Abnormal mem usage?

adelburn · 7 Aug 2007 at 19:50

Just opned task manager and the memory usage floats around 40% idle wheras cpu usage is 1% idle.

Is this normal?

Running vista 64bit premium on below spec
GA-P35C-DS3R
E2140 at 2.6ghz 333x8
Ballistix 5300

Gonzo0 · 7 Aug 2007 at 20:22

Vista likes to munch on RAM so dont be surprised if you see a lot of your memory being used up when your doing nothing.

allergate · 8 Aug 2007 at 07:58

Im running vista 32 home premium with 2 gigs of ram and its cached so much i only have 16mb free. Any ideas as to why?

adelburn · 8 Aug 2007 at 11:02

allergate said:
Im running vista 32 home premium with 2 gigs of ram and its cached so much i only have 16mb free. Any ideas as to why?

Even after I tweaked a few things my mem usage was 40% idle.

I turned indexing and system restore off(as I would do a clean install if anything went wrong) and also turned that rather annoying UAC thingy off.

Also 1 last thing was I turned the Windows sidebar off and the welcome center, i changed that to not run at start up.

Yellowbeard · 8 Aug 2007 at 16:07

adelburn said:
Just opned task manager and the memory usage floats around 40% idle wheras cpu usage is 1% idle.

Is this normal?

Running vista 64bit premium on below spec
GA-P35C-DS3R
E2140 at 2.6ghz 333x8
Ballistix 5300

I saw a guy post earlier today ( I can't remember where ) that with XP his total memory usage at idle was 23%. He "upgraded" to Vista and made no hardware changes (still 2 x 1gb) and his idle usage was 46%.

So, your usage is 40% of how much memory?

adelburn · 8 Aug 2007 at 17:01

I've got 2x1gb sticks of ballistix 5300.

Cob · 8 Aug 2007 at 19:28

Vista caches a lot of things in memory. It's not actually 'using' the memory and it immediately releases it when it's needed by something else.

XP's memory management was/is crap. Vista's is far better.

shaffaaf27 · 8 Aug 2007 at 21:39

im using 1.25GB, of non branded DDR1 mem at 200MHz, ans only 33% of mine on boot up at idle is used.

stickroad · 8 Aug 2007 at 23:22

Cob said:
Vista caches a lot of things in memory. It's not actually 'using' the memory and it immediately releases it when it's needed by something else.

XP's memory management was/is crap. Vista's is far better.

Dont people understand this yet?

When anyone talks about Vista they go, OMFG Vista uses up so much Memory i getter get 8Gigs of it. :rolleyes:

Vista handles system Memory so much more diffrently (better) than XP does as Cob has said. :cool:

MumboJumbo · 8 Aug 2007 at 23:46

shaffaaf27 said:
im using 1.25GB, of non branded DDR1 mem at 200MHz, ans only 33% of mine on boot up at idle is used.

Thats because the other 77% is corrupt and doesn't work

Yellowbeard · 9 Aug 2007 at 15:18

8igdave said:
Thats because the other 77% is corrupt and doesn't work

Wow, that's 110% total now. He must be OCed.

V|per · 9 Aug 2007 at 15:33

Yellowbeard said:
Wow, that's 110% total now. He must be OCed.

aah, leave him alone, he's from essex (i'm allowed to say that, was born and bred in Basildon

)

Van Diemen · 9 Aug 2007 at 16:44

Vista 64 here & 33% RAM used in idle. But as others have pointed out Vista manages RAM a lot better than XP.

MumboJumbo · 15 Aug 2007 at 10:54

Yellowbeard said:
Wow, that's 110% total now. He must be OCed.

I was tired grrr lol.

And about the essex comment. I am stuck surrounded by chavs its not nice you know lol.

Yellowbeard · 15 Aug 2007 at 15:32

V|per said:
aah, leave him alone, he's from essex (i'm allowed to say that, was born and bred in Basildon )

LOL....so what are the 2 areas like? We have an area near us that we have fun fun with. They are known for being backwoods rednecks, very few teeth, limited capacity for abstract thought, inbreeding, etc.