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Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by Bjartr »

dboreham wrote: post #38
oldmanhorton wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Microsoft employee, I can say that that feedback is taken pretty seriously in most teams, especially if the description is good or if the problem recorder/screenshot tool is used. It's not all based on up votes.

Hmm...excited to hear that I can stop devoting time to figuring out why my wife's laptop constantly runs its fan due to service processes that constantly burn CPU!

This drives me nuts. I wouldn't even mind all of this stuff going on in the background (since it ostensibly improves stability in the long run) but for God's sake Microsoft, keep it in the background! More and more over the years cats background tasks related to updates and security are hogging my cpu or saturating my disk or internet I/O while I'm in the middle of using my computer. I'm away from my computer most of the day, but no, go ahead and run all that stuff during the three hours I want to use it, certainly don't respect the preferences I set saying that exactly that time isn't okay.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by egeozcan »

oldmanhorton wrote: post #15
ThoAppelsin wrote: post #13

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Rather unconventional, but Windows 10 on desktop and mobile do have a Feedback Hub [1] where Windows 10 users are able to provide all sorts of feedback, either as a suggestion or a problem . All the feedbacks are public and users can freely vote them up to draw more attention on them. The more vote they have, the more likely they receive a response from the developers and also get the priority in the queue of issues…

As a Microsoft employee, I can say that that feedback is taken pretty seriously in most teams, especially if the description is good or if the problem recorder/screenshot tool is used. It's not all based on up votes.

This doesn't look like a bug tracker, this looks more like a forum overrun by an angry mob.

https://i.imgur.com/mUkcQh5.png

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by egeozcan »

michaelmrose wrote: post #50
mgkimsal wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other end of that spectrum, it seems MS have had large teams of QA people doing proactive outreach for security problems. My family members have been contacted 6 times in the past 2 years, each time to let them know that MS had detected a security problem and they needed to help us install a patch immediately.

How would you distinguish between MS personnel and scammers calling your house to have you install malware?

That was sarcasm, if I'm not mistaken. Nobody from Microsoft would call you for patching security problems.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

#54

Post by egeozcan »

ColinWielga wrote: post #7
binarycrusader wrote: post #6

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The Feedback Hub app in Windows 10 is how someone can publicly submit and comment on public issues and suggestions relating to Windows (and various other Microsoft-related/provided components).

This issue is on feedback hub for anyone who wants to upvote it: https://aka.ms/Yxum93

It told me that my account doesn't have access to this feedback.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by ken »

Afforess wrote: post #2

For all the improvements to Windows that have come from Microsoft thanks Nadella & co., it is still rather shocking to realize Windows has no public bug tracker, and no real way to report these issues besides screaming loudly and hoping someone in Redmond hears you. It's even worse customer service than Google, which is quite an achievement.

Why is this shocking? I can't think of any proprietary software, offhand, that has a public bug tracker.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by alexkavon »

opencl wrote: post #24
alexkavon wrote: post #10

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Just to highlight supporting bugs from a non-Windows platform... https://s31.postimg.cc/e37910orf/IMG_2425.png

Not only do you have to be on Windows 10 (Anniversary Update or newer), you have to be signed into a Microsoft account in the Feedback Hub to even view anything.

Even worse...

https://s31.postimg.cc/7jmudkjob/feedback.png

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by nasredin »

Afforess wrote: post #2

For all the improvements to Windows that have come from Microsoft thanks Nadella & co., it is still rather shocking to realize Windows has no public bug tracker, and no real way to report these issues besides screaming loudly and hoping someone in Redmond hears you. It's even worse customer service than Google, which is quite an achievement.

Wait, Google has customer service?

The googleproductforum.com (whatever it's called) which is usually the #1 result in Google is absolutely worthless.

I am not joking. It is infuriatingly worthless.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by nasredin »

setquk wrote: post #43
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #41

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Heh, yeah, I'm not buying it. How long has the "Windows 10 Start Menu stopped working" bug been around now? And the most consistent fix is still to just do an in-place reinstall?

Yep. This shoots me in the face at least once a week. Also two other problems: 1. The start menu latency is now so bad you have to forcibly wait 2-3 seconds before typing your search after hitting the start button. This is on a stacked E5 Xeon workstation class machine. 2. Search is crap. I can type "visual" and visual studio doesn't come up!?!?

"Everything" from VoidTools is a good alternative. Very fast too.

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by cududa »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #27
leeter wrote: post #26

In reading the article it's clear this is not a bug, it's API abuse. The documentation for VirtualAlloc is very clear that Large Pages should be a one time allocation thing are not intended for general malloc replacement.

Api abuse should not lead to system crashes or global memory corruption.

Excuse me what? That's how pretty much all non-managed APIs work

Re: Windows 10 works incorrectly with Large memory pages

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Post by [deleted] »

leeter wrote: post #25
metalliqaz wrote: post #20

Insightful response in the linked thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/e...

I'm not surprised at Igor's response, it's in keeping with his refusal to use modern compilers, security features, sign his code, or support ALSR properly.

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