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anton
Hi,
Could you please help me understand the memory info in XP?
First about my system. I have a AMD Duron 1GHz machine
with 256 MB SDRAM. At startup according to the task manager it
uses about 150 MB. Ive read thats ok because a deal of it
is just used for caching purposes.
So when I use my computer it normally uses around 5-600 MB of the
770 MB it has (that is 520 MB page file) If the page file is less
it normally complains, the commit charge peak shows 780 MB right now.
and total 530 MB
I am not specially happy with the perforamance. I dont know
if its that I need more memory or if my harddrive is slow
maxtor 40 GB, 7200 rpm.
Physical memory shows: 261616 KB total, 41476 KB Available and
55920 KB system cache. Kernel memory 31 MB total, 23 MB paged,
8 non paged. If I add up the Virtual memory size column I get
around 430 MB, and the mem usage column around 180 MB
shouldnt the VM + MEM column add up to the 530 MB total commnit
charge? 180 + 430 is 610 MB. SO I guess I dont understand it.
Should I buy more memory? performance is much better at startup.
thank for your replies
Could you please help me understand the memory info in XP?
First about my system. I have a AMD Duron 1GHz machine
with 256 MB SDRAM. At startup according to the task manager it
uses about 150 MB. Ive read thats ok because a deal of it
is just used for caching purposes.
So when I use my computer it normally uses around 5-600 MB of the
770 MB it has (that is 520 MB page file) If the page file is less
it normally complains, the commit charge peak shows 780 MB right now.
and total 530 MB
I am not specially happy with the perforamance. I dont know
if its that I need more memory or if my harddrive is slow
maxtor 40 GB, 7200 rpm.
Physical memory shows: 261616 KB total, 41476 KB Available and
55920 KB system cache. Kernel memory 31 MB total, 23 MB paged,
8 non paged. If I add up the Virtual memory size column I get
around 430 MB, and the mem usage column around 180 MB
shouldnt the VM + MEM column add up to the 530 MB total commnit
charge? 180 + 430 is 610 MB. SO I guess I dont understand it.
Should I buy more memory? performance is much better at startup.
thank for your replies