memory hog

But it is a big program, a real memory hog.

That moved some memory hogs from conventional to high memory, which solved the problem.

Memory hogs put a serious crimp into the operations of many a home computer, especially those ancient machines sold two or three years ago.

Newer software programs (especially games) are memory hogs.

Is that considered a memory hog?

Quicktime includes a data compression component, but even compressed color video is a memory hog.

These programs are memory hogs.

At least it means that I will only need one lump of memory hogging bloatware on my device instead of two.

The drawback to doing everything with processes is that Apache prefork can be a bit of a memory hog, especially under load.

Recently, I installed DOS 5.0 on a computer that also runs Windows 3.0, Sidekick 2.0 and other memory hogs.

And memory wise, I must say Firefox was a crazy memory hog until FF7 or so for me, now it rarely goes above 500K.

With a minimal Macintosh, or with System 7.0 and only two megabytes of memory, it may be necessarily to strip the computer of other memory hogs temporarily.

Touchwiz 4.0 currently used in gingerbread is just a memory hog, and is flat out not made for devices with less than 1GB of RAM.

Some of the interest in old versions is fostered by fear of "bloatware" - software so loaded with features that it is unwieldy to use and a memory hog.

Serious memory hogs may want to look at using 4GB DIMMs to pack in even more, but we figure 16GB is very reasonable.

More often than not encountered in qualified forms, e.g., 'memory hog', 'core hog', 'hog the processor', 'hog the disk'.

Both Framework II and Publish-It are such memory hogs that, before you can use them, the desk accessories must be unloaded, and they must be reloaded when you're through.

Windows 7 "memory hog" story takes turn towards the strange: Last week, Ars debunked claims that Windows 7 was a memory hog.

At the moment, Chrome is a bigger memory hog even than IE8, which is now in Beta 2, and IE8 has been criticized as being a memory hog.

Conceding that Windows NT had suffered because it had been perceived as slow and a memory hog, he said, "We didn't achieve all our size and performance goals, but that's why we're focused on Daytona."

I'm not sure if it's in FF7, but the nightly has a cool feature: If you type about:memory into the address bar, the memory use of *each tab* is listed, so you can see if one tab is being a memory hog.

Right now, OS/2 is an obese, snorting memory hog that demands a minimum of 1.5 megabytes just to boot it up and 2 megabytes before it can run any of your DOS-based software - and that's Standard Edition 1.0, the early diet version.