[openbeos] Re: on the subject of virtual memory...
- From: "Travis Smith" <sage@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:47:38 -0500
From looking at memory usage in WinXP Pro, I've noticed that even when I
pulled my ram down to 256Meg from 1gig I have to see performance
differences, Windows appears to never use up all of my ram unless I
opened many applications. It went for the page file for some of it way
before it used all of the ram when I put it all back in. I found that
kind of odd, but don't have anything to profile the usage well. I was
just playing around.
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Travis Smith
sage at ieee dot org
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[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Jeppesen
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 7:45 PM
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Subject: [openbeos] on the subject of virtual memory...
I dont think vitual memory is needed nearly as much as it was 2 or 3
years ago. I recently built my own computer and got 1 gig of DDR ram for
85$ from crucial, cheap for that much. Now I was expecting to beable to
disable the vitual memory in windows xp/2k to speed things up. I was
wrong, its hardcoded in the kernel to always use vitual memory. On a
fresh reboot windows has 60megs of swap, this is redicuolus. RAM prices
get cheaper and cheaper, soon 1 gig of ram will be the norm. Even the
biggest programs will not use this memory, and if they do get 2 gigs of
ram. virtual memory is hard to write and slows even the fastes computer
reading and writing from the HD. Is it really worth the effort? I love
the fact after 1 week of continous use, AtheOS never slows down and is
very responsive, not the same for win2k/xp even with a 1.4 gig athon 1
gig ram and raid 0.
Kurt you know much more than I and I'd love to get your oppinon on this
subject.
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