memory usage..

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Daave

Then it would seem that you've done something to interfere with
Windows normal memory management.

I'm a little confused, too. Although I don't use TClockEx, when I use
System Information, I get the following:

Total Physical Memory: 256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory: 60.94 MB

Out of curiosity, what are your figures, Ken?
 
B

Bob I

Unless you have installed some sort of "memory optimizer" software(bad
snake oil) then it means that the memory has not been allocated to a
program you are running but is currently being used by the system to
optimize syetem response. Mostly caching harddrive transfers.
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

I'm a little confused, too. Although I don't use TClockEx, when I use
System Information, I get the following:

Total Physical Memory: 256.00 MB
Available Physical Memory: 60.94 MB

Out of curiosity, what are your figures, Ken?

At the moment,

Total: 2GB
Free: 603MB

But I'm running Vista Ultimate on this machine.

On my wife's machine, running XP Professional, with very few programs
running,

Total: 512MB
Free: 153MB
 
D

Daave

At the moment,

Total: 2GB
Free: 603MB

But I'm running Vista Ultimate on this machine.

On my wife's machine, running XP Professional, with very few programs
running,

Total: 512MB
Free: 153MB

Those figures seem reasonable. But I don't see how this squares with the
statement "memory use [is] at 100% (or near it) *all* the time." I
realize that as long as there is little paging, RAM usage at this level
is fine. But I inferred from your other post that there's something
wrong if RAM usage is significantly lower than 100% (that is, if there
is a considerable amount of "free" or "available" RAM). So, what am I
missing here? :)
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

At the moment,

Total: 2GB
Free: 603MB

But I'm running Vista Ultimate on this machine.

On my wife's machine, running XP Professional, with very few programs
running,

Total: 512MB
Free: 153MB

Those figures seem reasonable. But I don't see how this squares with the
statement "memory use [is] at 100% (or near it) *all* the time." I
realize that as long as there is little paging, RAM usage at this level
is fine. But I inferred from your other post that there's something
wrong if RAM usage is significantly lower than 100% (that is, if there
is a considerable amount of "free" or "available" RAM). So, what am I
missing here? :)


Perhaps "100% (or near it) *all* the time" is a slight exaggeration.
The point is that there should be very little free.
 
C

ClueLess

Then it would seem that you've done something to interfere with
Windows normal memory management.

I have not done anything except to use some features of TYweakUI.

When I open the Windows Task Manager, in the Performance Tab it shows
the following:



Physical Memory (K)
Total 777712
Available 609904
System cache 346208

Pagefile usage 112 mb

As I understood from my DOS days, programs and data are loaded in
memory for execution and once the program is closed the memory is
released. Presently only Agent is loaded. If I use more programs at
the same time I have seen more memory being used - indicated by
TClockEx's tray information.

Now I am stronger in my belief that memory is used only as required
and released when not required.

ClueLess
 

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