[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues
Kyley Harris
Kyley at harrissoftware.com
Fri Apr 17 14:53:59 NZST 2009
I was watching a video on 2/3rds of the left monitor. Checking mail on the
other 3rd and doing delphi on the left monitor.. Very.. productive.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>
>>> >
>>> <
>>> 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>
>>> >>
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > 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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>>> > > Kyley Harris
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