[DUG] D2010 and XE on the same machine

[John Bird]

I have VMWare workstation with XP D2007 in the VM, and D2007 in the host Windows 7 PC (yes 2 different licences too, although I generally can only run one at once anyway).

More RAM seems to be the best thing to avoid the IDE going off into lala land.

Help – I avoid the D2007 standard help – the MS Document explorer is one of the greatest performance pigs around.   It tends to totally lock the PC for 20-30 secs when loading.   I downloaded older copies of the D7 Help and added them to the tools menu, and also downloaded the current help as a .CHM file from the Codegear website (was mentioned some months ago as a download).   That version is way faster, and pretty much the same thing.

I diagnose performance using:

-Sysinternals Process Explorer – looking at Physical Memory and Commit history.   I would like more information on the significance of each.   4GB Ram, of which 32bit Windows can use about 3.2GB I understand, so I have noticed when commit history gets over 3.3 GB it starts to swap (ie Hard disk gets a lot busier).

-Task Manager

-Windows 7 Resource Monitor (different from the Vista one) which does a few things Process Explorer cannot-  shows which programs are generating which network traffic, and also which are generating HD reads and writes.   Rewriting of the virtual hard disk seems to be the issue for me.

How do others diagnose performance issues like this????

John


Hi Jeremy,

I have D2010 on Windows 7 running as a VM on Linux with 1.5GB RAM and experience painful slowness from time to time. I haven't figured it out fully yet but I think things like code-completion and whether or not the Delphi Help is running do make a difference. It doesn't happen always though and usually I just check emails then get back to it and it's all back to normal. A bit frustrating I must admit though.

cheers,
Jan

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