Process Software

Hi

Try Process Monitor and the good old Task Manager.

34% ram is not bad, to be perfectly honest, what is ther point of having 3GB of ram and not using all of it or at least 80% of it? say you are using 34% well the other 66% is wasted doing nothing! sadly folk think that free ram is actually helping them its not, its a wasted resource and its far better to allocate as much ram as possible to try and stop the system using the pagefile as the pagefile uses HDD, so is slower than actual ram.

If you look in the inbuilt Resource Monitor in Win7 and it highlights what is being used and by what, majority of ram is in hold just in case its needed, and at times listing you have next to nothing free, I have 6GB ram and Resource Monitor lists me as having 734mb free, but its no issue as the memory managment of Win7 and even Vista is far superiour to that of XP which does nto use ram efficently.

Win7 will re allocate ram to where its needed, say one process in a system process as defrag is using ram, then you say open Photoshop and want to do some image editing with filters, Win7 will re-allocate that ram to photoshop as a priority app over defrag, which can be done at idle.

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Its kind of a % thing, hit the system like mine with 6GB and look at the mem usage, bare in mind I'm running a conversion process (hence the loss of Aero, old app but works), Folding@Home, Email open, IE and Minefield open with multiple windows and still my PC is working perfectly quick, dispite the remaining free 56mb of ram! (this figure fluctuates)

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If I hit CTRL-ALT-DEL for Task Manager I'm only actually using 33%.

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Its a misnomer of more free ram equals a quick PC, it doesnt, only caveate to this is if all your ram is used and you have a 100% CPU process issue, but thats a process or application issue and not normally ram.