[clue] Windows 7 memory usage - anyone got true facts?

Dan Kulinski daniel at kulinski.net
Mon May 7 10:27:52 MDT 2012


Windows will pre-emptively page applications to disk. It has done this for
a long time.  As for memory, 2GB should run just fine, but 64bit windows 7
will take advantage of more than 3.5GB of RAM.  In fact we have laptops
running around with 8GB where this wasn't really possible with 64bit
Windows XP (poor driver/application support).

One thing that I have noticed is that Windows 7 seems to be much better
with more than one CPU core.

Dan

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Bruce Ediger <bediger at stratigery.com>wrote:

> At work, there's a pilot project to upgrade to Windows 7 (and IE 9,
> we're currently stuck on IE7).  My group's pilot project designee
> had to upgrade her laptop to 4 *Gigabytes* RAM to be able to run
> Windows 7 and some applications.
>
> Since it's impossible to get true answers at work, what exactly does
> Windows 7 do with 4 *Gigabytes* RAM?  My current laptop, an elderly
> HP/Compaq N8000, has 2 Gig, and it just doesn't ever swap, as near as I
> can tell, unless I deliberately write a program to allocate all memory.
> What does Windows 7 do that's so special?  Is there any other answer
> than "We upgrade because Microsoft tells up to"?
>
> On a software engineering note, how does Microsoft (the development
> staff) deal with the code base that uses that much memory?  That size
> code base has to be exhausting to maintain - how do they counteract
> the human tendency towards shortcuts and quick fixes?
>
> Signed,
> Befuddled in Denver
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