[DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues

Fri Apr 17 16:45:49 NZST 2009

well.. my cheap ass little asus eee certainly boots windows XP with its 4gb
SSD much faster than my fathers Quad Core...
Also, our old dos DBF database software reindexes faster on that little SSD
than many of our desktop computers with big grunty cpus and decent HDD's ..
so.. i guess it does depend on what you are doing .. and not all SSD's are
build equal.. some are not much more than flashcards wrapped up which can
write quickly, but.. random read/write is ridiculously slow..

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Kurt <kwilkin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2 minor 2nd-hand SSD points:
>
> - Joel says : boot time went from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, but *compile*
> time didn't change (probably cpu bound) :
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/03/27.html
>
> - Linus says : Get Intel SSD's, and ignore throughput figures (though
> 250MB/s reads...) as random reads and writes matter more :
>
> http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-new-intel-ssds.html
>
> Cheers, Kurt.
>
>
>
> Stefan Mueller 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
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stefan
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 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]
> 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
> >
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 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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