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86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory
CWmike writes "Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'"
It's Windows. It might be a bug.
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First we had submitters who didn't read the stories they were posting. Then we had editors who didn't read the stories they were approving. Now we have companies who don't read the articles they put out. Seriously, it's called a file cache. That's how it's supposed to work. Nice job, idiots.
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And just to swim in anecdotal waters, when I copied big piles of files to my GRiDPad 1910 via null modem cable using Microsoft's classic INTERLNK and INTERSVR for file sharing, SMARTDRV sped up the copy operations by about an order of magnitude. Life without disk caching isn't worth living.
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You mean your machine with 8GB RAM never hits swap? Wow. Shock. Color me surprised! O_o
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