Originally posted by: Smilin
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: InlineFive
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Sounds perfectly normal to me. I have 2 GB of RAM and I'm using Vista Business (32-bit) and with IE and Trillian running I'm using 42% of my RAM.
If you open the task manager and look at "Free" in the "Physical Memory" section you'll see how much of your RAM isn't be used for anything, including Superfetch.
Interesting. My running applications use 884MB while SuperFetch uses up 1359MB for caching and leaves 68MB free.
Are you looking at the performance tab in the Windows Task Manager?
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. I'm
using 42%... meaning, applications that are currently running are using the RAM. Superfetch has claimed about 1300 MB, and I have 5 MB not in use at all.
Are you basing the app usage off of the physical memory block on the performance tab or based on a total of the memory column in the processes tab?
I would suggest adding the "memory - commit size" column to the performance tab. If you then scan down the list comparing private working set and commit you should see a big difference.
Apps will ask for far more memory than they actually end up using. The OS will allocate pages to them but not truly burn up physical memory until the app actually writes something to the page.