Windows 10: 4 GB RAM - How will it run on Windows 10?

In summary, "How will Window 10 run with 4 GB of memory"

It will run just dandy, now back to the game *Biggrin

 

you mean back to the beer ,because the game didn't start yet *Party

 

Huh, it`s been on here for a half hour, you must have some delay.

 

The whole confusion is - as usual - because of a confusing use of words. For me, sticks go into a USB port and Dimms are RAM. But that happens often - Drive is another prominent example. For some it is a physical disk and others use it for partitions. Even M$ is not clean on that.

 

I wait til it's on sale at Office Depot. I got a buy one get one free, so bought a 10 ream box with a 10 ream box free. Saved a bundle!

 

They're in the third quarter; cheaters 14, Seattle 7.

 

I've been into computers since around 1981, and RAM has always been referred to sticks. The thingies that go into a USB port are jump drives, thumb drives, flash drives, or just plain USB drives, but I've never seen them referred to as sticks.

Follow this link to see what I'm talking about.

stick of ram not working - Bing

Or here to figure out if you have flash, jump, thumb or USB drives.

Flash drive, USB drive, thumb drive or jump drive? | Breaking Copy

 

They're in the third quarter; cheaters 14, Seattle 7. Whoops! Half time sees a tie!

 

I've been into computers since around 1981, and RAM has always been referred to sticks. The thingies that go into a USB port are jump drives, thumb drives, flash drives, or just plain USB drives, but I've never seen them referred to as sticks.

Follow this link to see what I'm talking about.

stick of ram not working - Bing

Or here to figure out if you have flash, jump, thumb or USB drives.

Flash drive, USB drive, thumb drive or jump drive? | Breaking Copy Interesting. I have been in computers (as a profession) since 1961. Now what does that mean. It means that I may be wrong, LOL.

 

it was I ,I think who said stick of ram,SORRY ,and I have referred to ram as a stick long before the usb thumbdrives ,but I also have refer to them as a [big] usb stick .
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I've been into computers since around 1981, and RAM has always been referred to sticks. The thingies that go into a USB port are jump drives, thumb drives, flash drives, or just plain USB drives, but I've never seen them referred to as sticks.

Follow this link to see what I'm talking about.

stick of ram not working - Bing

Or here to figure out if you have flash, jump, thumb or USB drives.

Flash drive, USB drive, thumb drive or jump drive? | Breaking Copy Interesting. I have been in computers (as a profession) since 1961. Now what does that mean. It means that I may be wrong, LOL. Oops! Sorry 'bout dat! Didn't mean to embarrass ya. *Redface

 

Ducking and running . . . that be one humongous stick 'o' RAM!

 

I've been into computers since around 1981, and RAM has always been referred to sticks. The thingies that go into a USB port are jump drives, thumb drives, flash drives, or just plain USB drives, but I've never seen them referred to as sticks.

Follow this link to see what I'm talking about.

stick of ram not working - Bing

Or here to figure out if you have flash, jump, thumb or USB drives.

Flash drive, USB drive, thumb drive or jump drive? | Breaking Copy Interesting. I have been in computers (as a profession) since 1961. Now what does that mean. It means that I may be wrong, LOL. Oops! Sorry 'bout dat! Didn't mean to embarrass ya. *Redface No problem. We all have our habits but that does not mean that they are universal or correct. A wise man once said to me: - if you are correct in 51% of the cases, then you are ahead of the game.

 

This is a classic misunderstanding of what a pagefile is for. Most people seem to think it's used as an "overflow". When you need more memory than you have, then it "spills over" into your pagefile. While this does happen to some degree, a pagefile is used for much more than that.

In more modern OS's, the OS is smart enough to not put things in the pagefile it can get from other sources. For instance, if you load an app into memory, that app is already on disk. There is no need to write it to a pagefile a second time, so Windows simply discards memory and reloads it from the file already on disk when it pages out or in an application. This happens whether you have a pagefile or not, and is part of the entire virtual memory subsystem.

Modern OS's are also much smarter about how they use the pagefile. For instance, many kinds of applications have code which is run only once, and as such, if that app is in memory for a long time... there is no need to keep these "least used" pages in memory, since once they are executed, they just sit there using up memory that can be used for other things.

What the pagefile is used for is memory which can't just be discarded and reloaded. For instance, current application state, or data from a network, or just calculations made at runtime. Windows will write out data which it thinks is not used to free up memory for more important uses, such as disk and network caches, or to make more free memory available for on demand usage. So turning off the pagefile can actually reduce performance, because Windows will not make room for extra caches.

 

Hi there.

Windows kernel manages RAM much better these days -- even when you start an application the OS doesn't always load the whole thing into RAM. In fact to make the OS even more efficient it uses an algorithm (and it's exceedingly complex) on some sort of history so it can if details exist simply load up the parts of the application that the historical data remembers from previous uses.

That's why some people might notice that the first few times after installing a new OS it might seem to perform slightly slower than it does after 6 or 7 sessions where some useful historical data has been obtained.

So while say your computer is performing an application write to disk the CPU is obtaining what it thinks will be the next parts of an application it will need and if it's not in RAM already the OS will write details to the paging file.

Paging algorithms usually worked on LRU mechanisms (Least recently used) so those can be flushed when new data needs to be written to the page file.

Eliminating the page file can cause severe problems - even with plenty of RAM because the OS will still divvy up RAM into "page segments" and when it needs to "page" your application out it will resort to "swapping" - this is writing the ENTIRE application area out to a work area and takes a lot longer than paging. If you haven't got enough work area then the system will HALT.

Cheers
jimbo