How Much RAM Do You Use On Average?
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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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Everything I have, and thats 4GB :(
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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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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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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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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?
ROFLOLMFAO
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?
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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