> > Short of that, if you hear a lot of disk activity for no > obvious reason > and the task manager shows a fair bit of virtual memory use, it is > likely worth adding RAM. You'll get a small performance gain, and > lower the risk of ever getting into thrashing. >
but before doing that it's worthwhile understanding what is actually running there. A lot of windows programs seem to install start-up programs and services which are 'helpful', but which do very little other than consume resources. For instance, Lightroom installs something which is supposed to autodetect when you put a disk in, and start the Import routine. For 99.999...% of the time all it does is fill up your memory, waking up from time to time, and sometimes locking everything out. The cost far outweighs the benefit, so it's worth getting rid of it, and when you do want to import something, do it manually. Quicktime ditto is a pos that you might as well get rid of. Somethings, on the other hand, you're stuck with. For instance, the software that drives my wifi modem has really poor memory management, and leaks all over the place, forcing me to reboot at least once a week. MS Excel also does weird things, sometimes making my mouse go crazy. You'd think after all these years they have got it right by now. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
