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[Frumple]

How do you see how much memory a service is using in Vista?

I have one svchost using up to 700 megs of memory, and want to see why it's using that much. It doesn't seem to be a virus; malwarebytes in safe mode turned up nothing.

Get Process Explorer. Click on the particular instance of svchost. Press ctrl-d. In the panel that pops up in the bottom of the window, right click on a column title, click "select columns", then choose "WS total bytes" from the list. Hit okay, then sort by WS total btyes. There you go. You'll have to figure out which .dlls are associated with which services on your own, if the description doesn't explicitly state it, but that'll put you a lot closer to figuring things out.

Could also check out this. Haven't used it, m'self, but it looks like a more specialized memory analysis tool.

[gigaraptor487]

What is love?


Genuine question:

How would I go about creating an operating system after a few years of experience?

[scrdest]

What is love?

Baby don't hurt me.

[Aklyon]

Genuine question:

How would I go about creating an operating system after a few years of experience?

Phone/tablet os, desktop os, specialized hardware os, machinery systems, any one of those in particular?

[Draxis]

How would I go about creating an operating system after a few years of experience?

Start with bare-metal functions to turn on and off some light on whatever it is you are programming for, that way you will become familiar with working on the system as well as having a vital output method for debugging things until you get screen output up.

Plan everything out beforehand, at least to some extent.

Comment everything, even if it seems silly - not just normal code-explanations, but any thoughts you have on anything related, because chances are you won't actually remember later them no matter how obvious they seem at the time.

Acquire good hardware documentation, preferrably from multiple sources, and at least skim it so you will know where to find whatever information you need.

[Levi]

How would I go about creating an operating system after a few years of experience?

You could learn the traditional way, with Nachoes!  It was what was used to traumatize comp-sci students at my university when I was in school.     Everybody graduated with their own horror stories of the operating systems class. 

It was basically a base operating system, but missing pieces, such as multi-tasking, a file system, virtual memory, etc.

[gigaraptor487]

Probably desktop, I don't know of many phones that have x86.

[hops]

What's the largest possible real number that can be mathematically notated? (Infinity isn't a number)

[LordSlowpoke]

something involving tree()

[Graknorke]

What's the largest possible real number that can be mathematically notated? (Infinity isn't a number)

I don't think there is one. That's kind of the point innit?

[Xantalos]

What's the largest possible real number that can be mathematically notated? (Infinity isn't a number)

Eleventy quintijillibillinillion and two.

[scrdest]

What's the largest possible real number that can be mathematically notated? (Infinity isn't a number)

10^F+1, where F stands for one fuckhuegillion, defined as the upper limit of the computing device's memory.

[hops]

Like, numbers like Graham's number. Graham's number isn't the largest calculable number, is it?

[Helgoland]

Graham's number + 1.

[Graknorke]

Like, numbers like Graham's number. Graham's number isn't the largest calculable number, is it?

So you mean a number that someone's slapped their name on?