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86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory

Posted by samzenpus on from the brand-new-resource-hog dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:When do people get this by theaveng · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or people that take the time to explain WHY my post was wrong. Which part is wrong? Where I said my brothers Win7 machine runs slower than my XP machine? That's not something you can demonstrate, because you have not seen his machine or my machine.

    What else was wrong? The part where I said Puppy Linux runs like a speed demon, because it sits wholly-and-completely in RAM? Perhaps I did make an error there, but I don't think so. Puppy IS fast.

    Maybe the part about HDD caching slowing things down?

    I could be wrong there, since I'm not an expert but I remember the dark, dark days when my computer when spend 2-3 minutes just to redraw a Word document. Why? Because it was using the HDD like memory, instead of using the actual memory. It seems to me that this problem, while minimized, has never completely gone away.

    Anyway telling me "you're wrong" doesn't enlighten either me, or the other readers. Please elucidate.

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  2. Re:When do people get this by dhavleak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You mean, the fucking TFA aricle?

  3. Re:When do people get this by bonch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ladies and gentleman, I present to you the "texting" style of writing.