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Win8 now tweaked
"Char Jackson" escreveu na mensagem
... On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 15:05:52 -0000, "Fernandes" wrote: "Fernandes" escreveu na mensagem ... "philo" escreveu na mensagem ... On 02/18/2015 08:37 AM, Fernandes wrote: "philo" escreveu na mensagem ... did some fine tuning and got memory usage on Win8 down to 680 megs ... What have you done? It turned out that I was wrong when I said I had no apps running in the back ground. I had Lava Soft AdWare installed that had been hogging a lot of RAM. I uninstalled it and now Win8 is running better. Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic solution to change this thing. I turned off all background processes but system still needs 0.9 GB of ram. I don't know what "turned off all background processes" means, but if you were to literally do that, Windows would stop. Go to task manager where you can see at processes tab a list of background processes and windows processes. You can turn off background processes without problems but it is not safe to turn off windows processes. |
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Win8 now tweaked
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:54:42 -0000, Fernandes wrote:
Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic solution to change this thing. The System Requirements page specifies 1GB is necessary to run win8. A real-world running system is likely to use more, the memory management system will take advantage of whatever RAM is available, up to a point. If it reports using 2GB on a system that doesn't mean that 2GB is necessary to run windows. |
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Win8 now tweaked
Fernandes wrote:
"philo" escreveu na mensagem ... On 02/18/2015 08:54 AM, Fernandes wrote: "philo" escreveu na mensagem ... On 02/18/2015 08:37 AM, Fernandes wrote: "philo" escreveu na mensagem ... did some fine tuning and got memory usage on Win8 down to 680 megs ... What have you done? It turned out that I was wrong when I said I had no apps running in the back ground. I had Lava Soft AdWare installed that had been hogging a lot of RAM. I uninstalled it and now Win8 is running better. Windows 8 consumes at least 1.2 GB of RAM. Thought you found a magic solution to change this thing. One thing you might not have done is to go into the Control Panel....System....Advanced Settings....Performance and set for "Best Performance" I do that with all Windows machines I work on...even with very good hardware specs. I want the best possible performance and do not want one bit of "eye candy" . Since I am running Win8 in a Virtual Machine, it is not going to perform as well as Win8 running on real hardware. Since I expect that any new machine today will come with at least 8 gigs of RAM...it Win8 takes about a gig of RAM when idling...that should not be too bad. Also: With Windows 10 I am of course just running the Technical Preview version and I'd sure things will change in it's final release Simple machines still come with 2 GB RAM like the Celeron ones and there are tablets with only 1 GB. Machines with 8 GB are the most expensive we have on market. So, I don't understand how Paul can say Windows 8.1 consumes 350 MB in idle. One thing you can do to speed up system performance is setting virtual memory to fixed recommended amount. This is a 16GB machine. Using MSCONFIG and boot:advanced option, I set maxmem to 512MB and rebooted. This is the result. With no program running, in this photo you can see the OS uses 338MB. I can make it go lower than that, but that's enough for now. http://i62.tinypic.com/2586wb8.jpg And this was captured on a *real* computer, not a VM. You can tell the machine isn't happy at 512MB, but it did run, and it didn't crash on shutdown. (When I've done these tests before, shutdown is actually the hardest part for the machine. More problems show up there.) Paul |
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