[dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?

I just did some more testing and when initially loaded, it "only" uses about 100MB - so there 
would appear to be a serious memory leak in it (I haven't rebooted the laptop for several days 
at least).

I think I'll leave it running for now and see what it does over time.


-- 
Stuart

On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:55, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote:

> Unbelievable!!! I remember running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on just a mere 8 megabytes (yes, megabytes!) and these days software developers are incapable of writing touchpad extensions software that fits under 1.3 gigabytes of RAM.
> 
> http://www.mememaker.net/static/images/templates/14288.jpg
> 
> - Hans
> 
> 
> 
> On 2013-01-25, at 4:47 PM, "Stuart McLachlan" <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg> wrote:
> 
> > Out of interest, I just ran ProcExp on my laptop.  I found that the Synaptecs Touchpad 
> > Extensions was using 1.3GB of RAM :-(
> > 
> > I stopped the process, recovered 1.3GB of free RAM and the touchpad still works fine (I thnk 
> > the only thing it did was make the touchpad "mulit-touch" and makes the serrrated line on the 
> > right hand side of the touchpad emulate the scroll wheel.  Neither of   which I  use in 
> > practice.)
> > 
> > So I used Sysinternals Autoruns to disable loading it at startup.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Stuart
> > 
> > On 25 Jan 2013 at 16:38, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> > 
> >> How nice that the DOS commands I used 30 years ago are still under that
> >> sophisticated GUI. Now that's software with LEGS! :) 
> >> 
> >> But not too informative - no RAM size so I cant tie it to what I'm seeing in
> >> the task manager.
> >> 
> >> I'll try What's Running...well that just tells me that all the svchost.exe
> >> belong to MS Windows Operating System.
> >> 
> >> Well, I don't have the big svchost problem at the moment. And it's Miller
> >> Time. :)
> >> 
> >> R
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten
> >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:31 PM
> >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?
> >> 
> >> Rocky,
> >> 
> >> Try typing tasklist /svc in a dos prompt, that may help.
> >> 
> >> In Windows 8 you can click on the drop down in front of the svchost, and I
> >> think the freeware 'what's running' will show you as well
> >> 
> >> Bill
> >> 
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rocky Smolin
> >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:55 PM
> >> To: 'Off Topic' ; List
> >> Subject: [dba-Tech] 1 GB Ram - but what is it?
> >> 
> >> Looking at my task manager I have a svchost.exe process that's taking 1.0
> >> -1.3 GB RAM Any way to find out what it is?
> >> 
> >> There's a bunch of the svchost.exe processes but smaller - 13 of them
> >> ranging from 2 to 40 MB in size.  Who are they?
> >> 
> >> I just terminated the big one.  Everything seems OK so far.
> >> 
> >> Rocky
> >> 
> >> 
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