Based on data from its community-based Exo.Performance.Network (XPnet), Devil Mountain Software has claimed that most Windows 7 systems are out on their memory which is affecting the system’s performance severely. This was reported by Computer World. There’s been a lot of fight about a report issued by Devil Mountain Software that the vast number of Windows 7systems suffers from Random Access Memory woes. These RAM related troubles are leading the system to performance problems.
Devil Mountain Software’s chief technology officer Craig Barth has informed that, on an average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM. As a result systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle the tasks. It slows down the performance of the system.
On the contrary, Experts denied all the reports regarding this debacle. According to them the software company has faced a firestorm of criticism about its wrong claims. Many readers have written Computerworld to tell the article was baseless. On an argument one review said that a good operating system will not have much free RAM, it will allocate the unused RAM to buffers and caching rather.