(03-02-2012, 05:57 AM)kernel64 Wrote:... which will immediately make them *extremely* slow, so you'll want to avoid that at all costs. Also, I don't see 3d apps using *that* much RAM (blender doesn't)... and for video processing you just want to buy 16G or so ;pQuote:Which computer on this world still uses swap? It's a legacy technology which is really, really rarely used. With 4GB of RAM, you will almost never need to use swap.Many 3d apps, image processing apps, video apps, etc... are swap intensive because sometimes they work with huge files simultaneosly.
Quote:I don't see any case where it would make sense to swap unless the memory is full, except if you really only have like 200MB of memory.Quote:For some reason, Windows sometimes seems to use swap although there's enough system memory available, don't ask me why.Virtual memory is enabled by default, but you can always disable it if you have enough ram (8 gb or more depending on the software you use)
I said that the problem would be solvable because even the article mentions it would be "expensive" to solve it. If it read "impossible", I'd still not be very impressed, but I'll dismiss the "expensive" without a blink -- who knows what will be expensive in ten years.