Re: Will RDi finally support 64 bit OS?

That said, I am running 8 GB RAM on a fairly new PC. If I could
get 8 GB to work in XP I am sure the performance would be better.
I am running the Vista SP1 RC, which made a night & day difference
in regards to performance. I noticed that Vista 64 eats up 1.1 GB
of RAM at idle, so 2 GB should be considered a bare minumum. If
you need to run WDSC in a VM, then 64 bit OS and 4 GB should be
the minimum, so you can dedicate 1.5 or 2 GB to the WDSCi virtual
machine.

I don't think we need to overspec a system. I'm running WDSC V7 on a Dell
Optiplex 740 PC. This system has AMD Athlon Dual Core 4600+, 2.4 Ghz
processor with 2 GB RAM. This system comfortably runs WDSC, Lotus Notes, 3
or more Client Access sessions, Iseries Navigator, Firefox web browser,
all the time, with occasional use of other MS Office apps. It also has
high performance disk drives which does reduce startup times. But these
drives rattle the PC when the heads are seeking, and I don't normally hear
that during the day.

IBM has reduced the memory requirements for WDSCi V7 as compared to WDSCi
V6, and has also made some of the components that had been required in V6
optional in V7.

This system cost about $800 6 or 9 months ago (without monitor), and it is
quite capable of running all of my workload.

Steve

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express