Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Jul 29 01:11:34 CDT 2013
Yes. Google "Ready Boost" On 28 Jul 2013 at 22:01, Rocky Smolin wrote: > I'm just thinking how much longer it would take to run through 500MB of data > being transferred from an SD card or a USB drive, than doing the same thing > in RAM. Or even swapping that 500MB of data into ram before iterating > through it. > > Is the SD card going to be any better than 2GB of HD space masquerading as > RAM? > > R > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 9:39 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > You could turn off indexing? > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 8:57:06 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > Isn't the data transfer rate really slow though? So slow that the thrashing > would still be greater than the advantage from the additional (virtual) RAM? > > R > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 7:38 PM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > Good point about the external memory. According to one review that I saw, > the Dell 3100 has a built in Card Reader, so you could stick a SD Card in it > for Ready Boost. > > > On 28 Jul 2013 at 20:33, John R Bartow wrote: > > > I think you should be OK with 2GB. Won't be a speed demon but will work. > The > > big chains were selling cheap machines with 2gb RAM when 7 was first > > released. Also remember that Windows 7 can use an external USB memory > stick > > to boost RAM. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Rocky > > Smolin > > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 3:34 PM > > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > > > The comps I have here that I could give him are all 2GB RAM limited - > > by hardware. > > > > R > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim > > Lawrence > > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:03 AM > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > > > Note, that it does also depend on what your hardware's (and Windows) > > capability is. > > > > I think the absolute maximum is 3GB, even though most articles state > > 4GB > on > > a 32 bit system but not on all...some pieces of hardware only allow > > the addressing of 2GB for a 32 bit OS...so you would have to check > > with the motherboard supplier. You have to go to a 64 bit hardware to > > be able to > use > > more RAM. > > > > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-performance/3 > > 2-bit-operating-system-4gb-ram-limit/6c1b942e-d1cd-4ef5-bb93-388be8b5a > > 049 > > > > Aside: On a Linux box you will have install a Physical Address > > Extension > > (PAE) patch for the kernel and I have heard that as much as 16 GB of > > RAM > can > > be addressed on a 32 bit system after that. > > > > Jim > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> > > To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" > > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 10:36:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > > > Maxes out at 2GB. I've got 3-4 machines here like that. I wanted to > > give one to a cousin but he needs to move up to W7. > > > > R > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart > McLachlan > > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:16 PM > > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues; 'Off Topic' > > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] W7 in 2GB RAM > > > > >From the horses mouth: > > > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/system-requiremen > > ts > > > > If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes: > > 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor > > 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) > > 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) > > DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver > > > > Second question; > > > > It should be fine to run Wordpad, Calc etc it you don't have any AV or > other > > applications running in the background. > > > > Try to run something like an Office 2010 application and you will be > > thrashing the hard drive constantly. > > > > Are you sure that you can't replace the current memory with 2 x 2GB > chips? > > > > -- > > Stuart > > > > On 27 Jul 2013 at 16:37, Rocky Smolin wrote: > > > > > Can you run W7 in 2GB RAM? I have a Dell Dimension 3100 - has a P$ > > > at > > > 3+GHz but which maxes out at 2GB. Running WXP. Will it run > > > unacceptable slowly with only 2GB RAM? > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Rocky > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > dba-Tech mailing list > > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dba-Tech mailing list > > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >