OINK!!!! 86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory

[furrbear]

From SlashDot:

"Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'"

Comments

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

lol. And here most of the time when I install desktop linux I just shut swap off. ;)

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

I've got swap created on my keyserver (Slackware) box, but even with only 1GB of ram, I hardly ever use more than a few MB.

[genxcub.livejournal.com]

Does W7 come with a 32 bit version and that could be a reason? Memory is so cheap, if I actually got a 64-bit OS, I'd make sure I had a good chunk in there, at least 8 g's if not more.

[pocketbearwa.livejournal.com]

I've never had that problem - 4gigs of RAM, 64-bit Win7 Pro,never more than 48% usage by the OS. I wonder what I'm doing that they're not - or what they're doing that I'm not?

*shrug*

[strongaxe.livejournal.com]

I think it would depend on just what the extra memory is being used FOR. If, for example, the OS uses all free memory as extra disk cache (as long as it's available), this would speed things up when memory usage is low, but wouldn't degrade it when memory usage is high. In both cases, standard measures would indicate that most of memory is being used, resulting in inaccurate comparisons with respect to earlier OS versions.

[qnetter]

Considering the source, don't worry...

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Roger.