High memory use = Memory leak?

[Peter Parker]

I have a machine hear that is using allot of memory with nothing running.
When I start windows it is using about 134 MB ram and starts to climb
slowly. This came about by a complaint the machine is too slow. When I first
go there it was using over 521 MB ram. but what was in the Processes didn't
even come close to that much. I took awhile for everything to shut down but
I only got down to 498 MB Ram. Why? Normally on a machine like this I should
be a 100 or less. the only else running is the Office XP Pro task bar. I
have more memory coming but I don't think I should even be using that much
in the first place.

Will do a full virus scan.

1.8 GHz Celeron
256 Ram Shared with video(64) 192 Left

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a machine hear that is using allot of memory with nothing running.
When I start windows it is using about 134 MB ram and starts to climb
slowly. This came about by a complaint the machine is too slow. When I first
go there it was using over 521 MB ram. but what was in the Processes didn't
even come close to that much

Read up at www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm. Windows will do its level
best to find *some* use for all of RAM at all times - if only to cache
every file that has been accessed since power on.