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9/12/2008 6:09 AM
 
Johan Johansson


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Hi all

What is the minimum you gyus are using to develop DotNetNuke on. I've got a new vista machine with 1022MB RAM. will that do or? How much RAM are you people using? Are you using Vista at all? I have heard that it is very slow.....

 

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I have 2 main machines, one a 3 year old single core laptop with 1GB of ram running XP, and the other a 2 year old desktop running vista with 2GB of ram, and was able to develop on both of them fine. However, I recently doubled the ram on the laptop to 2GB (it's maximum) for about €20, and have (unsurprisingly) noticed a large difference when compiling solutions. In general the more ram you have the better, particularly under vista which is ram hungry and IMO requires 2GB to work well. If youre running a 32-bit system then theres no point getting more than 4Gb of ram (most likely your machine will only use slightly over 3 GB anyway), but the cost is so cheap it's worth doing it. Sites such as www.crucial.com/uk have activex controls which download and identify your laptop capacities, free slows and cost of available ram -lenovo laptops usually cost approx €20 for 1GB, 30€ for 2GB.

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9/12/2008 11:02 AM
 
Yello

Joined: 4/8/2007
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Hello Johan

Since you are using VISTA much of resources are used by the OS itself.Having a good processor doesn't necessarily means faster system.

Try to upgrade RAM to 2Gb for XP ,dont know about vista.If possible use a RAID (10000+ rpm) which will tremendously improve the read and write speed.

Check this blog for..it will help you a lot.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/01/tip-trick-hard-drive-speed-and-visual-studio-performance.aspx
 

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9/19/2008 10:57 AM
 
Johan Johansson


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Hello guys

I am now running my Vista machine with 3 GB RAM AND in XP mode so that I'll recommend everybody to do ... switch on the XP mode so that you free a lot of power going to the new design features in Vista to development instead ..... cheers

 

/Johan

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