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Re: Is Windows 7 going to be worth it?

Discussion in 'Windows Vista' started by Leythos, Oct 5, 2009.

  1. Leythos

    Leythos Guest

    In article <#fm3Y#4QKHA.4020@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, tae_song@hotmail.com
    says...<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
    > Also if you copy large amounts of files that total more than the amount of
    > free memory, it will start swapping out to the pagefile like crazy. Not
    > sure what they were thinking, swapping out memory to pagefile like that
    > while there is heavy disk I/O. I can't think of a more inefficient use of
    > I/O traffic.
    > <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

    You might want to check your system - I just copied a zip file that is
    22GB across my network and it didn't page/swap anything, and it didn't
    appear to cause any load on the computer - my laptop is an old P4/3.2g
    Hyper-Threaded system with 2GB RAM.

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