As part of tag cleanup, it is often necessary to retag many questions in a short time span. However, this bumps all of the retagged questions onto the main page, which can be disruptive as it fills the main page with old content.
I propose that if a user retags more than five questions in any on...
I have an HP p7-1003 x64 AMD II X4 650 processor 3200 MHz 4 core, 4 logical processors, currently running 8GB of RAM. this computer is really only used for doing my work, and has music on it as well... My work involves using basically only 4 SW APPs. From what I understand they are all resourc...
I think? What he needs at this moment, is a view to the paging quantity occuring. All the ways to use the memory the biggest slowdown will be if it goes to disk.
I scoured meta and have not found any discussion on this topic.
I thought about it when I very much appreciated an edit someone made http://askubuntu.com/revisions/146161/2 which greatly clarified my original title http://askubuntu.com/posts/146161/revisions
And then realized I often would have...
In the resource monitor in the DISK section, all disk activity is shown including to the paging file. But it seems impractical to view it there that way, as a needle in a haystack.
Surely someone has a way to isolate just activity written to that file, if only to temporarily test A) am i paging B) a Lot C) and when.
Because my paging is not on my system disk, although there are other things on that disk too, anything that shows that disks activity alone simply provides that clue.
@Bob The low-rep users get 2 points for herassing us with stupid edits :-) the high rep people get nothing for editing correctally :-) Anything added just adds another layer of complexity or possible abuse, so really it is fine.
For "do i need more memory" a person can try and read and comprehend the many posts that all sound like this one superuser.com/a/359365/98855 Figure out the commit and watch pagefaulting. But not only is this haveing to have a good understanding of a glob of programming done back inside there, it really does not answer the "well do I or not?" because it varies on how it was used still.
The Do i need more memory is most directally answered by , well is it slow ass disk based psudo memory , that is the problem. Most quickly answered by "is it paging a lot of stuff"
It was not until I ignored this high-tech method of Proper analisis , and started looking only at the one thing that mattered to me, that I found times when windows systems would page for no reason at all. Like when XP paged out programs things, just because the program was minimised.
With something like adobee photoshops own memory paging file location called scratch disks, it was basically the same thing. Back in 32bit the thing would start writing to disk because they ran out of thier allowed spaces , what like 2Gig or something.
It matered not that ram spaces were available, Just that Why the fluck is it so slow. and in that case, why not make up a 2nd ram space on the side via a 2nd 32bit access. sure you only get 2g, but who says you cant have 2 of em :-)
So back then even with limited available memory space , a scratch disk could be placed on a ramdisk. But just do not talk about how well that worked, because the Book says it would be bad.
(name censored) has connected his visual studio to a Microsoft LiveID, but I do not get the archivements I expected...
"Silver OCD award: Clicked 'Close All But this' 25 times!"
"Golden Backspace: You cnat splel wroth a dmna!"
"Compiler King: You have made 10 successive code changes that compiled right away!"
"Master of Obfuscation: You managed to confuse autocompletion 20 times in a row!"
is a question asking if a selection of components is well suited, i.e. everything matches and I will not have surprises (such as "damn, the CPU cooler does not fit in the case") when assembling, on topic for this SE?
regarding the monitor: IPS is good, but two things: the size is smaller than I would expect for a gaming monitor, and the resolution is at an odd 16:10 aspect ratio, which can really confuse certain games -- either they won't support that res at all, or you'll get weird-looking scaling, or you'll get black bars
usually, everything on the enthusiast side (the motherboard, the CPU, the RAM, etc) will be extremely overpriced, and much much lower value in terms of money spent than the mainstream stuff
if you're fine with that, then you would ideally go for the highest available CPU in that grade, rather than get absolutely horrible value with a less-than-tops CPU on the enthusiast platform
like, I can't even think of a reasonable use case for going enthusiast without getting the "X" series CPU which has, like, 6 cores on Ivy-E, and 8 on Haswell-E
Intel has released Ivy Bridge Xeon processors with PCIe 3.0, ECC, and VT-d support. However, there aren't yet any PCIe 3.0 + USB 3.0 C21x (Panther Point) boards available, while B75 and Z77 desktop motherboards are widely available with a huge range of features. Since the northbridge logic / me...
@JourneymanGeek the point of the enthusiast platform is for people with tons of money to throw away, to go ahead and throw it away, in Intel's direction
it can also net you some really nice performance, true, but gamers simply don't need that, since game devs are still catering to the lowest common denominator
I guess it depends on how much he plans to stick on the I/O and USB buses for additional power draw, as well as whether he plans to overclock anything, but personally, 750W makes me rather uncomfortable
I would be fine 750W on a single-GPU design, but dual, especially the 780, I would be thinking 1 kW
and it's just whatever under idle, because with all the power saving tech these days, sitting at your desktop with no background programs running can probably get you under 100 W
@JourneymanGeek once you start looking at two stage power supply, you could also start thinking about running the whole system on a little ARM SoC when you're just in web browsing mode :P that's still "a thing" on ultrabook designs apparently, but it's not really propagated to the desktop
it would be at least interesting to think about, if not extremely practical
if it were me, I'd have some kind of a HDMI chip-on-a-stick that runs Android with a decent SoC for web browsing, and only boot up the desktop when gaming
my current compromise is to plug the Surface Pro 1 into the DisplayPort to HDMI cable and move my USB hub from being plugged into my desktop, to being plugged into the Surface Pro sitting on my desk
usually, during the week, I shut down my desktop and just use my Surface Pro, because (1) it can play Dawngate just fine at 1080p, and (2) I am usually too tired to game anyway
Core i7-4790K: http://ark.intel.com/products/80807/Intel-Core-i7-4790K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_40-GHz Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 16GB kit: http://www.corsair.com/en-us/vengeance-16gb-dual-channel-ddr3-memory-kit-cmz16gx3m4a1600c9 Corsair HX850: http://www.corsair.com/en/hx-series-hx850-power-supply-850-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-modular-psu 2 x R9-280X: http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/r9#4 At least 250 GB Samsung 850 Pro SSD: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/global/html/ssd850pro/overview.html
that's what I'd get if I were pricing out a nice gaming system right now -- high-end, but not laughably overpriced like the Enthusiast platform. cc @Federico
the specifics would always depend on your budget, as always, but if budget is even a factor at all in your buying decisions, I would avoid the Enthusiast platform like the plague
@Bob although, keeping CPU under control can be a serious challenge in simulation games, even stuff like Tropico, The Sims, KSP... the problem is that you get so many objects on screen to draw that your CPU gets bottlenecked just submitting *commands* to the GPU
if it's not a simulation game, then the designers can design the plot or whatever to keep the complexity under control so you never hit those conditions
even Skyrim can hit against CPU or memory bandwidth limitations
when you basically let the user control the complexity of the game world, with no hard limits, you may need quad Xeons to get acceptable FPS... either that, or live with reduced complexity, which can really kill immersion
although to be quite honest, until game devs start making their engines 64-bit (yay KSP!), you'll hit OOVAS situations long before your CPU is hopelessly swamped
@JourneymanGeek yeah, I'd say the philosophy of intentionally buying hardware that is weaker on both power efficiency and performance per dollar is certainly different from mine :P
(not to mention, hardware whose manufacturer is in bed with far fewer game devs than the competition these days)
Matrox Millennium II, Gforce 3 (replaced with a gforce FX 5200, which sucked), Gforce 8800, Gforce 8300(of borking fame, though I did not buy that POS) gforce 450 DDR3, and gforce 660 (factory overclocked version)
I owned the GeForce 8800GTX, and the GTX 280, so I've used Nvidia "recently" -- but I've also had the Radeon HD5970, now I have two basically "7970"s (one a re-brand)
the last time I had issues with Catalyst was running Windows Server 2008 R2 (couldn't afford a license of Windows 7 Pro/Ultimate, so I went Dreamspark on my desktop) in like 2011-2012
@Bob I can understand CCC sucking on mobile -- not forgiving AMD, but saying yeah, considering the custom stuff they have to put under the hood to get a laptop mobile GPU working, that's no surprise (but it still sucks) -- no clue why you seem to have problems with it at work
CCC has been basically perfect for me since about Q4 2012, on Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1
@Bob the nvidia control panel also doesn't do anything :P the one I have here (with the latest ODE driver) lets me change color balance stuff, toggle monitors on/off, screen res, refresh rate, shows me the driver version, and that's about it
@Bob no, but it's nice to know if your GPU is running hotter than it should, or if some background program is OpenCLing you to 100% utilization or some shit (obv you would expect it to be at 100% if you have a 3d game going, ...)
and I usually use it to underclock, anyway :P (certain games push the GPUs so hard that the older one needs to be underclocked)
@Bob OK, well, all I can say is we've had two completely polar opposite experiences with CCC
and it hasn't crashed on me in over two years despite doing all kinds of shit with it (re-arranging the relative positioning of monitors, trying out Eyefinity, etc)
@Bob PHP 6.0's most notable addition was the addition of Ruby Alternate Syntax Mode (RASM) where the PHP interpreter can interpret Ruby code instead, making for a much easier user experience.
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ They wanted to add Unicode support to core in 2010. Dropped the idea, incorporated new features into 5.x. Now they want a new version, and there's a pretty stupid argument over whether it should be named PHP 6.0 or PHP 7.0.
@Bob it makes sense when you think about it... at least Sun was consistent in that matter
the solaris kernel version is still 2.x since forever
Linux made a completely meaningless 3.x declaration even though the ABI is still true through 2.6 to 3.x... what they should have done is made 2.6 the 3.0, and we'd still be on the 3.x series
although technically if you want to go by graphics drivers breaking their user<->kernel interface, Linux should be up to major version 180 or so by now
@Bob the whole argument for not using PHP 6 was that a couple irresponsible authors wrote PHP 6 books about the unicode project before it was even released, without any official word that PHP 6 had hit GA
@Bob public discussion does not indicate a definite release, and it's irresponsible to publish books -- which are supposed to stand the test of time for at least a year or two -- about something that's not confirmed to be shipping yet
also there's a bunch of older audio gear that still supports it
@ÃŁŁǫǛȉЖΦΤїҪ: eh, Hamas could be bringing in food and materials instead of rockets. And this is much more complex. The current crisis started after egypt closed their borders IIRC>
@Boris_yo we just need the Xindi to come to Earth with their laser drills, cut out the entire region including Israel, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, etc. and use a tractor beam to pull it out from the earth and send it into outer space :D (after evacuating all the innocents, of course) -- bam, no more territory to fight over, just a big chasm :D
I have an HP p7-1003 x64 AMD II X4 650 processor 3200 MHz 4 core, 4 logical processors, currently running 8GB of RAM. this computer is really only used for doing my work, and has music on it as well... My work involves using basically only 4 SW APPs. From what I understand they are all resourc...
I scoured meta and have not found any discussion on this topic.
I thought about it when I very much appreciated an edit someone made http://askubuntu.com/revisions/146161/2 which greatly clarified my original title http://askubuntu.com/posts/146161/revisions
And then realized I often would have...
My laptop screen and video card are fried but hard drive intact.
Intel has released Ivy Bridge Xeon processors with PCIe 3.0, ECC, and VT-d support. However, there aren't yet any PCIe 3.0 + USB 3.0 C21x (Panther Point) boards available, while B75 and Z77 desktop motherboards are widely available with a huge range of features. Since the northbridge logic / me...
