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DaleNixon
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 Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:47 am |
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You wouldn't believe what all I have running in only 146MiB of RAM right now.
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DaleNixon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:25 am |
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| Broco wrote: |
| And people don't appreciate the kind of optimizations that Windows makes and that none of its competitors do. For example, XP and Vista boot hella fast: |
You've got to be fucking kidding me! I'll bring a stopwatch to work tomorrow and time my slow-ass XP and Vista images' boot times vs. Linux and OS X.
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| that's because of clever logging of what files are accessed at bootup and then defragging the disk to put all those files near each other. |
And this is done automatically? You know, most modern journalized filesystems defragment on the fly... NTFS excluded.
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| Vista now exploits flash memory on USB keys as faster virtual memory. |
I would keep far away from this. NAND Flash memory is not meant to be accessed like this. That sounds like a good way to kill your USB pen drive as they are not made to withstand intense amounts of reading/writing.
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DaleNixon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:01 am |
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| Broco wrote: |
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| And this is done automatically? You know, most modern journalized filesystems defragment on the fly... NTFS excluded. |
Yes, you don't need to do anything special to turn it on. As for the other filesystems, sure but don't they just clump everything together randomly, not position things based on usage profiling? |
I'm not exactly sure how it works. What I do know is that a Linux image I built three years ago still feels as fast today as it did then. Whereas my Windows images seem to suffer from "bit rot" and get slower the longer they run and the more applications I install. That might be a function of the registry though.
This is the first I've heard of "superfetching". It's interesting... I wonder if it will turn out to be more than a gimmick. Certainly may be a way to conserve battery power on a laptop.
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DaleNixon
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DaleNixon
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| Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 11:24 pm |
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Lols I'm getting a free media pc because the guy who owns it can't get Vista to run for shit with its 1GB of memory.
P4 3.0 GHz, 250GB HD, 1GB RAM, dual tuner cards, Radeon 9800 Pro...
MythTV here I come!
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