What is your memory footprint at startup?

kppanic · 25 Jan 2009 at 22:19

Hi all,

I just bought another 4GB and now have 8GB total.

Had to loosen the timing from 4-4-4-12 to 5-5-5-15 @ 2.1v, anything tighter I can't boot into Windows.

I am running Win 7 Beta, and right after startup I am at 1389MB used. I find this odd because I thought Windows would use up more memory if there are more to use, but it didn't change much from 4GB to 8GB.

So, my question is, what is your initial memory footprint at startup?

Phil2008 · 26 Jan 2009 at 03:44

about 1gb of mem vista uses of my 8gb, but when I resume from hybrid sleep it uses about 800mb

Lanz · 26 Jan 2009 at 11:35

My test windows 7 machine uses 360MB at startup (a 1GB pc)

vertica · 26 Jan 2009 at 20:19

kppanic said:
I thought Windows would use up more memory if there are more to use, but it didn't change much from 4GB to 8GB.

Windows will be using all the available RAM it can, but this doesnt show on the graph/numbers of what is 'in use'

When in task manager there is a box that says 'Physical memory'
-the first number is the total addressable RAM installed
-the second is the amount windows has cached ONTOP of that in use (on the graph)
-the third number is the memory not being used at all.

I think this is done primarily to stop even worse 'Vista is a ram hog' rants as a pc saying it is using all the RAM all the time would worry a lot of people.

It is cached to allow fast access to files that are also on the hard disk, but other programs have higher priority over the ram, so if they needed, windows just reverts to looking on the hard disk if it needs these files and gives up the space to the app that needs it.

Phil2008 · 26 Jan 2009 at 23:37

Phil2008 said:
about 1gb of mem vista uses of my 8gb, but when I resume from hybrid sleep it uses about 800mb

No sorry, this when it comes out of hybrid sleep and 16% memory use on reboot

Tom|Nbk · 26 Jan 2009 at 23:41

Vista 64 is using just under 2GB for normal desktop usage (Fair bit of multitasking) here.

Tom|Nbk · 26 Jan 2009 at 23:44

At startup I think it uses just over 1GB.

nalla · 28 Jan 2009 at 21:43

seems low my vista when i had 4 gig used about 1.3, now i have 8 gig it uses over 2gb before i run any other prog

Kennysevenfold · 28 Jan 2009 at 22:44

vista uses 1200mb on my 4gig machine

Phil2008 · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:01

Phil2008 said:
No sorry, this when it comes out of hybrid sleep and 16% memory use on reboot

And 1.3gig when rebooted.

Happy · 29 Jan 2009 at 13:30

Mine uses about 1.1/1.2GB of my 4GB for Vista 64.

Nick1881 · 30 Jan 2009 at 16:59

Mine uses about 1.7Gb out of 6Gb, Vista x64.

craig3000 · 30 Jan 2009 at 18:29

windows 7 has improved superfecth so im guessing it loads less on startup so obviosuly start up is quicker

then once everything is stable it probably loads in cache slower than vista did so overall performance is better

what im guessing anyway

kppanic · 30 Jan 2009 at 20:17

craig3000 said:
windows 7 has improved superfecth so im guessing it loads less on startup so obviosuly start up is quicker

then once everything is stable it probably loads in cache slower than vista did so overall performance is better

what im guessing anyway

After 5 days of Windows' prefetch (superfetch?) working now my memory sits at 3708mb used at startup.