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Ars Analysis Calls Windows 7 Memory Usage Claims "Scaremongering"
Via newsycombinator comes a reaction at Ars Technica to the recently reported claims of excessive memory use on machines running Windows 7. From the article: "I installed the XPnet performance monitoring tool and waited for it to upload my data to see what it might be complaining about. The cause of the problem was immediately apparent. It's no secret that Windows 7, just like Windows Vista before it, includes aggressive disk caching. The SuperFetch technology causes Windows to preload certain data if the OS detects that it is used regularly, even if there is no specific need for it at any given moment. Though SuperFetch is a little less aggressive in Windows 7, it will still use a substantial amount of memory—but with an important proviso. The OS will only use memory for cache when there is no other demand for that memory."
It must be a shit technology if this isn't in Linux.
sopssa is from the UK, but he can't speak English very well when his mouth is full of Ballmer cock.
I have the time. So,pray tell, where do I learn the meanings of the various stats in Task Manager? Do you have a link?
rtfm... Oh wait... This is Windows. I could never find the man pages for that system.
Linux itself is a shit technology. That is why nobody uses it.
Windows NT has always been meant as a POSIX compliant replacement for older, inferior systems like UNIX.
I like how Linux stole the idea of using a GUI, mouse and just about everything else directly from Windows, seeing how Linux didn't exist until after Linux Thorvolds was able to analyze and rip-off other operating environments.
You're just bitter because nobody uses Linux and nobody ever will. Windows, on the other hand, is used and adored by billions. There is a reason it turned out this way, Windows is and always has been higher quality than Linux. All Linux managed was to have sloppy, wannabe software that any professional would laugh + point at derisively.