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Title: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Clive on February 19, 2010, 21:59

Good News: Windows 7 works well. Bad News: Because it's a resource whore.   ::)

LINK (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158258/Most_Windows_7_PCs_max_out_memory)

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Simon on February 19, 2010, 22:09

I'm sure I read a similar article recently, which debunked that theory.

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Clive on February 19, 2010, 22:58

That would have been THIS (http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/behind-the-windows-7-memory-usage-scaremongering.ars) one.   ;D

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Simon on February 19, 2010, 23:06

:)x

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: sam on February 20, 2010, 05:46

Quote from: Clive on February 19, 2010, 21:59

Good News: Windows 7 works well. Bad News: Because it's a resource whore.   ::)

LINK (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9158258/Most_Windows_7_PCs_max_out_memory)

not that shocking then... then again I'm a resource whore right now... I'm currently running software on 10 processors and using up about 24GB of RAM. Nice. Can't wait to get my software installed on the other 40 processors...   :devil:

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Clive on February 20, 2010, 08:25

 :hee-hee:

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Rik on February 20, 2010, 11:30

It's going to make you feel inadequate in the future, Sam. ;D

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: sam on February 20, 2010, 17:04

well we are ramping up to having to deal with 1TB/second .... inadequate indeed!

We now have a 50TB hard drive... :-)

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Rik on February 20, 2010, 17:09

I hope it never crashes! :x:

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: sam on February 20, 2010, 17:30

its raided... so should be fine.... plus all of our raw data is stored on external disks and tape. :-) The only problem is if it did crash it takes a few days todo a fschk... and then would take a week or so if we needed to put the data back on there!

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: Rik on February 20, 2010, 17:31

And I think 10 minutes is bad. ;)

Title: Re: Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Post by: sam on February 20, 2010, 18:01

lol