windows, as such, is bloated. Most computer come with 512 of memory, but that is not even enough to load the core OS. Then there is all the apps that someone loads, so the machine is using the virtual disk drive which is a hard disk file, Usually this file is scattered all over the disk, because someone did not set it to a fixed size at the get go, or has not used something like Norton Speed disk. The defrag on Windows will consolidate files but not move the most active files to the outside of the disk. Norton Speed disk will consolidate better and move the virtual memory to the outside of the hardisk. The virtual file needs to be at the outside of the disk plater for faster disk access. You can reduce the virtual memory usage by adding a couple gigs of memory. This speeds up a windows machine considerable. If you computer can put 4-8 gigs of memory in, then you can use the extra, that the os does not recognize as ram disk drive and put the extra virtual memory file on it.
Ashish Vijaywargiya sent the following on 5/29/2009 12:42 AM: > Hello David, > > Would me more then happy to know your thoughts about such a big time > consumed on Windows machine? > I have the same experience with Windows box. > > Thanks in advance. > -- > Ashish > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM, David E Jones <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> What kind of hardware are you running this on? >> >> I've heard of long build/install/run times on Windows because of the >> synchronous IO, but usually on Linux it's not too bad. On my tiny laptop it >> takes about 30 minutes on Windows and about 5 minutes on Linux to do an "ant >> run-install" from source code only (ie nothing pre-built). >> >> -David >> >> > -- BJ Freeman http://www.businessesnetwork.com/automation http://bjfreeman.elance.com http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=1237480&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Systems Integrator.
