>start compressing 20 gb of tars with 7zip
>uses a lot of CPU power as expected, so I set its affinity to half my cores
>computer gets sluggish as it never was since i built it
>open task manager
>7zip is taking 4 gb of RAM for itself
EXCUSE ME
>I don't know how compression works
>>54454584
Dumbass
>>54454584
>i don't know how the fuck to use 7zip
>i'm too retarded for dictionary sizes
>i'm too retarded to understand the simple as fuck 7zip gui
Good, unused RAN is wasted RAM anyway.
>>54454584
>Shitty toaster get slow when software use the resources you tell it to use
Gee, I wonder who's fault is here.
>>54454584
Your fault for not getting 16 GB, especially when you're using a bloated OS like Windows that eats up ~2-4GB by itself.
>>54454584
If they're already tar'd then use xz. It's the same algorithm
Why? Did you fart?
>>54454584
>4gb
you shouldnt worry
you still should have 12gb of ram left
