[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
Jeremy Coulter
jscoulter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 14:25:27 NZST 2009
its gone very quite all of a sudden....has everyone with dual monitors had
to go have a lie-down to rest their necks ? :-D
Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Brennan
<dugdavid at dbsolutions.co.nz>wrote:
> The 2 * 30 inch screens sounded too much to me too although obviously if it
> works for someone then go for it!
>
> With screens I find it is a bell curve, more is most definitely best, but
> only up to a point, then the extra space actually becomes distracting. With
> my 24" screen at work (screen #2, screen #1 is my laptop screen) I
> initially
> tried it vertical on the basis that I am writing/scrolling vertical lists
> of
> code but it was just huge... my eyes couldn't comfortably track up and down
> that large an angle. Left to right is less of an issue but even then get
> too
> many/too wide screens wrapped around and it just gets too hard to use the
> extreme left and rights.
>
> I haven't tried it but imagine 3 screens being the maximum I could use, one
> large one (eg 24" widescreen, probably no more) in centre, and two smaller
> ones (eg 19" 5x4 ratio) either side.
>
> My 2c.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of Alister Christie
> Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 11:24 a.m.
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
>
> I think with 2 30 inch screens you'd get neck strain. I've heard of
> people having a 30 inch screen and two smaller screens rotated either
> side (so that their width matches the height of the big screen) - which
> means that you don't have a gap directly in front of you.
>
> I have a 26 inch screen at home and this was as large as I could justify
> to myself for the price. It has a 21 inch CRT beside it, but I haven't
> felt the need to use it for awhile (not doing much coding on that
> computer lately)
>
> Alister Christie
> Computers for People
> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
> http://www.salespartner.co.nz
> PO Box 13085
> Johnsonville
> Wellington
>
>
>
> Leigh Wanstead wrote:
> > If money is not an issue, I think two 30 inch lcd monitors is the way
> > to go ;-)
> >
> > I only got one at home to look at my photos. It is amazing. I used a
> > spyder to adjusted the color. I am programming c at home using gcc
> > which is great to look at everything on that 30inch lcd monitor.
> >
> > Have a nice day
> >
> > Regards
> > Leigh
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz
> > [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]*On Behalf Of *Kyley Harris
> > *Sent:* Friday, 17 April 2009 9:55 a.m.
> > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
> >
> > 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&tas
> k>
> > > =view
> > >
> >
> <
> http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas
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> >
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> >>
> > >
> > >
> > > 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&%0A
> articleId=9130538<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A%0AarticleId=9130538>
> >
> <
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A
> articleId=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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