I might just point out, I'm running Windows 7 and get the errors. Kinda agree on your perspective for keeping developers productive though :).
Chris On 23 July 2010 10:52, Corneliu Tusnea <[email protected]> wrote: > Lol, I don't get it why people get stuck with XP in 32b edition and all > it's limitations. It's an OS designed 14 years ago!!! 14!! And released 12 > years ago. > > Do any of your guys drive a car 14 years old? > > Next thing you should do to yourself: > - remove source control and do manual merges: cost $2000 > - replace your locks from the doors with a dodgy one that takes 15 minutes > to open: cost $500 > and so on :) > Sorry, I have to be a bit sarcastic on this :) > > > How about: > $1600 = 9 W7 Pro Licences if you buy them in a 3 licence pack ( > http://www.myshopping.com.au/PR--335070_Windows_7_Professional) > $2000 = 8Gb of memory for almost all your 7 developers ( > http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=8gb+ddr2&spos=1) > $1000 = 7200rpm HDDs for all your developers > http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=7200rpm+500gb+hdd&spos=1 > > And you'll never see those problems again. > 3 days of "lost" productivity and cost and your are done. You'll start > being productive and remove all your frustrations. > > Corneliu. > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Friday, 23 July 2010 10:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Out of memory exceptions in VS2010 with Silverlight 4 > > Hi all, > > It's Friday, so I thought I would let you know about one issue in our team. > > Basically, we are running 32-bit Windows XP. The machines have anywhere > between 2 and 4GB > RAM. Everyone in the team gets System Out Of Memory Exceptions. When that > happens, you have > wasted the compile time, and then you have to shut down VS2010, start it > up, then open up the > solution. The solution has a significant number of projects in it. > Apparently this problem only > happens in 32-bit windows. > > So for the whole restart process, we have assigned 10 minutes to this > procedure. > > Next we have logged the total crash time for our team of 7 developers (some > days people were > away, but it ultimately doesn't matter). > > The times lost are as follows: > 14th 240 mins > 15th 100 mins > 18th 120 mins > 19th 60 mins > 20th 200 mins > 21st 100 mins > 22nd 140 mins > > we have assigned an arbitrary value against the times of $100/hour. So the > loss of productivity is > 16 hours @ $100/hour = $1600. > > Hopefully soon these figures will become a significant enough figure to > justify an upgrade! > > Regards, > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight > _______________________________________________ > ozsilverlight mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozsilverlight >
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