I just looked up “Windows 7 system requirements”, it says 2 GB RAM for the 64-bit version. I had no idea, I’m running 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise with only 512MB RAM. It’s running in a VM under Linux and it runs just fine. It’s not sluggish at all, Windows Experience Index is 1.0 but I only use W7 for testing software so it doesn’t matter.

Am I missing something here?

I think Windows uses the page file (swap) very heavily

Thank you, it created a 1GB page file but it is barely using it. I think the low score is due to lack of 3d support, I’m using handmade Linux video driver instead of AMD’s.

Am I missing something here?

Yes , being satisfied of what you have.

You have a running Windows 7, actually running good enough for your scopes . (for other scopes it may be different and you will find a big number of peeps telling you that with that configuration it would be "slow as molasses")

WHAT is the problem?

The good MS guys, for once in their life asking for beefier hardware than the real bare minimum?

It has been proven how in the past the "hardware requirements" MS set up front were sometimes excessively minimal or anyway not corrresponding to "real life usage", anyone running XP (32 bit) on a Pentium 233-megahertz with 64 Mb RAM )or even on a 300 Mhz with 128 won't ever call it "snappy"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865/en-us

BUT that is not the actual Minimum requirement:

http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini.htm.en

jaclaz

Am I missing something here?

Yes , being satisfied of what you have.

You have a running Windows 7, actually running good enough for your scopes . (for other scopes it may be different and you will find a big number of peeps telling you that with that configuration it would be "slow as molasses")

WHAT is the problem?

The good MS guys, for once in their life asking for beefier hardware than the real bare minimum?

It has been proven how in the past the "hardware requirements" MS set up front were sometimes excessively minimal or anyway not corrresponding to "real life usage", anyone running XP (32 bit) on a Pentium 233-megahertz with 64 Mb RAM )or even on a 300 Mhz with 128 won't ever call it "snappy"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314865/en-us

BUT that is not the actual Minimum requirement:

http://winhistory.de/more/386/xpmini.htm.en

jaclaz

Yes I am satisfied, I’m using only ¼ of the minimum memory requirement, very impressive! MS must have taken out the bloat. You can also get rid of the pimp UI so that it looks just like 2k/xp, however most of my 32-bit apps won’t run.

I mean the page file usage inside the Windows guest, not from your Linux-Host.

Run Taskmager/ProcessExplroer inside the VM and show the memory usage summary.