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8/25/10 at 7:05am

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Physical Memory: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussi...1/3092070.aspx

Virtual Memory/Paging File: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussi...7/3155406.aspx

A very good series of blog posts explaining memory in Windows.

Definitely read it you want to understand why things work.
Edited by DuckieHo - 9/14/10 at 7:06am

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8/25/10 at 7:12am

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TKS. bookmarked it for a rainy day.

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8/25/10 at 7:29am

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Quote:

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TKS. bookmarked it for a rainy day.

Read it NOW!

Everyone should get to understand these articles. It would really help to create clearity and remove confusion about the OS/app uses memory.

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9/11/10 at 8:12pm

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Bump... please read!

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9/11/10 at 9:17pm

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READING! READING!

also....

sidenote: can you ask Duke to update or atleast take a look here..
Edited by kora04 - 9/11/10 at 9:20pm

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Quote:

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what's the big deal, my task manager shows big numb.... oh my god!! holy ****!

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The RAM is insane. But, is that 64 CPU cores?!??!

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Originally Posted by SvB4EvA

The RAM is insane. But, is that 64 CPU cores?!??!

Mother effer.....

That's probably four 16-core opterons. DAMN 200GB RAM... I wonder how fast that thing would do an -smp unit.

Oh my effin god. Did I just misread it or is that 2 terabytes of RAM?

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tryagainplss

Mother effer.....

That's probably four 16-core opterons. DAMN 200GB RAM... I wonder how fast that thing would do an -smp unit.

Oh my effin god. Did I just misread it or is that 2 terabytes of RAM?

Yes, 2TB of RAM... I don't even have 2TB of storage... rofl

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