[X4U] Having Windows open drain resources?

[David Ledger]

At 18:41 -0500 5/4/09, Ed Gould wrote:
>Zap:
>
>This is a general questions for all operating systems. It really 
>depends on the OS (for VM) . There is not hard and fast answer as 
>(IIRC) it depends on how the OS "polls" (looks to see if there is 
>something to do) AND how the VM handles paging. IIRC the VM for PC's 
>is immature and not great for paging where as other OS's semi talk 
>to VM and let VM carry out the paging . Since the VM version(for 
>PC's) is not sophisticated  I would suspect that there is 
>essentially double page ins and the same for pageouts(this is only a 
>guess).
>Bottom line it depends on the OS.

The VM PCs use isn't really relevant. The way VM is done on Unix is 
fairly well known at different time frames. What OS X uses may not be 
a sophisticated as in HP-UX (say), but not far off.

David


>On Apr 4, 2009, at 1:48 PM, zapcat wrote:
>
>>  I hope this question doesn't sound silly..does it put a drain on 
>>CPU or RAM resources, or even VM to have several windows constantly 
>>open?
>>
>>  I'm trying to improve my work efficiency by changing some of my 
>>work habits, and I find it helps to have 3 or 4 or more windows 
>>always open, since I end up opening them anyway...I have a habit of 
>>always closing out all windows..which is dumb bcs I always open 
>>them back up!
>>
>>  I think this behavior might be a hold over from something I heard 
>>or read advising closing windows as soon as you're done with them.
>>
>>  thanks for any info!
>>
>>  zc
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