Subj : Re: Windows issues
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Finnigann
Date : Fri Jun 10 2005 05:52 pm

-=> With interpidation and the MAGIC of QWK Mail Angus Mcleod wrote to
Finnigann <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: Windows issues
 AM>   By: Finnigann to Digital Man on Fri Jun 10 2005 06:40:00

 >  DM> Such programs are hogwash. Read http://tinyurl.com/9jzuo for
 >  DM> details.
 >
 > Interesting reading. However the problem remains, when an app says it
 > cannot run for lack of resources... what do you do?

 AM> Make more RAM available by eliminating programs with large
 AM> working-sets, or by buying more RAM.

 You don't seem to have read the link DM gave. Part of the rather long
 web page explained why RAM defragers (or as I was hoping for; Ram
 restorers) is a myth.

And the rest of the article said that if you have xx% free ram, you are
wasting xx%. Well that sort of makes sense, but not logically. Of course
I tend to trail back on the understanding parts.

It has been my understanding that Windows apps fail to restore all of
the allocated resources upon exiting. They are thus lost to the system.
Eventually you must reboot your computer in order to recalim them.

Every version of Windows claims to fix this problem.


 AM> I've always been amused by the idea of "de-fragmenting" RAM in a
 AM> system that used demand-paged virtual memory.  Or paged memory of
 AM> any kind, actually, although paging systems other than
 AM> demand-paging with virtualization are not too easy to find any
 AM> more, for obvious reasons.....

 Defragmenting RAM may be a misnomer.


If anyone has MORE insight on this, I would be fasinated to read about
it.

[Keep in mind lay persons are also reading here]




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