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Haha :) I just checked MSDN docs and vioala: PROCESS_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN - Not supported under Win2003 or Windows XP. Another improvement from Microsoft with
by Borg3 3y ago
Haha :) I just checked MSDN docs and vioala:
PROCESS_MODE_BACKGROUND_BEGIN - Not supported under Win2003 or Windows XP.
Another improvement from Microsoft without really understanding their own OS.
- jacobgorm 3y agoI think they understood their OS and memory model better than most commenters in this thread do. I was once paid to read most of Windows Internals 5 and try to understand their memory management concepts, some of which date back to VMS, and most of them actually make a lot of sense. The Background mode has its merits too, but I guess they never imagined that a background process would need to spend huge amounts of memory just to do some background work.
- Filligree 3y agoHuge? The limit is 32MiB. That isn’t large by any measure.
- Borg3 3y agoYeah, especially it was intruduced with Win7 AFAIR. So processes were already pretty inflated ;)
- jacobgorm 3y agoWin7 was supposed to be usable with 1GiB of RAM, so 32MiB for some low priority background task seems quite reasonable. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-system-requirements-df0900f2-3513-a851-13e7-0d50bc24e15f https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-7-system...
- Dylan16807 3y agoI wouldn't really count the 32 bit version, but either way windows 10 has the exact same requirements as windows 7. Actually 7 was higher by a gigabyte if you wanted XP mode! So if you agree this would have been a bad limit in 2020, then that suggests it also would have been a bad limit in 2010.
- Borg3 3y agoSure, most of time im very happy with Win2003. Pretty solid OS. There are some issues, too bad never resolved, like PageFile management and Cache management for example. I bet there are more...