High Pysical Memory Usage

[Guest]

Hi All

I have been using XP for a long time now and the Physical Memory Usage on
that was fine, however, I have now installed Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
Edition and my Physical Memory is constantly using something like 600+ MB
which I think is outrages???

Is there some kind of memory leak in Vista, is there something I need to
disable.

Please help as I believe it is causing my system to slow down.

I have 1GB of Cas Latency 2 Gaming RAM and a AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Processor

Thanks

 

[Byron Hinson]

Ignore the problems that used to happen with XP - Vistas memory management
is a lot different. Yes it is using up a lot of memory there, but there is
reason, its judged what programs you will be opening with Super Fetch so
they will load faster, this makes it look like loads of memory is used, but
if you load up a game or a program then Vista adjusts the memory
accordingly. So while it seems like a lot, there is no leak, its just a
better overall performance.

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Electus

Having free RAM is like having an uncultivated, overgrown field.. it is
unproductive and useless.. the great thing about Vista is that it makes use
of all resources available to it..

 

[Guest]

Electus,

No, it's normal. Get another GB of RAM. I have 4GB running on my system
with 3GB recongnized and used by Vista, and 30% of that is being used all the
time - that's 1GB! That extra GB you get should speed you up and put you
where I think you should be.

The minimum RAM for Vista is 1GB. Has the minimum ever lead to the best
performance in a PC?

 

[Guest]

Actually, minimum is 512Mb. Recommended is 1Gb or higher. ;-)