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Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
O dear, patchday again and Windows 7 is turning its hopeless rounds! :( This is after a reboot ~3 hours ago: This is excellent crapware, which only M$ dares to spit on its customers... Aloha, Uli |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1856 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
So, to get back closer to the thread title ... Just did the first Win7 Pro migration on a cruncher to Win 10 last night (Host ID 7811252, for anyone who's curious). Didn't go anywhere near as smoothly as I'd have liked, but eventually did succeed. If anyone's interested, I can give a fuller description of the process and issues I encountered. So for the moment, I have two exactly identical boxes, one on 7 and one on 10. Will leave it that way for a bit, just to compare. So far, so good... |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
O dear, patchday again and Windows 7 is turning its hopeless rounds! :( Yeah, that's about right. That one update for the new Update Client for October 2015 fixes that "memory leak" (I think that's what they decided to call it) where it uses a ton of memory and a whole CPU core for upwards of a few hours. The problem is, as I've stated in this thread once before... I don't trust that updated client to not go behind my back and install stuff I didn't authorize it to do, as some of the other versions of the client have been discovered to do. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
The problem is, as I've stated in this thread once before... I don't trust that updated client to not go behind my back and install stuff I didn't authorize it to do, as some of the other versions of the client have been discovered to do. At a whopping 2.5GBytes... Is that by any chance the compressed size to install the guts of Windows10?... Rather odd to 'hide' that in a service process... Are not 'background services' supposed to be small and fast and unobtrusive, so as to be in the background and be unobtrusive and provide an efficient service?... Or is this some new 'abuse' similar to how some executables are 'hidden' in the Windows registry and other places where executables simply should not be found!...? ... IT is what we allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
jason_gee Send message Joined: 24 Nov 06 Posts: 7489 Credit: 91,093,184 RAC: 0 |
At a whopping 2.5GBytes... Is that by any chance the compressed size to install the guts of Windows10?... Frankly I myself 'don't give a rats', since their apparent dependence on numbers places them as victims as opposed to observers. "Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions. |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
At a whopping 2.5GBytes... Is that by any chance the compressed size to install the guts of Windows10?... Actually no, since this system cannot update to Windows 10. I saw a Win7 system updating in a VirtualBox with 3GB of associated RAM using the whole RAM in a saw tooth like manner, always bumping back from the 3GB limit back to ~2GB and rising again to the max. Basically the system was idle with only fetching updates running. One CPU was maxed out and also the memory. This process lasted for about 5 hours until finally finding some updates... ...of course the whole process repeated after the obligatory reboot, because i had hidden some unsolicited updates, mainly WinX-related. :/ Aloha, Uli |
Cosmic_Ocean Send message Joined: 23 Dec 00 Posts: 3027 Credit: 13,516,867 RAC: 13 |
The problem is, as I've stated in this thread once before... I don't trust that updated client to not go behind my back and install stuff I didn't authorize it to do, as some of the other versions of the client have been discovered to do. As much of a neat coincidence as it is.. if you've avoided everything in the list of updates to avoid, that's just a memory leak plain and simple. It does fix itself eventually. I recently got my WSUS install working again and got the new DB populated and all 33gb of updates downloaded to it, and when I told my main machine to check WSUS for updates, it took about 3 hours and peaked at 2.7 GB. After it was done checking, that svchost process dropped back down to ~25 MB. My laptop just won't do updates anymore, unless I allow at least that October 2015 Update Client, because the laptop runs out of memory. As far as I can tell, the memory for that svchost process cannot be put into the pagefile. On a clean reboot with nothing else open, and telling it to check for updates, all 4gb of physical memory get used, and then it errors-out after about 30 minutes. So.. I turned updates off on it like.. six months ago. Linux laptop: record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
As much of a neat coincidence as it is.. if you've avoided everything in the list of updates to avoid, that's just a memory leak plain and simple. Memory Leak = This will be released on XX/XX/XX! = No time to run dynamic tests to make sure there aren't leaks. It is just upper management doing programming/coding. Nothing sinister, just SOP all over the world. |
AMDave Send message Joined: 9 Mar 01 Posts: 234 Credit: 11,671,730 RAC: 0 |
Microsoft gives away lots of free eBooks. Excerpt: “The Windows category for instance lists 14 ebooks covering Windows 10 ...†It would seem that MS products are in a slump across the board.  They may be hoping to turn that around with these freebies. |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
Attention Windows 8.1 Users! The July 2016 Rollup: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/3172614 includes the June Rollup https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/3161606 and the May Rollup https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/3156418 and this way very nice disguising the Update-Client-Update https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/kb/3163023 buried in the June Rollup! Aloha, Uli |
Jimbocous Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1856 Credit: 268,616,081 RAC: 1,349 |
So, to get back closer to the thread title ... Just did the first Win7 Pro migration on a cruncher to Win 10 last night (Host ID 7811252, for anyone who's curious). Didn't go anywhere near as smoothly as I'd have liked, but eventually did succeed. If anyone's interested, I can give a fuller description of the process and issues I encountered. We interrupt for the following message: 4 crunchers updated to Win 10 and running very nicely ... average upgrade times under an hour including making a backup Win 7 image just in case. Upgrade installs were performed from thumb drive created with instructions from web site, in order to eliminate multiple downloads. We now return you to your previously scheduled paranoid maundering. [ sorry, couldn't resist:) ] |
The_Matrix Send message Joined: 17 Nov 03 Posts: 414 Credit: 5,827,850 RAC: 0 |
Thinking of a compressed size of windows ... In Windows 7 i was able to compress the "winsxs" folder in the Windows directory. Saving some space. I had to start from install dvd and enter the recovery-console and compress the dirctory with following. c:\windows\system32\compact /C /S /I /F /Q C:\windows\winsxs\*.* I think it was also drive D: to use instead of C: Anyone tried it before ? I did... Do not know , if is possible on Windows 10. Greets |
Ulrich Metzner Send message Joined: 3 Jul 02 Posts: 1256 Credit: 13,565,513 RAC: 13 |
[ sorry, couldn't resist:) ] No damage taken, sir, but i'm really not paranoid. X) It is not the Win 10 system itself, that bothers me, it's the unsolicited sniffing on MY PC and MY privacy, which is simply unacceptable! All those "updates" to the old 7 and 8.1 systems only update their sniffing- and update-core to the same monopoly policy, the Win 10 core already has and i really don't like that on my system - that's all! If anyone decides to cut off the internet for private people, it would only be pushing a single update and at least the Windoze community would be cut off in a snap - that's an absolute no go for me! Aloha, Uli |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34378 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
[ sorry, couldn't resist:) ] I totally agree. In addition.... Since i can not agree with the Licence agreement at all i will refuse to use such an "app". With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36772 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
[ sorry, couldn't resist:) ] The same here, but I'm getting sick of going away lately as when I get back I've either got to rollback or fix a lot of Win10 installs. But I also soon know when a Win10 PC is connected to my network as it sucks the crap out of my old DSL connection. So it's still Win7 for me until 2020 ATM. Cheers. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
[ sorry, couldn't resist:) ] Still 7 on my daily driver as well. Have had updater totally disabled since the 10 crap hit the fan. Not going to move until it stops running entirely. And all the crunchers are still on XP...best damned OS ever. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
AMDave Send message Joined: 9 Mar 01 Posts: 234 Credit: 11,671,730 RAC: 0 |
... I'm getting sick of going away lately as when I get back I've either got to rollback or fix a lot of Win10 installs. @Wiggo To alleviate the problem you are experiencing, I would direct you to some of my previous posts in this thread.  For expediency, I recommend initially viewing the second message.
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36772 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
... I'm getting sick of going away lately as when I get back I've either got to rollback or fix a lot of Win10 installs. I know very well how to keep my PC's Win10 free, but I also work on many other PC's around this area and I must also respect preferences of their users as well (even if it hurts my network when I have work on them here). ;-) Cheers. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51478 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Still waiting for the Euro class action lawsuit. It is coming, sooner or later. Die, 10, die. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." |
Stubbles Send message Joined: 29 Nov 99 Posts: 358 Credit: 5,909,255 RAC: 0 |
I obviously don't get something. Why not use Linux? (...or am I asking a Q that was answered many times before) |
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