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December 1

iGPU bandwidth on dual-channel RAM?

This may seem like a silly question, but how significant would it be to use a dual-channel RAM configuration on an integrated GPU like a Radeon Vega 3? I've heard that at least on paper, this doubles the throughput and fill rate. I'd be better off with a dedicated GPU, I know, but I still like to know how this would affect things. Blake Gripling (talk) 03:01, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can read here. Ruslik_Zero 19:10, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I see that. I know the laptop I purchased is more or less ill-suited for gaming, but since it has a reasonably capable Ryzen 3 2200U, I thought it wouldn't hurt to go for that setup. Blake Gripling (talk) 03:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Robots exclusion standard and date ranges

In these days of mass archiving of older versions of Web pages, it surprises me that robots.txt doesn't allow specifying date ranges (so we could effectually say "don't archive the previous owner's stuff from this domain, back when I didn't own it", or "don't archive my site before 2010 because I'm embarrassed about my old stuff"). Has this ever even been discussed as a possibility? Equinox ◑ 13:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Probably but I doubt in a significant way. AFAIK, archive.org is the only major archiving service that even removes stuff based on new robots.txt and many people say they shouldn't. Other ones only obey robots.txt they find at the time they are archiving, or even not at all. Of course, most bots aren't archiving anyway so date ranges in the manner you specified isn't really relevant. Nil Einne (talk) 14:53, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Task Manager in Microsoft Windows 10 OS.

I often go to Task Manager desktop application for various reasons. Microsoft is known for it bloatware but the task manager clearly shows the magnitude. I've also wondering for a while if it is possible to come here with the names I consider suspicious and ask for an explanation. This is one example: "sppsvc" and the description for this service is "Software Protection." The status of this service is "Stopped." If it is stopped then why is it there? Does anyone know what it is? What kind of protection does it offer? Thanks AboutFace 22 (talk) 16:25, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can read about sppsvc service here. I am not sure why you think that stopped services should not be shown in the list of services? Ruslik_Zero 19:08, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]