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<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muellers@orcl-toolbox.com">muellers@orcl-toolbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives should be able to<br>
improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to no seek-times and<br>
manage to read thousands of small files at high speed.<br>
<br>
I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon (like OCZ Z-Drive,<br>
or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards have the advantage that<br>
they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that SATA-II has.<br>
<br>
The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising:<br>
<a href="http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task
=view" target="_blank">http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task<br>
=view</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Stefan<br>
</font><div class="im"><br>
<br>
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Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56<br>
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues<br>
<br>
I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives which last up to<br>
100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few years. 10+ times<br>
faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of these drives can boot<br>
Windows XP in 4 seconds.<br>
<br>
Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still out of my price<br>
range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard drive to a 240GB<br>
SanDisk drive later this year.<br>
<a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040" target="_blank">http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040</a><br>
<br>
Ross.<br>
<br>
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Behalf Of Richard Bullin<br>
Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m.<br>
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Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues<br>
<br>
I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a memory hog if you<br>
look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of ram, I foresee<br>
a surge in lazy programmers :)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9130538" target="_blank">http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&<br>
articleId=9130538</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
<br>
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On Behalf Of Alister Christie<br>
Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m.<br>
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues<br>
<br>
Currently I'm on 254MB.<br>
<br>
Close Delphi - 0MB<br>
Open Delphi - 11MB<br>
Open Project - 71MB<br>
Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB)<br>
Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB<br>
<br>
And the numbers just keep going up from there the more you do.<br>
<br>
I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory hog. Although I<br>
have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a total of 155MB.<br>
<br>
I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is running the most<br>
memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently?<br>
(Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB)<br>
<br>
Alister Christie<br>
Computers for People<br>
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<br>
<br>
<br>
Jeremy Coulter wrote:<br>
> Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) using a HEAP of<br>
<br>
> memory?<br>
> at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage !<br>
><br>
> Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new machine has been<br>
> ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS.<br>
> In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on 131mb too.<br>
><br>
> just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is a solution to<br>
<br>
> it or not.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Jeremy<br>
><br>
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