Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Autumnal]

 

[prabe]

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[Mad_Jack]

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This resonates hard on a deeply personal level.
I feel seen...

(There was one point many years ago where if anything locked up, I'd simply hit the power switch and start all over rather than wait for it.)

 

[Ryujin]

This resonates hard on a deeply personal level.
I feel seen...

(There was one point many years ago where if anything locked up, I'd simply hit the power switch and start all over rather than wait for it.)

Microsoft added predictive algorithms that preload memory with your most frequently used applications.

Windows now uses far more memory and frequently runs out, resulting in freezing, stuttering, and crashes.

Coincidence?

It's about 9.6GB of extra memory that's being used, on my 32GB system

 

[Velderan]

Microsoft added predictive algorithms that preload memory with your most frequently used applications.

Windows now uses far more memory and frequently runs out, resulting in freezing, stuttering, and crashes.

Coincidence?

It's about 9.6GB of extra memory that's being used, on my 32GB system

It’s also a bloated mess these days. In the XP and even 7 days it wasn’t THAT hard to trim down on all the extra crud you didn’t need or want but they made it harder and harder with each new version.

My wife bought a cheap used Windows 10 Dell mini-pc to use with an embroidery machine she has that unfortunately support doesn’t exist in Linux, so I’ve been helping her try to trim it down to the bare minimum she needs to stretch the 8GB RAM it has further and.. it isn’t going well.

If you think some people here get irrationally angry about pineapple pizza, that’s me when I have to do stuff in Windows.

 

[Ryujin]

It’s also a bloated mess these days. In the XP and even 7 days it wasn’t THAT hard to trim down on all the extra crud you didn’t need or want but they made it harder and harder with each new version.

My wife bought a cheap used Windows 10 Dell mini-pc to use with an embroidery machine she has that unfortunately support doesn’t exist in Linux, so I’ve been helping her try to trim it down to the bare minimum she needs to stretch the 8GB RAM it has further and.. it isn’t going well.

If you think some people here get irrationally angry about pineapple pizza, that’s me when I have to do stuff in Windows.

Supposedly you can disable sysmain service, to reclaim that predictive memory, but I haven't tried yet. I'm constantly pushing the limit with the 16GB in my work laptop, so i might try it on that.

 

[RealAlHazred]

It's about 9.6GB of extra memory that's being used, on my 32GB system

You might want to run a scan. I mean, it used to be I could tell people, "Check if something like Notepad.exe tries to reach the Internet by looking on your firewall," but thanks to AI being jammed into every byte of software nowadays, that's no longer true. One of the few that still remain a truism is unexpected memory requirements.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Supposedly you can disable sysmain service, to reclaim that predictive memory, but I haven't tried yet. I'm constantly pushing the limit with the 16GB in my work laptop, so i might try it on that.

Unfortunately, my company has bought in -- hook, line, and sinker -- to the AIbro rhetoric, so all of that stuff requires admin creds to disable...

 

[Artamo]

Microsoft added predictive algorithms that preload memory with your most frequently used applications.

Windows now uses far more memory and frequently runs out, resulting in freezing, stuttering, and crashes.

Coincidence?

It's about 9.6GB of extra memory that's being used, on my 32GB system

Ugh, and no way to turn that algorithm off?

 

[Ryujin]

Unfortunately, my company has bought in -- hook, line, and sinker -- to the AIbro rhetoric, so all of that stuff requires admin creds to disable...

I'm one of those admins, so not an issue for me at least.

Ugh, and no way to turn that algorithm off?

Only by disabling that sysmain service that I mentioned.

You might want to run a scan. I mean, it used to be I could tell people, "Check if something like Notepad.exe tries to reach the Internet by looking on your firewall," but thanks to AI being jammed into every byte of software nowadays, that's no longer true. One of the few that still remain a truism is unexpected memory requirements.

It's the "Cached" in the above pic I'm talking about, not application memory usage.