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I can verify this anecdotally. I just bought a cheap Dell laptop with Win7 for my father-in-law. Awesome machine for the price ($400) and it comes with 3GB of
by stuff4ben 17y ago
I can verify this anecdotally. I just bought a cheap Dell laptop with Win7 for my father-in-law. Awesome machine for the price ($400) and it comes with 3GB of RAM. I'm playing around in it and decide to open Task Manager. Holy moly, 1.7GB of RAM is being used and I just have IE8 pointed to the default MSN homepage. I had no other apps open at the time, not even Windows Explorer. I boot my MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard and open Firefox and it consumes just around 300MB total. Even WinXP with Outlook 2007 running in VirtualBox on my Linux machine is using only 270MB of RAM.
What the heck is using all that memory in Win7? And why? Or is this a case of Win7 using the available/unused memory for caching kinda like what Linux does?
- DougBTX 17y agoAnd why? That's the important question, why? To decrease performance or increase performance? The article assumes that it decreases performance, but provides no evidence to back that up.
- jcl 17y agoOr is this a case of Win7 using the available/unused memory for caching kinda like what Linux does? And, if so, whose bright idea was it to tell the user that this memory was "unavailable" in the task manager? The whole thing is rather silly. "Operating system X prints this number, while totally different operating system Y prints a much bigger, possibly unrelated number! Everybody panic!"