[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues

Alister Christie alister at salespartner.co.nz
Fri Apr 17 09:50:19 NZST 2009


except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on because of 
the small screen.  I now plug an external 24 inch screen into my laptop 
for a similar reason (fewer headaches).  The laptop does have a 17 inch 
screen but at 1920x1200 things are a bit small.  I remember when I was 
first programming in Delphi on a 14 (maybe it was 15) inch monitor - my 
how things have changed.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 



Kyley Harris wrote:
> I have one of those $500 Asus EEE computers that runs windows XP on 
> 256MB of ram, and a 4GB SSD.. takes 25seconds to boot up.. way faster 
> than any other laptop.. still has 120mb free ram and 1gb of disk 
> space.. I plug a USB hdd into it and its great. battery life is awesome
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Mueller 
> <muellers at orcl-toolbox.com <mailto:muellers at orcl-toolbox.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be
>     able to
>     improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no
>     seek-times and
>     manage to read thousands of small files at high speed.
>
>     I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ
>     Z-Drive,
>     or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the
>     advantage that
>     they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has.
>
>     The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising:
>     http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task
>     =view
>     <http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task%0A=view>
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Stefan
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>
>     [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>] On
>     Behalf Of Ross Levis
>     Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56
>     To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
>     Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
>
>     I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which
>     last up to
>     100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years.  10+
>     times
>     faster than a hard drive.  I've heard a PC with one of these
>     drives can boot
>     Windows XP in 4 seconds.
>
>     Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year.  It's still out of my
>     price
>     range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB
>     SanDisk drive later this year.
>     http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040
>
>     Ross.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>
>     [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>] On
>     Behalf Of Richard Bullin
>     Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m.
>     To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>     Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues
>
>     I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you
>     look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I
>     foresee
>     a surge in lazy programmers :)
>
>     http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
>     articleId=9130538
>     <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0AarticleId=9130538>
>
>
>     Richard
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>
>     [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
>     <mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz>]
>     On Behalf Of Alister Christie
>     Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m.
>     To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
>     Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues
>
>     Currently I'm on 254MB.
>
>     Close Delphi - 0MB
>     Open Delphi - 11MB
>     Open Project - 71MB
>     Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB)
>     Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB
>
>     And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do.
>
>     I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog.  Although I
>     have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB.
>
>     I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the
>     most
>     memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently?
>     (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB)
>
>     Alister Christie
>     Computers for People
>     Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
>     http://www.salespartner.co.nz
>     PO Box 13085
>     Johnsonville
>     Wellington
>
>
>
>     Jeremy Coulter wrote:
>     > Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a
>     HEAP of
>
>     > memory?
>     > at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage !
>     >
>     > Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been
>     > ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS.
>     > In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too.
>     >
>     > just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a
>     solution to
>
>     > it or not.
>     >
>     >
>     > Jeremy
>     >
>     >
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