On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:41:28 -0000, John Williamson wrote:

On 09/01/2014 21:21, Uncle Peter wrote:

With Windows 7 and 8 I never use less than 8GB. 16GB if you're doing
anything more than just word processing or emails. Less memory is not
only slower, but wears tou the hard disk swapping.

You're obviously not on a normal laptop, then.

What has lap/desktop to do with it? It's what programs I use.

Shrug I normally find that the swapping stops at around 2 Gig. My
normal RAM usage on the netbook is just over a gig, unless I'm
transcoding video, and that program seems to have developed a memory
leak lately. As it's the same .exe file that worked well until recently,
it's probably a changed .dll in the rendering library.

I'm using 5.1GB right now (with 3 programs and some background things running). With 8GB that would leave me with only 2.9GB for a disk cache, which is pathetic. With 2 Gig I'd be swapping the majority of the programs to disk. I usually find that you should use less than half your memory for a decent speed, leaving over half for the disk cache.

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