[Ubuntu-be] Remember - IRC meeting tomorrow Thursday 28/10/2010 at 21.00 hr.

Steven Leeman steven at leeman.be
Thu Oct 28 13:48:42 BST 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Jan Bongaerts <jbongaerts at gmail.com> 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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