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Skriven 2005-07-07 10:06:08 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
   Kommentar till text 9084 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Lap Top problems
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JE>Thanks Jean, but I do not think so. The problem with the Dell are too
JE>little memory. 256 Mb with part of it taken up by video memory is just
JE>too small for decent running of XP home. The sweet point for memory with
JE>XP is 384Mb WITHOUT any being used by video. 512 Mb is better.

 TW>  you stil maintian that V Despite the FACT that Microsoft
 TW> themselves  says that XP can run with some slowdown on 64 Meg. They
 TW> do Recommend  128 though. So How can you Flatly say that 256 is NOT
 TW> enough?? ---

practicle experiance... for one thing, MS knows that the system will use a
major amount of swapfile but they do not take the transfer speed to and from
the harddrive into account...

/optimum/ performance is gained when one can get the entire OS loaded fully
into memory along with any needed drivers and whatever programs or services are
needed to operate the machine in the desired manner...

under win9x, i demonstrated this with the use of the System Monitor tool and
turning on some of the additional monitors... especially the ones dealing with
allocated memory, swapfile size and swapfile used... the main one being
allocated memory... if that was greater than the physical memory in the
machine, then there was swapfile useage and that usage would slow the machine
due to the bottleneck at the harddrive...

of course, also optimizing the system such that unneeded programs weren't being
loaded also played a big part... things like the Office preloader, the AOL
preloader, and other preloaders (mozilla, firefox, and thunderbird also have
them) consume memory and slow the system down unless there is enough physical
memory to hold all that they allocate... stopping these preloaders from running
does cause a longer delay in starting those applications but that is generally
much easier to live with than a system that is sluggish all the time...

)\/(ark

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