What is typical Vista memory usage?

[Butters]

Looking at task manager performance, Vista says its using around 1.20Gb when the laptop is idling. There is 4Gb in here.

The only thing I'm looking at is msn, nothing else is running in terms of open application.

The cores are pretty low, around 4% and I have 81 processes running.

I need to know if this sounds about right?

 

[edgedemon]

On my rig with nothing open and a few things running in the taskbar (steam, ntune and skype) Im using 800Mb

 

[ruffneck]

Idle
2Gb of RAM - 733mb in use
Intel C2D E6750 2.6ghz - 0% CPU usage
60 processes running

 

[allllec]

This is perfectly normal. On the family laptop vista uses 350mb of ram idle.

On my old 4gb desktop vista used 1.7gb.

It's down to how much ram you have vista is just making use of it with things lke superfetch. Pefectly normal dont worry about it.

 

[DreXeL]

I'm sitting at 2.5gb 'used' out of 4gb at the moment, with just this IE window open and 73 processes running.

As above, it's just the way Vista works, it's not 'hogging' the memory, it's putting it to good use. If a program needs any more, vista releases it anyway.

 

[Deluxe1]

1.3GB out of 4GB for me.

 

[Rackerz]

Generally around 1.2GB of 2GB with about 60 processes running, that's with 2 firefox windows and 15 tabs open with MSN, Media Player and perhaps something else. Vista handles memory well, just because more is being used doesn't mean it's slowing down .

 

[Cosimo]

880MB out of 2GB.

 

[AJUK]

After all, what is the point of having the ram if you are not going to use it.

 

[marc2003]

mines only using 588mb out of 2gb.

 

[NathanE]

Everyone's will be vastly different because Superfetch tunes itself differently for everyone depending on usage patterns.

Gone are the days of simply "hah I pwn joo because I have more free memory!" I'm afraid

Here's what mine looks like though, with only my boring Saturday afternoon applications loaded...

 

[marc2003]

Everyone's will be vastly different because Superfetch tunes itself differently for everyone depending on usage patterns.

that just goes to show i don't do very much.

 

[CurlyWhirly]

Everyone's will be vastly different because Superfetch tunes itself differently for everyone depending on usage patterns.

Gone are the days of simply "hah I pwn joo because I have more free memory!" I'm afraid

Here's what mine looks like though, with only my boring Saturday afternoon applications loaded...

I'm still on XP (athough I intend to upgrade to Vista soon) and I was wondering what the references to 'no symbols' mean in the Paged Limit and Non-Paged Limit sections

 

[marc2003]

^that's not part of vista. you can run it on xp too.....

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

i can't actually answer your question though.

 

[NathanE]

No symbols means I haven't added the SRV path to Process Explorer (because it takes longer to load up if you do). Symbols are basically debugging files provided by Microsoft for the kernel and such like. Lets the software do even more in-depth things...

 

[Hobgoblin]

50 processes and 1.2GB in use, with 4GB installed and 64bit premium

 

[Margaret]

55 processes at the moment with 1.36GB in use, 4Gb installed and x64 Vista (Ultimate if that makes any difference)

 

[fat-600]

^that's not part of vista. you can run it on xp too.....

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

i can't actually answer your question though.

thanks for that link been looking for somthing like this

 

[Matteysan]

for me with skype, msn, winamp, desktop earth open.

1gig ram.

 

[Clarkey]

you need more ram dude, my experience of vista on 1gb systems is that its a real slug.