On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:55:45 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?
>
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>| Windows Vista has a radically different approach to memory
>| management.
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| At the time this screenshot was taken, this machine had a few
>| instances of IE7 running, plus one remote desktop. I'm hardly
>| doing anything at all, yet I only have 6 megabytes of free
>| physical memory.
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>http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
>
>I have included a couple of items on Linux resource usage. They are at the
>bottom.
>
>
>Related:
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>4 gigabytes recommended for Vista...
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>Buying a new PC? 'Windows Vista Capable' barely hits the mark
>
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>| Microsoft's on-the-box minimum RAM requirement "really isn't
>| realistic," according to David Short, an IBM consultant who works
>| in its company's Global Services Divison. He says users should
>| consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance.
>| With 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that's
>| "sub-XP," he warned.
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>http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9011523
>http://tinyurl.com/2x29tu
>
>
>Windows Vista consumes 600MB of RAM with no apps running
>
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>| closed the sidebar, but sidebar.exe is still alive and using 26MB.
>| Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) is using 55MB. The Search
>| Indexer is consuming 30MB. Even the recommended 1GB of RAM might not
>| leave much room for applications on Vista.
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>http://vistaonamacbookpro.info/?p=108
>
>
>Allchin's 'Buy a Mac' E-Mail Exposed
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>| "I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do
>| what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage
>| system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we
>| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>| need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to
>| heart. Jim"
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>http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/allchins_buy_a_mac_email_exposed.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
>http://tinyurl.com/y5cuu6
>
>
>Testing Vista's different memory configurations
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>| You simply cannot play games on Vista with 512MB o memory, at least not the
>| games wen tested. You will sometimes get playable scores but even then the
>| experience and the load time will be ridiculous.
>|
>| Anything more than 512MB will help you a lot, with 2x1GB being the best
>| price performance buy.
>|
>| 4x1GB is the best choice for best raw performance. It is hard to prove it
>| ^^^^^
>| in every test, but if you have 2x1GB and you load as much in memory, the
>| ^^^^^
>| system will become endessly slow.
>| ^^^^
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>http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36148
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>
>Vista Runs Smooth Only on 2G Memory
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>| However, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins suggested otherwise on Thursday, 26 Oct at
>| a speech at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. "I think they tell you maybe 1
>| gig of memory is OK. No, two gigs of memory would be great."
>|
>| This echoes with my own experience with Vista RC2. With only 1G of
>| RAM, there are many disk activities indicating heavy disk swap, a
>| symptom of lack of memory in the system.
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>http://www.itechnote.com/2006/10/27/vista-runs-smooth-only-on-2g-memory/
>
>
>Vista System Memory Concerns
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>| Vista: Facing a Slow Adoption. In the beginning, early adopters and
>| gamers who are looking to ready themselves for the DirectX 10 upgrade
>| will be best suited for those ready to make an investment in the
>| unknown.
>|
>| Considering how many software and game titles will likely need to
>| be run in "compatibility mode" until patches are released across
>| the board, I would suggest really looking at what Vista's advantages
>| are before taking the plunge.
>|
>| No matter how much we may wish to see the path Vista is about to
>| embark on, the fact remains that because of its hardware requirements,
>| Vista adoption may turn out to be rather slow.
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>http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2395&Itemid=449
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>
>Microsoft Windows Is A Greedy Memory Hog, The Cure Is To Feed It RAM
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>| For Windows 2000, XP, 512MB is the minimum and 1GB or more is recommended.
>| For Windows 98 any flavor, 256MB is the minimum and 1GB is recommended. If
>| you are an avid PC gamer or video editor, 1GB is the minimum
>| recommendation. Other operating systems such as Linux or Mac are similar.
>| Simply put: more is better.
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>http://bytepowered.org/articles/Article/Microsoft-Windows-Is-A-Greedy-Memory-Hog--The-Cure-Is-To-Feed-It-RAM/539
>http://tinyurl.com/yn9ztx
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>
>
>Linux memory benchmarks:
>
>What about the performance and memory usage of KDE and GNOME?
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>| In this particular test, KDE and some typical KDE applications were
>| found to consume 143.2 MB of RAM. GNOME and comparable GNOME
>| applications consumed 174.8 MB. XFCE and some third-party
>| applications comparable to the ones used for GNOME and KDE
>| consumed 206.8 MB of RAM.
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>http://pinderkent.blogsavy.com/archives/35
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>| "I did install SuSE 7.3 on a Dyme 166 MHz machine with 32 MB installed and
>| I used KDE 2.2 from July 2003 to December 2004 to write my documents,
>| develop my compiler and browse the web."
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>http://thebeez.vnunetblogs.com/the_beez_speaks/2006/10/the_unknown_sol.html
I've got several Fujitsu 486/50 pen tablets with great little color
screens.
They keep asking for Linux. Won't be long.
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