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nickyburnell wrote: Runs like a dog woth 4gb and no swap. (32bit)
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nickyburnell wrote: No, Windows has a swap file (page file/virtual memory) that it uses.
As hard drives are actually slow compared to ram, the holy grail is to run without one.
Real world coding of Windows actually makes it debatable as to whether this is advantageous, but on paper with enough ram it should be cool.
Now we have 64bit the possibilities are endless (for now).
Putting the swap file on a separated drive is seen as advantageous (especially now with dual and quad core) as the mundane swap stuff can be kept away from the actual data processing.
Having it on a separate PARTITON is of no use at all, as this uses the same (IDE/SATA) controller. Has to be a separate drive on a separate channel.
It is a lot more complicated than this explanation, registers, instruction sets.......blah.
nickyburnell wrote: Lev: Are the dual/quad cores able to take advantage of this? Do they realise and split the work load?
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bitzo wrote: you can pimp a bit more your system by enabling hyperthreading. On swap side...there's another technique, buy a sata raid controller, configure a raid 0 with 2 hd (7200rpm, pay attention on cooling), only used for swap. You'll see unique volume for both hd with twice size and speed (just in theory).
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Quite:levyte357 wrote:
nickyburnell wrote: No, Windows has a swap file (page file/virtual memory) that it uses.
As hard drives are actually slow compared to ram, the holy grail is to run without one.
Real world coding of Windows actually makes it debatable as to whether this is advantageous, but on paper with enough ram it should be cool.
Now we have 64bit the possibilities are endless (for now).
Putting the swap file on a separated drive is seen as advantageous (especially now with dual and quad core) as the mundane swap stuff can be kept away from the actual data processing.
Having it on a separate PARTITON is of no use at all, as this uses the same (IDE/SATA) controller. Has to be a separate drive on a separate channel.
It is a lot more complicated than this explanation, registers, instruction sets.......blah.
Indeed.nickyburnell wrote: Lev: Are the dual/quad cores able to take advantage of this? Do they realise and split the work load?
Good question..
Cpu micro code/assembler instructions to handle paging/swapping have been around for decades, not sure what Intel has packed into Multi-core x86 cpu's, to help Windows be grown up like UNIX/Linux.
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