memory usage..

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Then it would seem that you've done something to interfere with
Windows normal memory management.
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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?
 
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.
 
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?
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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
 
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
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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? :-)
 
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
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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? :-)
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Perhaps "100% (or near it) *all* the time" is a slight exaggeration.
The point is that there should be very little free.
 
Then it would seem that you've done something to interfere with
Windows normal memory management.
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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.

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