ram

[Mark]

Is there any merit to purchasing more than 1 GB of RAM on your *client* pc
to run VS.NET, while multitasking with Outlook, Query Analyzer, and music
playing in the background from a CD running on Windows XP? Assume that the
SQL Server MSDE or similar is not installed, but IIS is running locally for
VS.NET development.

I would guess the answer is no, but I was curious if anyone could come up
with reasoning why a person would need more (at least for now) assuming the
criteria above.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Mark <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote:

Is there any merit to purchasing more than 1 GB of RAM on your *client* pc
to run VS.NET, while multitasking with Outlook, Query Analyzer, and music
playing in the background from a CD running on Windows XP? Assume that the
SQL Server MSDE or similar is not installed, but IIS is running locally for
VS.NET development.

I would guess the answer is no, but I was curious if anyone could come up
with reasoning why a person would need more (at least for now) assuming the
criteria above.

Certainly I've got 1Gb on my laptop. I probably wouldn't bother with
that much on a desktop, but it's good to have a lot of memory for file
caches when you've got a pretty slow disk.

More memory is always a good thing to some extent, really.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi Mark,

No AFAIK, I have 1 GB of ram and I have never gone over 800MB, even so I
was running 3 instances of VS.NET running a windows service, a windows
application and a PPC app. debugging the three of them and using the
emulator for the PPC app.
That's at home
here at work I have SQL2K, VS.NET with Rational XDE and IIS , I never go
over 650 MB

Cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Mark" <fi******@idonotlikejunkmail.umn.edu> wrote in message
news:uB*************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

Is there any merit to purchasing more than 1 GB of RAM on your *client* pc
to run VS.NET, while multitasking with Outlook, Query Analyzer, and music
playing in the background from a CD running on Windows XP? Assume that the SQL Server MSDE or similar is not installed, but IIS is running locally for VS.NET development.

I would guess the answer is no, but I was curious if anyone could come up
with reasoning why a person would need more (at least for now) assuming the criteria above.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

<"Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <ignacio.machin AT
dot.state.fl.us>> wrote:

No AFAIK, I have 1 GB of ram and I have never gone over 800MB, even so I
was running 3 instances of VS.NET running a windows service, a windows
application and a PPC app. debugging the three of them and using the
emulator for the PPC app.
That's at home
here at work I have SQL2K, VS.NET with Rational XDE and IIS , I never go
over 650 MB

Neither of those suggest that having more memory than that wouldn't be
helpful. Memory is also used by the filesystem for caching, and the
more memory you have, the fewer garbage collections you'll get when
running managed code, too.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

That's right, but I was monitoring the memory usage when I upgraded my
office machine and it never goes over 700 MB, so having an extra 1GB of
memory does not have a big gain in performance, I would expend the extra
$250 in a faster processor, or a better video card if you do gaming ;)

Cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation
"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk***@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:MP************************@msnews.microsoft.c om...

<"Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)" <ignacio.machin AT
dot.state.fl.us>> wrote:

No AFAIK, I have 1 GB of ram and I have never gone over 800MB, even so I was running 3 instances of VS.NET running a windows service, a windows
application and a PPC app. debugging the three of them and using the
emulator for the PPC app.
That's at home
here at work I have SQL2K, VS.NET with Rational XDE and IIS , I never go
over 650 MB

Neither of those suggest that having more memory than that wouldn't be
helpful. Memory is also used by the filesystem for caching, and the
more memory you have, the fewer garbage collections you'll get when
running managed code, too.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too