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Jan
Nice Article and interesting stats, thanks
Source -Most Windows 7 PCs max out their memory, resulting in performance bottlenecks, a researcher said today.
Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks.
The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory "saturation" point, said Barth. The most recent snapshot of XPnet's 23,000-plus PCs -- taken yesterday -- pegs only 40% of XP systems as running low on memory.
Most Windows 7 PCs max out memory
Jan
Nice Article and interesting stats, thanks
That is something I do not understand. When I walk thru the computer stores, most Win7 systems have 4GBs and more - and they all have 64bit. No way to find a 32bit system which we were looking for because a friend needed that to run a bundle of very expensive programs for her business from 32bit Vista. My win7 systems usually run around 1GB of RAM usage. So where is the problem.
Hmmm...
My internet PC has 2 GB of Ram. Idles between 23-25%. Programs running ~ 30%. Anti-virus scan ~ 40%...
Wonder what software those people are running to get it to run out of memory...
I find it a bit amusing that the average machine running xp now has over 1.7 GB of memory, as according to this article, windows xp started with a minimum requirement of 64 MB.
With 8 GB of memory, and even without running a pagefile, there is still an average of about 3.5 to 4 GB available on my laptop.
Hardly anybody ever ran XP with 64MB of RAM. While it was the minimum...I don't think it was normal. I didn't know many who had less than 256MB.
The XP numbers probably got pumped up by all those double booters on a Vista system.
i've not noticed heavy ram usage in Windows 7. Before my SSD when I ran with prefetch enabled, it would cache a ton of stuff and my ram was utilized...but my page file wasn't getting hit. Since moving to my SSD, with prefetch disabled...i don't usually go over 30% of my RAM...except when I run virtual machines and then I fully expect it.