[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
Jeremy Coulter
jscoulter at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 14:50:48 NZST 2009
sorry ..... did your "you've got mail" wave file wake you up? hehehe
:-D
Jeremy
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Conor Boyd <Conor.Boyd at trimble.co.nz>wrote:
> Quite the opposite.
>
> We're all being so productive with our dual monitors that we've been too
> busy to contribute any more. :-P
>
> C.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Coulter
> *Sent:* Friday, 17 April 2009 2:25 p.m.
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
>
> 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
>> k%0A=view<http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas%0Ak%0A=view>
>> >
>> <
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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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>> > > Harris Software
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