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<DIV>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).</DIV>
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<DIV>More RAM seems to be the best thing to avoid the IDE going off into lala
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>I diagnose performance using:</DIV>
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<DIV>-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).</DIV>
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<DIV>-Task Manager</DIV>
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<DIV>-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.</DIV>
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<DIV>How do others diagnose performance issues like this????</DIV>
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Jeremy,<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>cheers,<BR>Jan<BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>