Ian, I doubled my virtual ram and the disk acess dropped dramitically. 99SE is runnning much better
Mike Reagan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 5:13 AM Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP is a dog > No problems here with 99SE under XP, certainly faster than Win2K. Disk is > hardly accessed, except after a very long day using Protel PCB when Protel > appears to be hogging 100's of Meg of memory. A Protel 99SE restart to > release the memory and all is fine. > > I would hazard to suggest your XP problems are caused by something else > other than Protel and XP. > > Ian > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: 20 June 2002 16:14 > > To: Protel EDA Forum > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP is a dog > > > > > > > some system monitors. Looks like XP eats about 100 meg of memory > > without > > > anything else running. That's real efficient. I dont code but it > > should > > > use about 10K. I was using NT for the past 5 out 6 years, until > > last > > > year when I couldnt bear the installation, network setup, and > > the patches > > > Microsoft added to make NT more windows/ multimedia compatible any more. > > I > > > figured why try to make it compatible, why not use the real thing. I > > stick > > > my conclusion, XP is a dog. > > > > OK, I am less than impressed by Microsoft too, but 10K? Even embedded > > versions of DOS take up at least 64K. I do admit 100M is way too big > > though. What are they doing with all that RAM? I know a programming guru > > who says that the way Windows processes keystrokes is amazingly > > inefficient. > > He says thay allocate a chunk of memory and copy an event buffer or some > > such block of data, appending the new event in the process. And this is > > done with each press of the key or mouse click! No wonder the > > resources get > > fragmented on a Win9X/ME system! > > > > Just so folks know, recent versions of Linux are hogs too. And > > slow! Well, > > not the underlying OS, but the window manager on top of the OS. > > Yes, that's > > right folks, the window manager and the OS are separate and > > distinct things > > in Linux, not all thrown together and inseparable like Windows. Try > > browsing files and directories on KDE desktop on Linux, and compare it to > > browsing directories with Windows Explorer. I have a dual-boot SuSE 7.3 / > > Win98SE machine at home, and browsing in Linux is MUCH slower > > than browsing > > in Windows. > > > > That said, I still (mostly) like Linux, I still (mostly) like > > Windows, and I > > still think Microsoft is digging their own grave. Their > > licensing policies > > are acting like better and better shovels, and Linux makes the ground > > softer! > > > > Best regards, > > Ivan Baggett > > Bagotronix Inc. > > website: www.bagotronix.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mike Reagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:44 PM > > Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP is a dog > > > > > > > You are probably right Brad. Most of the comments were W2000. > > I received > > > some comments from other engineers that he had no problems with > > XP/ Protel > > > combo. Anyway, XP has the same delays I see with NT with certain > > > commands ie place track there are long delays which I did not see in W98 > > > unless my client rcs and ini files got corrupted. I just installed > > > some system monitors. Looks like XP eats about 100 meg of memory > > without > > > anything else running. That's real efficient. I dont code but it > > should > > > use about 10K. I was using NT for the past 5 out 6 years, until > > last > > > year when I couldnt bear the installation, network setup, and > > the patches > > > Microsoft added to make NT more windows/ multimedia compatible any more. > > I > > > figured why try to make it compatible, why not use the real thing. I > > stick > > > my conclusion, XP is a dog. > > > > > > > > > Mike Reagan > > > EDSI > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************ > > * Tracking #: 6FC3EB9061CAED47A35393ECA6970857C67D5043 > > * > > ************************************************************************ > > > > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
