RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Christopher Sekiya wrote:

> On Wed, 27 May 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > what are you doing on this machine that requires so much ram?
> 
> As an experiment, I turned off all virtual memory on a 64MB PII/266
> running 4.0 workstation today.  Rebooted and just let it sit there ... it
> was running the usual services, nothing special. 
> 
> Exhausted all physical memory within five minutes.  NT is a _pig_.  The
> bloody kernel pushes it into swap all by itself ...

yikes.  My main development machine only has 64MB of ram, and it only gets
into the swap when I have about 25 or so windows open, 3 of which are
netscape :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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