2GB
… of RAM. As of some time today, there is 2GB of RAM in my laptop. That’s twice that size than before. As I expected, boot time and the overall performance did not improve that much. On the other hand startup time for VS2010, Photoshop and the like did in fact improve a lot.
The in-depth explanation for that is when you start a program, the operating system checks whether there is enough space in the physical RAM. Note: With Vista and 1GB of RAM, there is hardly enough space for Notepad. If there isn’t, then it moves some stuff to the virtual memory which is on the HDD. Think about it… Starting a program like Photoshop, which in itself may use up well more than 500MB of RAM, after a while the opsys is writing parts of the program that is startin up to the disk. Bit of overhead, ain’t it? Reading the program from the disk just to write it back…
Finally some numbers. With 1GB of RAM, VS2008 alone would use up 9x%. Now with 2GB of RAM, having VS2010 and Photoshop running, memory consumption totals at 63%. Sweet.
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Holy shit, how long have you been using your laptop like that? It’s a wonder that it was actually running! Even 2 GB is considered to be pretty low for vista.
I’ve been using it for about one and a half years without serious problems, but a little speed always helps. And the fact that the laptop can’t take more than 2GB really limits my options.
Ahahah, it’s a simple question of patience
. Anyway, back in the foggy past, when I wasn’t that much of a linux guy, my Vista used to boot in less than a minute and was quite useable with a single gig of ram.
Speaking of patience… Anyone know a failsafe way to remove the Sitecore CMS? ‘Cause it’s Uninstaller creached my system three times today and haven’t deleted a single bit… It’s kinda annoying, not to mention the 403MB of space that I could put to much better use… So… Anyone?
Are you a linux guy?
:D