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

[William Smith II]

Hi Bruce, I've had a "widget CPU and Ram meter" running on my desktop
since last year. I'm running 7 ultimate 64 bit and a quad core with 8
gigs of ram and unless I'm doing CFD or CAE stuff I never see the RAM
meter over 4 gigs 50%, most of the time it's around 2 gigs or 20% and
that's just with the desktop running. Like right now and firefox up.
Hope this helps. Bill Smith

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net> wrote:
> 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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