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cybette said

Ordered extra 4GB of RAM for my work desktop. Let's see if it helps...

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cybette 26.03.2009 (en)

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Running Vista, eh? :-)

TomiS commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

Actually running XP still but downloading and extracting 25GB envs almost daily in my new job required some kind of upgrade (maching upgrade is out of budget...)

cybette commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

does the extra RAM help that much? i would have thought Disk I/O is a bigger part of that?

ymb commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

Does XP even support more than 4GB?

R200 commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

@R200 64bits does

BUGabundo commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

Oh yeah, didn't remember that one..

R200 commented on 26.03.2009 (en)

i could be wrong, but are zip files loaded to memory for unzipping? if there's not enough memory then you'd need to swap... we have many zip files around 1GB in size and even some between 1-2GB. anyway, more RAM can't hurt right? :)

cybette commented on 27.03.2009 (en)

Murphy law applied to PCs: RAM is never too much

BUGabundo commented on 27.03.2009 (en)

not sure about the loading into ram bit, i guess it depends on the software.
I do know that Winzip in a cronically dumb move fist unzips to %temp% then copies, whereas 7zip unzips "in place".

ymb commented on 27.03.2009 (en)