I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?

Yep.

"Choice Jumper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?

Keep in mind that Vista has far better memory management features, so it is
able to let go of ram as needed when other applications demand more.


"Choice Jumper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?

It looks like it is. Vista seems to allocate memory much differently than
WinXP does and it's not unusual to see up to 50% of your memory used. The
cool thing is it seems to manage the memory much better and I'm able to load
more programs at the same time.

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Jeff Lynch
MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server
http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch


"Choice Jumper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?

Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first but if
it's using it well then let it. Thanks!






"Jeff Lynch [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> It looks like it is. Vista seems to allocate memory much differently than
> WinXP does and it's not unusual to see up to 50% of your memory used. The
> cool thing is it seems to manage the memory much better and I'm able to
> load more programs at the same time.
>
> --
> Jeff Lynch
> MVP Windows Server System - Commerce Server
> http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeff.lynch
>
>
> "Choice Jumper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?
>

Choice Jumper wrote:
> Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first
> but if it's using it well then let it. Thanks!

What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your system if
you didn't want the operating system to use it?

"Robert Moir" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Choice Jumper wrote:
>> Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first
>> but if it's using it well then let it. Thanks!
>
> What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your system
> if you didn't want the operating system to use it?

Maybe he wants it to use not so much.

It works better than in XP, so if it looks like a lot of memory is used up,
its being put to good use. Once you start to run other programs the memory
management gives it to those programs you are running anyway.

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Byron Hinson
ActiveWin Windows Site: http://www.activewin.com


"Roscoe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Robert Moir" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Choice Jumper wrote:
>>> Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first
>>> but if it's using it well then let it. Thanks!
>>
>> What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your system
>> if you didn't want the operating system to use it?
>
> Maybe he wants it to use not so much.
>

Roscoe wrote:
> "Robert Moir" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Choice Jumper wrote:
>>> Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first
>>> but if it's using it well then let it. Thanks!
>>
>> What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your
>> system if you didn't want the operating system to use it?
>
> Maybe he wants it to use not so much.

And what is the point of that? Having purchased memory, why would you not
want it to be used? My point is that this is all part of the fallacy that
only "free ram" is available for application use, which is just nonsense.

Maybe it's just me, but if I don't want my system to use memory, I just
don't buy it, which not only guarantees the memory isn't used, it also
allows me to save money and effort in installing something I don't want to
be used. Everyone wins, except for the people I normally buy RAM from
perhaps.