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#16
07-27-2012, 07:06 PM
 Still, the pagefile is not harmful to keep around and potentially harmful to turn off, even if you have more memory than you can use. It has to do with Windows' memory architecture and claims to the contrary just don't understand the way Windows looks at memory. Last edited by redmaxx; 07-27-2012 at 07:10 PM.. Steve Gibson on password policies [grc.com]: I mean, I don't get this change it every eight weeks. ... It's not as if passwords are traveling by camel after they've been stolen, going to the bad guys, and so there's, like, some weird eight-week window, like, oh, we're going to change your password so that the stale password no longer works. ... And all this does is make IT people despised because users, who are not dumb, they think, why am I - why do I have to do this? What problem is this solving?
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07-27-2012, 08:40 PM
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photoshop frequently maxes out my ram ( or most of it), I have 16gb and like to "stitch" together panoramic shots - other than that though, it almost never gets close to maxed (even when running games like sc2 and D3)
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07-30-2012, 01:59 AM
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Good Efforts well put,
Thanks for sharing. |
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07-30-2012, 06:00 AM
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1) good job on getting a sticky, maybe we need this for viruses also.
2) a few good post though here, maybe moving it in to all in to a wiki so its in one place? ....
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07-30-2012, 12:56 PM
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i use premiere pro and photoshop and after effects and it routinely eats up my 16gb ... i'm ready to double.
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07-31-2012, 05:48 AM
Thanks, good idea - done! |
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07-31-2012, 09:55 PM
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#23
08-01-2012, 05:18 AM
 No matter how hard I try to twist that sentence around to make some sense, the only thing that comes to mind is the mechanic telling the lady that the rhemofram has worn out and and in turn affected the kadiddle and that if she doesn't change them right now, the heart gear will surely blow..... Last edited by RockySosua; 08-01-2012 at 05:20 AM.. |
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08-05-2012, 10:00 AM
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Thanks.. I am having 853 MBs on standby. Meanwhile, I am getting notifications from AVG that my browser is running high on memory. So, I can conclude that I don't require more memory.
But, will adding more memory help or enhance speeds? I use Kingston 2GB 1333hz. Will it make a difference if I add 2GB more of G.skill ram 1600? Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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08-05-2012, 05:33 PM
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I am one of those who generally runs out of RAM regularly, but that is because I administer and develop for multiple operating systems and will often have 8 or more VMs open at a time, or else I am booted into Windows and editing HD video. For the average user having the 18GB of RAM that I have is just stupid and there is no call for it. The two scenarios that I happen work with are about the only ones I know where you need more than 8GB of RAM.
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08-06-2012, 05:32 AM
You would have to replace all of your slower RAM as well to see any speed increase, and that increase would be pretty marginal - meaning it would be measurable, but probably not noticable. |
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08-06-2012, 05:46 AM
It has nothing to do with that. It is what it says it is, a notification of a program that is using large amounts of memory, nothing more, nothing less. Jeffbx has explained about the ram speeds, but bear in mind, that if your machine is a bit short of memory, which it appears to be if you only have 2 gigs, then you could use another 2 gigs, regardless of which speed you choose. |
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08-06-2012, 09:46 AM
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What's annoying me is Chrome using so many processes, including for each plugin.
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08-06-2012, 10:28 AM
I like some of the Firefox features and that's why I put up with the massive amounts of resources it takes, but when it comes to speed and working flawlessly, IE works the best for me. Bear in mind, that if IE is all messed up with add-ons, hijackers, toolbars, cookies, etc, it may work like krap, but properly maintained, I think it's the best. |
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08-08-2012, 10:50 AM
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippe...emory.aspx But hey, if you can't believe one of Microsoft's principal software design engineers (who regularly works close to the hardware, since he's in compiler development, where memory is kind of important...) then who can you believe? Oh right, some random person on a deals site that fixes computers by not really caring how they work under the hood.
I also informed him it was a gross oversimplification of the way Windows handles memory, and that it's useful for understanding why a pagefile is useful even if you're not using all of your physical RAM. When you look at RAM as a performance optimization for disk, you understand that programs can allocate much more memory than there is RAM available. Windows accomplishes this through the pagefile. So even if you have 16 GB of RAM, you could open a 64 GB file, for example, because Windows can allocate enough memory in the pagefile to fulfill the application's request. Again, this is an oversimplification of how memory allocation works but I used it just to illustrate the most obvious case of why turning off a pagefile is bad. You don't know how all the programs on your system were written, and one of them could attempt to allocate more memory than is physically available. Without a pagefile, that operation will fail, potentially with disastrous consequences. Why turn off the page file? It's not harming anything. Last edited by redmaxx; 08-08-2012 at 11:04 AM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost |
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