On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Jan Bongaerts <[email protected]> wrote:
> d that Windows reserves a lot of memory that it's not actively using > (perhaps another reason why it needs more memory to begin with) and that > it's caching system is not as hot as Linux's. Apparently Windows resorts to > the hard disk more than Linux. > I found a lot of articles and/or forum entries to that respect when > googling around. > Being a layman, when surfing the net it's hard to differentiate between > well-founded truths and urban myth hogwash. > wel... windows uses a pagefile.sys located on thesame system partition; Linux allways ask/uses/installs a special "swap" partition windows preloads certain dll's in it's precache folder... this was allready there in Windows XP in windows 7 they also introduced "prefetch" more info& screenshots here : http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/02/behind-the-windows-7-memory-usage-scaremongering.ars where you will see : memory : total, cached, available and Free and it's for some reason that "new" laptops have at least 3gbyte ram :-)
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