas own ram-cache to make use
of the memory.

I will give my virtual machines more RAM to improve their performance,
yes, this is maybe the main reason for me to upgrade RAM.

But are there any other things I might forget?

Are there any creative non-ricer ways to really make use of it?

I would like to hear your opinion on this, I am quite sure the
gentoo-community knows one trick or the other ;-)

Thanks a lot, Stefan