- Aug 31, 2003
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It seems very common to read about memory usage and people tend to think that virtual memory is only used when you run out of RAM.
I thought this too, until i noticed in XP more virtual memory was being used than actually memory even when RAM was free. In vista I cannot find the total used virtual memory but do see that on task manager it shows how much paged memory is being used by the kernel.
Can anyone tell me why virtual memory is being used when i have 3GB of free RAM? Im hoping that it somehow knows to only used page memory when doing tasks that dont require speed?
I thought this too, until i noticed in XP more virtual memory was being used than actually memory even when RAM was free. In vista I cannot find the total used virtual memory but do see that on task manager it shows how much paged memory is being used by the kernel.
Can anyone tell me why virtual memory is being used when i have 3GB of free RAM? Im hoping that it somehow knows to only used page memory when doing tasks that dont require speed?