Sam_Goody

Yes, well, as I stated, it is currently set to that setting. It still wakes up though. Thank you for the help though.

Hi Everyone: I have a very strange problem with one of my PCs. I own a desktop, a laptop and a tablet. Neither my laptop nor my desktop have built-in Bluetooth functionality, so I bought dongles for each of them (same brand, same model.) The weird thing is that ANY Bluetooth device apart from my lamp will turn my desktop PC on when I activate it. I just have to turn on the mouse or the headphones, and my pc will turn on with it, even though it isn't even paired to that particular device. How can I solve this problem? Do I need to change some settings in the motherboard? I have already checked the device manager, and in that manager, it states that my Bluetooth dongle does not have permission to turn my device on. Well, thanks for the help guys. Hope you have a nice day! Wagner-Schmitzer

Yes, I know how it is. It is quite annoying. I once heard that Android has the worst memory management of all the mobile operating systems. I forgot the explanation of why, but I believe it was an imprecision within the garbage collection. As such, it is recommended that the Android be turned off very frequently. Of course, they now have a "smart manager" for memory, but I find that that only helps a little. Anyway, Windows and iOS are actually cheaper phones to make for this reason as they require less RAM to function as efficiently, and if you pay attention, windows phones are actually cheaper. Apple of course still charges a lot, but apple can afford to do that as their company is a bit like a religion in that people just believe that it is 10x better than the alternatives even if the screen always breaks and the battery always runs out of juice too quickly and firmware updates destroy systems that are 2+ years old.

So your answer is, as I understand it a little different from the one M.Yurizaki gave. You believe that my OS is using disk space as RAM even though I still have 1 GB of Ram space left, which is why the slowdown occurs. Of course, it may be the case that both of you made correct statements as a system could begin using some disk space as ram in order to make sure that no apps that would run incredibly slowly on disk space get the juice that they need, should they need it, or because all promised space is also used already. However, I find your suggestion that the disabling of paging would help to be a bit hard to believe. If the computer decides that it needs to make up for a shortage of ram by making disk space available, then it should be allowed to do so as I will otherwise just run out of RAM, at which point serious swapping must occur.

That is very interesting. So Linux will actually never have the problem of "out of memory" because the apps are always given as much memory as they need (well, assuming that the amount of memory they are said to maximally need is always correct.)

That is very strange. My tablet with 4gb gets slow once there is less than 1gb left. My Android gets slow once there is less than 200mb left (out of the 1gb it has) and my PC used to get slow while I played Arkham Knight back when it had only 8gb (6.8 of it was used while I played the game.) now it has 12gb, and I have not yet experienced any slowdown on it, but the closest I came to ever using all 12gb was 10gb, so I cannot yet say much about it.

I am not quite sure what your first statement means. The second point is quite interesting, although I am not sure how well this can be done on Android. Slowness is measured just by my own perception. For instance, as I press keys, the screen displays the characters much faster than it did for my other comment because I had a few more browser tabs open, and thus was using over 80% of the RAM.

So, I know we have probably all heard the popular rhetoric (that linus often offers) about how ram is useless if you are not using it, and that slowdown will only occur if 100% of ram is being used. However, I have noticed on multiple machines now that also run separate OS that slowdown occurs when about 80% of Ram is being used according to task manager, intel extreme, or the settings in my android phone. If Linus (and all the others in the forums, who may simply be echoing him) then this might be a problem for this theory. Of course, it is possible that all these memory observing utilities are in actuality wrong about how much memory is truly in use; perhaps there is some "garbage" floating around in the ram that the manager does not detect somehow. Anyway, I am interested in this, so if someone was able to really answer it for me or confirm (reliably) that my hypothesis about the task manager not being very accurate is true, then it would really make me feel a lot better about this issue.

Strange. My 960 never really got that hot; it would just stay put at around 34C and not spin its fans, at least not loud enough for me to hear.

I did that now, it still doesn't make nay difference.

Well, now I set it up just as you suggested, and still it is at 28.

It appears that the graphics card is actually programmed to treat '28' as the 0 point.

I am trying to do that again now. The trouble is that the fans, no matter what I do, do not truly stop. '28' is the minimum at which they run, even when turning the slider down all the way to 0% fan speed.

Hey, Guys! So, I recently bought myself a GTX 1060 from ASUS, the 3gb OC model. It's quite nice and outperforms my old GTX 960 SSC from EVGA on very many tasks. However, there is one thing that drives me crazy about the new card: it's too loud! The EVGA 960 had a very nice cooling system that had the card cool itself passively until it was at a temperature higher than 40 degrees C or something like that. This new one constantly has its fans on, and I tried (with MSI afterburner and the included software) to program this card to do the same. However, it seems that the minimum fan speed that this card is allowed to run at is '28.' I'm guessing that's rotations per second. Is there a way that I can program this card to cool in the same way the EVGA card did? I was planning on selling my GTX 960, however, now I may decide to keep it and simply to get rid of my 1060 again. I know it sounds silly, but silence is worth a big deal to me. I would rather the card shut up while I am browsing the web or working on my computer.

Nevermind, it cut off just after I finished typing that.