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

[M Paul Webb]

However, I now have 7 on a 64bit with 2GB ram, and it does just fine --- (I think.(I do mean to take it to 4GB at the right time, but it surely does not seem necessary for Ubuntu, but who knows). Periodically, the cursor freezes with the touchpad, but I think that is just the operating system, not the ram.  But I do a large library of books, a GUI web designer, and DTP just fine. Overall, I don't like 7 at all. XP is still the best (definition of "best" relative). However, why on earth would anyone compare 7 to Linux? I think 7 is primitive comparatively. However, I still need Windows for certain programs (but my day will come). And 7 does not have any of my printer drivers!!!!! So I still have an old laptop with XP, and it runs Xubuntu really nice.


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 From: Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net>
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Subject: Re: [clue] Windows 7 memory usage - anyone got true facts?
 

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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