That sounds like it relates to VRAM, not RAM. But I'm not familiar with WDDM or D3D much nor do I see into the function, so it might be related.

Or perhaps, were I to be VERY optimistic, they are finally inching towards making large pages pageable and thus available to user applications by default, and this is a byproduct of that incomplete work.

I don't think it's a mystery. I think there's no longer anyone in Windows division of Microsoft, who'd sit down over all the scenarios and decide on the proper configuration.

Or such task died in an endless bureaucratic prioritization queue somewhere.

The name of the function, MiRebuildLargePages, does sound peculiar. Could it be doing some memory defragmentation to make large pages available even after the OS has been running for some time?

No longer having to tiptoe around issues, not being afraid of using stronger words to get your frustration off your chest, not having to carefully formulate replies as not to be accidentally offensive, not overthinking naming things. It builds up quite a lot.

In my experience it's a loud few percent that feels like majority.

Sure, these people usually do good work too, but removing the "morality enforcers" significantly improves productivity of the whole team.

Ramy is awesome. I've been watching him for good half of a decade now. I hope to one day build anything 1/10th as great as he does.

I still refuse!

Especially in the dark mode, that is complete Wild West.

Fuck, I feel seen.

2 825 threads in System process. Crazy. Freshly booted system.

I have 816 threads in my System Idle Process on Server Insider build 26525. So probably no, or at least not in this build.

I'm around 1/100th of Bruce's level, but even I see things in Windows that I could fix or improve. Given the opportunity, I'd put my own company on hold and do it for them FOR FREE.

On one condition: Given no conflicts or regressions, the fixes HAVE TO go in. No politics is allowed to prevent that.

That's exactly what would happen. Your fixes would mostly remain to die in some limbo branch, unmerged.

The new age of software is upon us.

After playing Control with it's destruction physics all the other games are let down for me.

Like the new Resident Evil games. AAA, beautiful complex environment geometry, yet you can't even melee 99% of things, let alone break them. Not even bullet hole decals appear.

I wish this was still the case.

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