Discussion Questions 1. You are running a memory-intensive multimedia applicatio
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1. You are running a memory-intensive multimedia application on your computer, which has 1 GB RAM installed. You observe that the computer momentarily stops responding when you switch between two multimedia applications. Your friend suggests upgrading the RAM to 2 GB to correct the performance problems.
Do you agree with your friend? Specify reasons.
Is there any other way to solve the performance problem? Justify your answer.
2. Research relevant software for a career of your choice. Share the software and the system requirements for it.
Why is the software necessary for the career that you chose?
The subject is actually Foundations of Information Technology.
Please answer only question 2 because I already have the answer to question 1.
(My choice of career is Physical Therapy)
Discussion Questions
Explanation / Answer
First of all it may or may not be Ram issues. First check the RAM used by that multimedia applications.
Speed of computers depends on various factors.
Process clock
RAM size
Hard disk speed
Graphic Card Size
Case 1: When total RAM memory consumed by all you application is less than 80% of available space of Your RAM.
Then you have no issue with your RAM, It may because of other hardware Like Processor clocking.
Processor clock: If clock frequency is low, processing will be slow, and you will feel lag.
Hard disk: It may be because of slow speed of your hard disk as switching different application take place by content switching. Slow reading and writing speed may leads to delay in operations.
Case 2: When your System consume more than 80% of your RAM
In this case your Friend is right, you have to Upgrade RAM size.
If RAM size is low then during Application switching, your system need to free the RAM, before loading in new program in RAM. So your system may lags.
To solve this
It’s of no use if you have large size RAM, but slow frequency processors and vice versa.
Linux usually operates on less resources as compare to windows