IS future proofing RAM worth it ? 32gb ram ?

[fantasypoo]

I'm a single user and currently my memory usage is around  25% - %30  of 8129 MB.

I'm worried about this and last week I went ahead and ordered another 8gb.

Would it be worth it to buy another 16gb (2x8gb)  to fill the empty slots  ?
ECC memory isn't cheap either which is why I'm curious if its even worth it.

[joppybt]

I am a single user as well and currently use 22% of 512MB. What is eating all your memory?

[fantasypoo]

512mb ram ???Wow!!! you probably don't run any packages.

I'm running both snort and suricata.  Depending on settings they will eat all 8gb ram and 16gb of swap.

[divsys]

I'm running both snort and suricata.  Depending on settings they will eat all 8gb ram and 16gb of swap.

I think you've (partially) answered your own question.
Depending on how much work you're willing to do to manage your Snort/Suricata setup you'll either be fine or will never have enough RAM  ;)

I'd move the discussion over to the IDS/IPS section and see what the current best practices/expectations are.