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nightlith

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Posted: Wed, 16th Apr 2008 07:16 Post subject: Vista memory help?	Quick Quote Quote

Ok, I understand that whole idea behind using the ram to cache as much information as possible. It's logical, and makes good use of the ram all the time. And after using the OS for awhile, there's a lot of nice improvements from a low level perspective all the way to the "pretty-ness". Enough that I'd be hard pressed to go back to XP. So maybe you experience vista users can shed some light. I have a pretty archaic system by today's standards, but if I want to consider helping family members and friends, I need to learn this OS. My problem is the memory consumption. I have 1GB of ram. Superfetch (and even with it disabled, so maybe I did it wrong) will gobble about half that. If I'm reading the resource manager right. In task manager I get this: Total: 1022 Cache: 582 Free: 0 And it's sucking up 800MB of pagefile too! Where'd that other 500MB go?? I literally cannot find it anywhere. Adding up the memory usage in resource manager doesn't seem to hold the answer. What gives? (Private workspace is the memory that particular program itself has allocated, right?) And yes, I'm looking at processes from ALL users, I'm not that daft Also, I love how I went from 38 processes in XP to 51 (lol at Media Center taking 6 processes)

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Nui
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Posted: Wed, 16th Apr 2008 08:41 Post subject: Re: Vista memory help?

Would like to the answer to that as well, but...

nightlith wrote:

Also, I love how I went from 38 processes in XP to 51 Very Happy

(lol at Media Center taking 6 processes)

thats more than you need to have. I have 27 processes atm (just 3 apps running though) and that Media Center probably sucks as much as it can

Edit:
Just rebooted my system und watched vista filling the ram with the cache ^^
Vista filled the ram during the first 2 min. That reduces system responsiveness in that period doesn't it?

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g0tgot

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Posted: Wed, 16th Apr 2008 22:00 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

i stay just under a gig of usage.....i dunno bout that i need to look into that....

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nightlith

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Posted: Wed, 16th Apr 2008 23:47 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I know I could shut down a ton of processes if I kill Media center, but I kinda like playing Mahjong Titans on my tv I'm gonna try running without Aero too, so that'll free up another 1 or 2 processes. Though I'm not too worried about it as I hardly use my pc for anything but email and web. I have gone through a few service tweak guides so I'm now down to 47. I just want to know where Vista is hiding half a gig of ram. i can has computar?!

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