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So, if you haven't heard by now, Randall Kennedy has been fired from his job. Paul Thurrott has some background info on the guy: http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/pa...gets-fired.aspxThe original story that provoked this melee appeared last week. Anyone remember it? It was a claim that Windows 7 computers were constantly pegging memory usage between 90 and 95% and that this somehow impacted performance. I looked at those statistics and said to myself, "So? Mine's regularly that high and I've never felt any performance problem." In fact, it's supposed to be a feature of the OS according to Thurrott. Interesting times.

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Yes, I do remember that article about Windows 7 computers and memory usage.And today, I read an article at Computerworld, Windows metrics source lies about identity, Devil Mountain CTO was actually InfoWorld writer by Gregg Keizer:

One of the more interesting people I've talked with in the last two years is a figment of his own imagination."Craig Barth," the chief technology officer of Florida-based Devil Mountain Software, a company that makes and markets Windows performance metrics software, is, I have discovered, nobody. He doesn't exist.Barth is, in fact, a nom de plume, which is a fancy, French way of saying "alias." The real man behind the curtain is Randall C. Kennedy, a popular, sometimes outrageous blogger for and frequent contributor to InfoWorld, a publication that like Computerworld is part of IDG. Kennedy's connection to InfoWorld was severed on Friday.The two, Barth and Kennedy, are one and the same. The problem was that I didn't know that. The problem was that Kennedy didn't tell me he was Barth, that I didn't figure out Barth was he, and that together, they were Devil Mountain.
That is the tip of the iceberg, his article is 2 pages.
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FWIW I have yet to "peg" my memory usage so that the OS is unusable. It is generally always running in top form. Only time I have ever had it react like a pig is after copying a million + pictures from one hard drive to another. But what version of Windows could handle that and not need a reboot later on to get stability back?Win 7 HPE 32 bit. 4GB DDR2. Generally run at 1.93GB used. Physical Memory total 3325MB, Cached 1370, Available 1340, Free 20. So if you are going by the one stat of 20MB free then yes it is all used up. But shouldn't it be?

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