Microsoft Denies Windows 7 "Showstopper Bug" 241
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from the show-must-go-on dept.
from the show-must-go-on dept.
Barence writes "Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding in the comments of a blog posting that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential 'showstopper bug'. Stories had been sweeping the Internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled 'Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM,' Sinofsky wrote: 'While we appreciate the drama of "critical bug" and then the pickup of "showstopper" that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level.' He signs off with the words: 'deep breath.'"
7 Bashing (Score:2, Funny)
This is the official Windows 7 bashing thread.
Please bash here...
Re:7 Bashing (Score:5, Funny)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/windowspartition
my pleasure.
Re:RAM optimization (Score:3, Funny)
How could he? There are no comments from him that could be called "stories". ^^
Payback is a... (Score:5, Funny)
It sucks when people spread FUD, doesn't it?
Re:What about this one? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RAM optimization (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about this one? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:RAM optimization (Score:4, Funny)
"isn't not unresponsive"
Congratulations! You have plumbed a new depth in illiteracy. That's a triple negative. Did you really mean responsive or unresponsive?
Re:Proper facts please (Score:4, Funny)
Nah, he wouldn't be fired.
He would just choke on his own vomit.
Re:What about this one? (Score:5, Funny)
Anyways you could always copy the files and boot sector from the small partition to the Windows 7 one and raze the small one, then you just need to edit the BCD registry using EasyBCD or bootedit.exe to point to the correct partition on boot. But yeah those are both WINDOWS tools... but bootedit.exe should be available from Windows 7 Setup on the DVD if you mess up and can't boot into Windows (press SHIFT+F10), and fixboot.exe can install the boot sector onto any partition.
And then they say Linux is difficult?
Re:What about this one? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, at least it no longer overwrites GRUB when installing (or at least Win7 RC didn't do that) - while XP always did.
That's a bug and will be fixed in Win 7's first service pack.
Re:RAM optimization (Score:3, Funny)
If the whole RAM isn't used, you're just wasting it.
That's hardly the case. Unused RAM is used as a disk cache, so that frequently read disk blocks reside in RAM instead of on disk. This makes reading them extremely fast. If applications allocate memory willy-nilly just because it's there, there won't be any memory left for the disk cache, and your system might become very slow. And if even more memory is allocated, the system will start paging stuff in and out of memory, slowing stuff down even more.
Applications should use the amount of memory they need, preferably leaving caching to the operating system. Applications generally cannot know when other processes need the RAM better, and AFAIK cannot be told to release memory by other applications in any standardized way. Not to mention that they are not told when the disk cache becomes too small, or when paging starts to occur, since the operating system reasonably assumes that memory allocated is required by the application, not just held for the fun of it.