Laptops with Big RAM? 172
Fubari wonders: "Anybody know when laptops over 4gb might be coming out? Some of the dev-tools I want to run are just obscene RAM-pigs. On the desktop I'm using now (Win2003), it sucks up 1.6gb just to boot. By the time I log in and start doing work, it is stretching 2Gb. Move that to Vista, add a VM-Ware session or two, and I'm worried I'll be pushing 4Gb. I'm torn between buying a 4Bb-max laptop now, or some mini-desktop
that can fit in a set of luggage wheels. A friend of mine suggested something like this, but my first choice would be something designed to be portable. Any suggestions?"
Re:Dell? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Dell? (Score:3, Insightful)
The Answer is Obvious... (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Easy Answer: May (Score:2, Insightful)
Stop Suggesting alternate Platforms, OSes, Tools (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Stop Suggesting alternate Platforms, OSes, Tool (Score:1, Insightful)
Obligatory car analogy (Score:2, Insightful)
slashdot crowd: Have you considered taking the plane?
you: Stop suggesting alternate forms of transportation, some of us are afraid to fly.
1.6GB on 2003 server? Something is screwy... (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe you should figure out what's wrong with your machine that requires 1.6 GB of RAM just to idle.
Re:Dell? (Score:3, Insightful)
I mean, he can't see how much RAM he's using at the login-prompt anyway, can he? =)
He might be getting his numbers from some source that doesn't subtract the system cache, though.
It's not uncommon for people to rant about how much RAM they're using when 70% of it are just cache that are still available for applications.
Well.... (Score:2, Insightful)
You don't mention what tools you are using but:
- There's probably a lot of file caching going on so that doesn't matter as it will discard unused cache to fulfill your memory allocation requests as you run (low overhead).
- If you're running SQLServer, for example, by default it grabs a huge chunk of memory for caching. You can control how much it uses for this (set the max value) in the configuration tool. At one time, it defaulted to as much as all your memory minus 128M for the OS or something similarly large. Step 1 was to drop it down to a more reasonable level (like 256M total).
- Look for lots of other 'tools' that start on boot or on login and grab up memory... things like indexing services and the like.
Posted from a XPx64-Windows (Score:3, Insightful)