Vista system memory issue

[Anthony H Yang]

Pls, Pls, help!!!

I am using a Sony Vaio laptop with 1 GB system ram. It comes with a built-in
Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 video chip with independent on-board 64 MB video ram,
and a shared turbo cache in system ram. But I suddenly realize that I have
problem with Vista's system ram calculation:
I run Task Manager, and display all the modules loaded in the ram, and sum
them up, I got 209,856 KBs, let's say video card takes 256 MBs system ram,
it should be 466 MBs, I have 1 GB ram, so it should be 466/1024= 0.455 =
45.5%, but the ram meter shows that 80% of ram has been used, who can tell
me where is another 34.5% of ram gone?
Pls, who can tell me? it's not fair. that's why my system is always crying
for ram.

 

[Guest]

That's because on the Processes page, on the Memory column, it doesn't show
all the memory the program actually uses. (I think)
When you click on View>Select Column, you can make other types of memory
usage visible. I don't know which is the one you want, but I always use the
"Memory - Working Set" column. The default is "Memory - Private Working Set"
and that one shows less memory than the other one.

However, the memory usage visible on the Performance page is really the
total amount of memory used.

 

[John Barnes]

1 gig of ram is a rather minimal amount for Vista, especially with shared
video. Why don't you use the Reliability and Performance monitor to see a
better display of your memory usage.