Of course you have Perfmon, it's built in to all NT versions. Type
perfmon in the Start menu Run box and hit <Enter>.
John
jbclem wrote:
> I don't have Perfmon, and to use it I'd have to also install Perl and
> RDDtool, and figure out how to use them and also configure Apache(??). I
> don't suppose you could slant your answer towards the Win2000 taskmanager,
> or TaskInfo, or Process Explorer...both of which I do have.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
> "John John - MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> You can get a quick and "dirty" overview of memory usage by adding up
>> the following Performance Counters in the Perfmon utility:
>>
>> + Process(_Total) Working Set Bytes
>> + Cache Bytes
>> + Pool Nonpaged Bytes
>> ---------------------------------------
>> = Total RAM Usage
>>
>> I use the term "dirty" in the sense that the figure will not be exactly
>> accurate but it should be close enough for your need. Using different
>> counters you can get to a closer estimate but the ones above should give
>> you the information that you want.
>>
>> John
>>
>> jbclem wrote:
>>> I'm running Win2000 on a P2 computer with 320mb RAM. So I keep a close
>>> watch on memory by watching the Task Manager. But there is a
> discrepancy
>>> I'd like to find an explanation for. Right now Task Manager shows 327
> mb
>>> Total Physical Memory and 134mb available. So the aprox 200mb
> difference
>>> should be accounted for by the processes running...but it isn't. The
>>> processes running right now (only Outlook Express 6 is open) show a
> total
>>> memory usage of about 70mb.
>>>
>>> There's about 130mb of memory being used but not showing up in Task
> Manager.
>>> Can someone tell me where this memory is going and if there is a way to
> see
>>> how it's being used.
>>>
>>> jc
>>>
>>>
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