Phillip Jones avait prétendu : > Daniel wrote: >> Mark Hansen wrote: >>> On 2/23/2010 4:55 AM, Daniel wrote: >>>> chicagofan wrote: >>>>> Mark Hansen wrote: >>>>>> On 2/22/2010 6:40 PM, chicagofan wrote: >>>>>>> Just for the heck of it, I checked my CPU usage again just now, and it >>>>>>> showed SM using 177MB. Is that normal? >>>>>>> bj >>>>>> >>>>>> 177MB is not CPU, it's memory, and 177MB doesn't seem all that much. >>>>>> Mine is using 340MB for example. But then my machine has 2GB total RAM. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sorry, I don't get the semantics right half the time. I have 1GB RAM, >>>>> and 177 MB seemed like a lot to me. :) >>>>> bj >>>>> >>>> >>>> (I was going to type "bite my tongue....bite my tongue" as I did in >>>> another thread, but, instead....) >>>> >>>> My question might be "If you've got 1GByte, why is your system not using >>>> 1GByte??" >>>> >>>> Why do people want lots of memory but complain if their system dares to >>>> use it?? >>>> >>>> Daniel >>> >>> He didn't say his system was using 177MB. He said SM was using 177MB. >> >> O.K. then the question should be "If you've got 1GByte, why is your >> system not using all its 1GByte to run SM??" >> >> Daniel
> It shouldn't. The system be it Mac, Window, Unix, Linux, BEOS, > NextStep, should have number one attention. Then any applications should > divvy up what's left over. And the should completely release for use by > other applications or the system as needed. In Practice though most > systems/applications they grow as needed but don't shrink. once they use > a certain amount they will be allocated that amount until the are closed > and quit and then reopened. Off loading memory on to hard drive slows > down computing by a factor of the drive speed. If You can have enough > memory (RAM) so that the system and any applications never use the Hard > drive then the computing becomes fast and efficient. The more Caching is > done on the Hard drive the slower things go. According today's System > Sizes and application sizes (memory usage) we need now a minimum of 8GB > just to do every day computing without getting bogged down. What OS can address that 8GB ram? -- [URL=http://users.kbc.skynet.be/fi001005] *Belgische Ardennen - Ardennes Belge [/URL] _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
