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Not that I am bored or anything but...Memory Efficiency?


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Memory Pressure in side panel....logical.   However, memory efficiency?  Yes I read the help file, but the question mark hanging over my chrstmas head is:  What is the Reference point?  100% is a standard mthematical indicator of Maximum....you see where I am bewildered?  1035% is meaningless without a baseline reference point. I could interpret this as meaning that my computer is a super computer Or, that it will become in-efficient once it reaches 100%.

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Sorry; no idea what you're talking about.

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4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Sorry; no idea what you're talking about.

My guess is its AP's "Info" panel, which shows values for "memory pressure" & "memory efficiency."

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Lateral thinking cap on: If something is working at 1000% maybe it's working 10x more efficiently than if it was working at 100% 🤔

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34 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Sorry; no idea what you're talking about.

Happy to have confused you Walt....happy new year.

27 minutes ago, R C-R said:

My guess is its AP's "Info" panel, which shows values for "memory pressure" & "memory efficiency."

You got it in a nutshell......

16 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

Lateral thinking cap on: If something is working at 1000% maybe it's working 10x more efficiently than if it was working at 100% 🤔

Yes Yes I considered that as well....But, did you consider asking why so much?  I mean 100% efficiency, goes to 50% efficiency is after all so much more entertaining, right?

12 minutes ago, BofG said:

I love the help description:

"how well Affinity Photo is dealing with redundancy in its internal representation of open documents"

There's no details on what the internal representation is, or what in there can be considered redundant. Maybe the app is creating the redundant data in the first place :)

If I was coding a score for how well my own app was doing I'm sure I'd make it start at a million percent and go up from there :)

Remains a mystery to all I suppose.

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Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener.  Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door.

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Maybe the 100% is per core, so if you have 8 cores you don't use 100% of the combined cores you use 100% of each core? Make more sense?

Also if you have multiple threads it can take it past the amount of cores you actually have, thus showing more than say 800% with an 8 core CPU.

 

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Just guessing here but I think it has to do with real RAM and the Swap file on your hard drive. In other words up to 100% means it is in Ram 110% means some of it is on the hard drive. Again, just guessing. Try with a tiny file and a gigantic file. Plus consider when the last time you saved the document to disk, does that make a difference:

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I have it on good authority from the New Year Unicorn, it measures Affinity faerie dust levels. 🧚‍♀️

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1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

I have it on good authority from the New Year Unicorn, it measures Affinity faerie dust levels. 🧚‍♀️

Sorry to dissappoint...but only if you set your language preference in Affinity to Irish....

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Was there some sort of New Year's Eve bug going around yesterday, which prevented the forum search function from working?

 

 

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