Why does Vista use so much memory

[Born_2_Kill_83]

As above I have 2GB of OCZ PC6400 Ram and Ive only got 60% Left, Will Windows memory usage drop when gaming if not I have a feeling im going to need another couple of 1GB sticks soon.

 

[jaykay]

It uses soo much memory becuase its using it correctly making it faster
once you go into games it will cut down the usage by at least 50%

 

[killer_uk]

Yup, as said, it turns off all the stuff it doesn't need when you enter a game

 

[benjo plz.]

It doesn't use much, honest guv. :\

Where's the 542MB of spare ram gone?

 

[Beansprout]

My Gawd you lot would all be useless if you ever ran Linux

See the "cached" there?

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

Have you also noticed that in Windows Task Manager - Performance, the graph is never flat lined the CPU is always being used between 1/4% or is this just my computer, even when all extra programmes are shut down?

 

[benjo plz.]

My Gawd you lot would all be useless if you ever ran Linux

See the "cached" there?

And the 542mb missing memory?

 

[Minstadave]

It doesn't use much, honest guv. :\

Where's the 542MB of spare ram gone?

64 processes? Yuck

And the 542mb missing memory?

542 in use, the rest is cached I guess?

 

[wannabedamned]

64 processes? Yuck



542 in use, the rest is cached I guess?

Thats where atleast some of the spare has gone

 

[NathanE]

My Gawd you lot would all be useless if you ever ran Linux

See the "cached" there?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125

 

[Beansprout]

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125

Right, so you'd prefer MS to stand still for a few months rather than have their employees do any work?

I see.

 

[wannabedamned]

Other than seeing that theres a lot of memory consumed on the stats page, What problems is it causing? it's still faster than XP in many ways, and the RAM gets dumped during gaming.

 

[Beansprout]

And the 542mb missing memory?

Huh? Nothing is "missing"

Sigh.

 

[NathanE]

Sigh.

I feel your pain

 

[benjo plz.]

So where does the 708mb memory bit come in?

 

[J86]

Pretty much the same as me

 

[Shoseki]

I'd rather be slapped in the face by an albanian woman wielding a fish than use that operating system.

 

[NathanE]

So where does the 708mb memory bit come in?

That's how much memory is in use that can't be "instantly" reused. For example most memory used by the system cache can be immediately recycled for use in some other application that needs it.

 

[meglamaniac]

I'd rather be slapped in the face by an albanian woman wielding a fish than use that operating system.

I love a well reasoned argument.