Comment by rhdunn

It depends on what you are doing.

If you are working on an application that has several services (database, local stack, etc.) as docker containers, those can take up more memory. Especially if you have large databases or many JVM services, and are running other things like an IDE with debugging, profiling, and other things.

Likewise, if you are using many local AI models at the same time, or some larger models, then that can eat into the memory.

I've not done any 3D work or video editing, but those are likely to use a lot of memory.