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How Much RAM Do You Use On Average?

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  • R Ri Qen Sin

    Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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    El Corazon
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    Ri Qen-Sin wrote:

    How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

    One application, mine, at work occupies on the average 1.95Gig of memory on a good day.... on a bad day, it tops 2gig and I overload the poor machine. I am trying hard to reach 64bit all the way through so I can reach 4gig and higher and relax.... :) the other apps all total less than 500Meg on any machine I have, sometimes as low as 180Meg.

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    • R Ri Qen Sin

      Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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      When I don't have VS2005 open (and the plethora of applications that I use to assist myself with development) about 400MB is consumed (now I'm wondering why :suss:) But during full scale development mode (apps + multiple instances of VS2005) I've seen my system hit the 2GB mark. I'm on laptop if you're interested.

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      • R Ri Qen Sin

        Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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        darkelv
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        About 3 cups of coffee.... Oh wait!! :laugh: about 1GB.

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        • R Ri Qen Sin

          Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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          Dario Solera
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          1.6 GB with anything particular open other than Outlook and Firefox.

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          • R Ri Qen Sin

            Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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            originSH
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            On XP my work machine (2gb total) uses 500mb - 1.5gb. At home on Vista (2gb total) it'll us 800mb - 2gb but I'm getting another 2gb delivered tomorrow ^_^

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            • R Ri Qen Sin

              Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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              leppie
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              Everything I have, and thats 4GB :(

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              • C Christian Graus

                1.2 GB right now. Seems about average so long as I only have one VS2005 open. I'm not on Vista, that would take 3 GB

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                I gave a 5, but looks like someone didn't like that comment. :-D

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                • R Ri Qen Sin

                  Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                  WesVanJr
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                  I use about 1gig of the 2gig I have with SQL developer, BDS 2006 and Delphi 6 loaded. I'm using WinXP Pro. Was using Vista, but dumped because of slow performance and developer environment issues.

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                  • R Ri Qen Sin

                    Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                    Mike Dimmick
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                    You're not measuring what you think you are. Windows scales its working set trimming to the demand for memory versus the amount of memory in the machine, so a 2GB machine will always show a greater amount of physical memory in use compared to a 1GB machine, with the same workload. More memory fitted will result in more memory being used for disk caching, where Windows treats memory trimmed from process working sets as being cached data. To determine whether you have sufficient memory you really need to look at the performance counters. This guide[^] was written for NT 4.0 but is still relevant today. Do note that it's very difficult to tune a desktop Windows system because of the varying workloads it's put to. A server dedicated to one task is much easier to tune as the workload is much more predictable.


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                    • R Ri Qen Sin

                      Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                      Wauna
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                      On XP Sp2 with 2 Gigs installed, I'm seeing about 720-850 megs being used. Major consumers on my machine are: AVG - 70mb, IE - 50mb, svchost - 30mb, explorer - 22mb, searchindexer - 21mb, SQLServer - 15mb, iTunes - 11mb inetinfo - 8mb and then 44 smaller processes. This could be off topic, but the thing that I don't get, is the more ram you add, the larger the pagefile gets and the more disk usage right? That's the opposite of what I would expect.

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                      • R Ri Qen Sin

                        Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                        AlexCode
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                        I have an average of 1.2Gb... I have a ASUS G1S with Vista. Usually 2 VS2005 opened + 1 Management Studio. On top of that just the basics, Outlook, Messenger, Winamp and Mozilla. Vista loads much more data to memory than XP. I find this fact good, everything moves faster. As long as I have it (memory) I like to see that the OS is using it to speed things up.

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                        • R Ri Qen Sin

                          Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                          bytor2112
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                          On average between 800mb - 1.1G on a 2G XP Pro system. Main offenders are Firefox and Thunderbird taking up about 150mb each after running for most of the day. If I kill them and restart each, they start at about 50mb then just keep growing and growing and growing! (Still better than dealing with the headaches of Outlook or IE!)

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                          • R Ri Qen Sin

                            Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                            Pawel Krakowiak
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                            Over 800MB right now, 1.5-1.8GB when working (browsers with tabs, VS2005, MSSQLMS, sidebar, etc.). I have 2GB and am running Vista. Jeff Atwood has an interesting read[^] on his blog about this:

                            Kind regards, Pawel Krakowiak Miraculum Software[^]

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                            • R Ri Qen Sin

                              Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                              I got a program for Christmas last year, Xtra Tools, which, when it's running, displays the current amount of RAM being used (in K of in %)in it's icon in the system tray. I haven't used it for awhile, but I remember we use just over 500K on average. Always the same, that's why I took it out of the startup folder.

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                              • R Ri Qen Sin

                                Occasionally, I check up on Task Manager on my XP machine to look at how much RAM my applications are sucking up. On average, it's about 500 megabytes. The peak is usually around 800 MiB and the minimum RAM usage is 250 MiB. How much RAM does everyone else's applications suck up on average?

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                                Hamid Taebi
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                                I dont know why you got 1 vote,your question was good?

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                                  I dont know why you got 1 vote,your question was good?

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                                  Ri Qen Sin
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                                  I probably violated another unspoken rule of posting… although it made it to the Code Project "Daily News". Maybe it was a bunch of 1-voters?

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