[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues

Alister Christie alister at salespartner.co.nz
Fri Apr 17 10:19:45 NZST 2009


I'd like to plug 2 monitors into my laptop, but not supported - a 30 
inch screen would be good to - but a bit expensive at the moment, plus 
it requires dual dvi (as far as I understand).  I think I'll get a 
desktop for my next dev machine for just this reason.

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:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <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>>
>     >     [mailto: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>>
>     >     [mailto: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&
>     <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&>
>     >     articleId=9130538
>     >    
>     <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0AarticleId=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>>
>     >     [mailto: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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