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:
4 gigabytes recommended for Vista...
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
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
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
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
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