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faster data structure to count word frequency?
EDU> l...@stanford.edu (Larry McVoy) writes: + Reduced memory usage. Lots of shared text. This isn't as a big of win as you might think. Most of memory is used for file I/O and the data segment pages, not text pages. This is the #1 shared library myth. I think that every Unix vendor that has introduced shared

Newshistory checking
But the vendors bear some of the blame because they still today deliver machine with NT and 64Mb of memory. In my opinion, barely usable.) However, it must be stated here that there were a lot of people doing some analysis on memory usage on NT. Most concerned with the 'minimum to run well', which was about double

Vista locks up frequently
(Basically, the object isn't saved unless it gets 2 requests before memory pressure dumps it.) -- Brian On Monday 12 November 2001 10:59 am, you wrote: Hi 5 minute avg: 100.40% CPU Usage, 60 minute avg: 100.40% Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 358 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo():

Linux myths
John Jolet j...@jolet.net linux gentoo user There are too damn many myths about swap out there. Like this one: Always configure twice as much swap as you have ram. Why? Why would I need more swap if I increased my ram? You need at least a little bit of swap for peak memory usage. Let's look at real numbers.

Linux myths
I know the general teaching (myth) is that JavaScript does not need "manual" garbage collecting -- this seems to be changing -- particularly with regard to events I've chased this problem to the point where I was able to determine that it's related to Netscape memory usage. After loading the Windows tool called

the _many_ causes of "mud lag"
Alex Nichol had some minor observations derived from using "Discover Pro" from "Nuts & Bolts" to track memory usage, for a few cases. Re: the non-cached memory: it still fetches far faster than the swap file, under typical conditions. Thanks for the clarification. Next time I see a fire sale on fast page RAM,

Virtual Memory
I think this is a myth. The total amount of memory on your computer is physical memory * virtual memory. All things being equal, you need _less_ swap space if you have Thus if you use lots of apps and don't reboot (rare with Windows I admit) your memory usage just goes up and up. This doesn't apply to Linux.

MU* for Apple II?
Let's dispell the myth that this reduces memory usage. Two configurations used (see below for their details): [1]: text data bss dec hex filename 10868 268 0 11136 2b80 unpatched/fs/partitions/built-in.o 11260 228 0 11488 2ce0 patched/fs/partitions/built-in.o [2]: 7336 248 0 7584 1da0

Who's better for America, Gates or Linus?
[2] Keeping things open increases virtual memory usage, but that by itself has no direct heat related issues. The indirect ones, however, [3] If a CPU bound, memory-intensive task starts to eat into swap, CPU usage goes down, which might cool the CPU. [4] There's going to be a base amount of heat regardless,

Fractals & image compressing
Gary Terhune wrote: This is a total myth. Well, not totally, but close enough. It isn't true. -- Gary Terhune MS MVP Desktop Systems <Pm...@aol.com> wrote in message I use the freeware: MaxMem, to constantly monitor my memory usage. If I use Dragon Naturally speaking, my 128 mb RAM is NOT enough.

XP home and Games for 98SE
That sounds very logical and seems intuitively correct but, my obervations of some pretty heavy server usage (Sun 4/60, 4/75, 4/370 and 4/470) tell me that memory usage _never_ goes above about 8MB when there is only file service being performed by that machine. So, why do we all desperately need so much RAM in a

stringBuilder vs string concatenation myth of usage...
Erik Poupaert writes: "I may also have fallen victim to the myth that automatic garbage collection prevents memory leaks" It gets even more interesting if the When I run my program, with every added action, the memory usage increases but the only memory being allocated in each function is for temporary local

freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1
Try it yourself... disable some services... the memory requirements don't go down much, and the CPU idle time is still at 99%-100%... So even when you disable those services, memory usage remains pegged? Why does MS-WindowsXP need all that memory? Most services are just waiting for something to happen,

Optimizing the system...
It's important to say that my actual virtual memory usage stayed far below that allocation size, for the normal things I do on my computer. It is an urban myth. To establish the minimum you must monitor swapfile size (note that's size, not usage) while Windows manages it for a day or two.

NN4.x holding memory
You will have trouble with printing, graphics drawing, memory usage, etc. ( Search Deja for my earlier posts ) I always believe that the "proof is in the pudding". After all these years there are almost no examples of commercial Java products.By "products" I mean, software programs that can be sold over and over

comp.lang.c Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ List)
Default for Processing scheduling and Memory usage by default is Programs. As for Compatibility Mode, you need to read the information in Help and Support I have things like Space bunnys from outer space > and Horrde > and MYTH The Total Codex > Games that are Disigned for a Win 32 Computer that will not have

no difference in performance
Besides garbage collection That is, encouraging programmers to ignore memory usage, so that they create executables that use far too much RAM. dynamic linking, ie write once, debug everywhere The person forgot to mention the myth "Platform-independent", which your comment also applies to (with the fun of having

Help on swap space size
No wonder people are concerned :) I think if there was concern about memory usage on that scale, windows would not be a viable option and one would have to consider alternatives such as DOS, RTEMS, RTLinux and other small footprint O/S's. Rob "Walter Oney" <walto...@oneysoft.com> wrote in message

Pentium 133 Review Part 2
Most of that myth comes from a mis-interpretation of the effects of Win*95*'s vcache, which caused unnecessary swapping. The NT memory manager is very aggressive and swaps minimized programs out more often than I like. So, if you know you general memory usage, you can safely limit the available RAM to fool the

ora-04030 out of process memory
Most of memory is used for file I/O and the data segment pages, not text pages. In article <1994Jun9.021210.16...@adobe.com> d...@adobe.com (David DiGiacomo) writes: This is the #1 shared library myth. I think that every Unix vendor that has introduced shared libraries has seen dramatically increased memory usage in