Phillip Jones avait prétendu : > Bernard Mercier wrote: >> 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? >> > Mac OSX Snow Leopard (its 64 bit) and can actually address up to 16 GB. > I wouldn't be terribly surprised if windows 7 64 bit couldn't. Thank you to remind me about the 64-bit OS aspect. I didn't think about it.
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