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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Well no, my biggest bottleneck was actually processor capacity and memory!! Swap files will never be fast enough, especially for real time apps, unless they are on a solid state device, and even that is no guarantee. A multi-core processor like mine is capable of threading across 8 CPUs and 64 bits means I can use all of my 6G memory for those processors (cf: 3G max in Win 32 I think?). While not quite enough to prevent swap file use, 6G will get close if I don't start up other memory hungry apps (eg CCDStack, Photoshop etc) while imaging and assuming the apps I'm running aren't too old so that they rely on a swap file being present for normal operation.
So the objective is really to minimise the use of a swap file with a suitably powerful processor and an adequate amount of RAM. Some say you can eliminate the swap file altogether with 12G or more of memory in Win7 64 bit machine but that's probably unwise.
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You're running all your work from your laptop, so you're going to need something pretty powerful. But you don't have to run image processing and such concurrently with everything else. That would chew up resources like it's going out of fashion!!!. If you're trying to run everything in memory, then it's no wonder you need the grunt, otherwise you'd have to rely on your swap file to handle the work. That's where the bottleneck would occur. You'd need at least 10000rpm sata drives to handle it, and big ones at that. Or solid state storage drives. I can see the $$$ ticking over even as we speak!!!
Eliminating the swap file would be something I wouldn't recommend, even if it was possible to do so with 12G of memory. There will always be processes which will consume all or most of your available memory.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
 ... Bloatware: A term used to describe software that is amply endowed with functionality to suit the vast majority of users. Cf: Waifware: Software that has enough functionality to satisfy only the needs of an elite few, ignoring the needs of most users ... but it runs really fast and lean!  |
Your far better off to have an app that will do the work required and be fast and efficient than to have some memory hogging app with 1001 functions, all seeing and dancing, most of which you'll never use.