[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues

Fri Apr 17 09:54:42 NZST 2009

id never work on that little thing.. dvd player.. I have a Quad Core with 2
22" montiors running 1600x1050

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Alister Christie <
alister at salespartner.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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