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JoelJ
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I'm interested to know, when you're working/programming on your computer, how much memory are you normally using and what programs do you have open?

I'm using Windows 7 64 RC:
USED: 2525MB
FREE: 1505MB
TOTAL: 4030MB

I have open:
4 instances of Visual Studio
1 instance of Eclipse (I usually have 2, but right now I don't)
Firefox
Digsby
Windows Media Player
5 instances of MS Word 2007
2 instances of MS PowerPoint 2007

The large majority of my memory is being consumed by the first three programs on that list.

So what do you all have?

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SikaSina Games
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Posted: 30th May 2009 14:47 Edited at: 30th May 2009 14:48
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Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
DirectX 10.1
Service Pack 1
GeForce 8400GS 1GB Over-Clocked
Intel Dual Core 2.00GHz

TOTAL: 3581 (3.5GB)
USED: 2657 (2.6GB)
FREE: 924 (0.9GB)

PROGRAMS:
Yahoo! Messenger 9.0
Norton 360
XFire
Task Manager
Windows Media Player
Mozilla ThunderBird
Apple Safari
FPS Creator
FPI Editor
Realtek HD Audio Manager


Mind-boggling to see how many programs your PC is using...

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Little Bill
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Windows XP SP3

USING: 1.3GB
FREE: 0.7GB
TOTAL: 2GB

Programs:

Adobe Photoshop CS2
3DS Max 9
iTunes
AVG Free
Google Chrome
Picasa 3
Windows Explorer X2
Windows Live Messenger

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Posted: 30th May 2009 15:43 Edited at: 30th May 2009 15:43
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Handy little Windows 7 thingy:


Running programs:
avast! Antivirus
Google Chrome


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David R
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Posted: 30th May 2009 15:49 Edited at: 30th May 2009 16:03
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Which equates to 975.65MB total use of 4GB (Wire + Active + Inactive = Used)

With

Firefox (5 tabs)
iTunes
Skype
Activity monitor
Preview
Grab

(Insane [max] virtual memory/paging size thanks to VMWare going haywire yesterday and leaking tons of memory)


EDIT:
After opening up Fusion with an instance of Visual Studio and Paintshop Pro X (as well as all the original processes)



2.07GB which is pretty good, especially since Fusion has an overhead of about 400MB on top of the virtual machine's actual runtime requirements

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Posted: 30th May 2009 17:08 Edited at: 30th May 2009 17:13
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Processes (Not counting the processes that are on default):
Compiz-Fusion (Desktop effects)
Screenlets (The clock on desktop)
Conky (Shows statics at desktop)
Emesene (MSN Client)
Gnome-Do (Fast application starter)
Opera (Web browser)
Code::Blocks (IDE)
Spotify (Music player)

Oh yes, I'm also running web server (LAMP) on this machine for SVN and PSP related stuff that needs fast access to wifi applications.

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Bozzy
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Used: 1.84 GB
Remaining: 10.16 GB

Vista x64:
Safari
Graboid Video - with film playing
Internet Download Manager
Speed-up My PC
RegistryBooster
SpyEraser (which really doesn't work)
Live Mesh Client

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Mr Z
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Used: 572 mb
Free: 2.4/2.5 gb
Total: 3 gb (approximatly)

Windows XP Pro SP3:
Firefox
Pidgin

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Omega gamer 89
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Used: 2.02 GB
Free: 4.48 GB
Total: 6.5 GB

Vista 64-bit

Programs:
Firefox
Darkbasic Professional
Yahoo messenger

@Bozzy:
Do you really have 12 GB? or is that a typo?

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12GB CORSAIR XMS3 1600MHz

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Roxas
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Wow, I wonder where the heck Windows uses all that memory. Especially XP, it does not even have fancy desktop effects applied.

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Oohh yeah!

Total: 2045mb
Free: 39MB OMG WTF!!! (about 20 secs ago it was 42)
Used: the rest of it?

VC++, Firefox, winamp ? Why so little memory >_> Vista problem? Im using sp2 as well


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Quote: "I wonder where the heck Windows uses all that memory."


Superfetch.

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Roxas
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Posted: 31st May 2009 03:06 Edited at: 31st May 2009 03:08
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It is not in XP, even XP uses more than Linux (Ubuntu which is comparable with Vista and XP) with applications open. And this "Superfetch" probably just uses hacky way to deal with design flaw in Windows system. Yeah, but XP does not use really that much tho What worries me is the Vista, Windows 7 is ok. I mean nowadays memory is pretty common.

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What's the point of memory if you don't use it? It gives it back when you need it for games, or memory hungry applications.

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Roxas
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Quote: "What's the point of memory if you don't use it? It gives it back when you need it for games, or memory hungery applications."

Exactly, but there is always room for more effecinent memory managment. Especially if you want to be more productive.

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My computer doesn't use memory.

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RAM: Used: 705/1023MB (68% Load)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+, 2.19 GHz, 512 KB (3% Load)
Operating System: WinXP Home Edition 5.1 SP3 (Build #2600)

Running Programs:
mIRC (3 Networks and 28 total channels across each net)
Chrome 1 tab
iTunes
Outlook (Can't think as to why that is running S: )
Msn Messenger
WhatPulse
AVG

Plus other random processes (57 total).

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Posted: 31st May 2009 05:23 Edited at: 31st May 2009 05:24
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Firefox
WindowsExplorer

Physical memory Total 2GB/Available 1.6GB/ System Cache 365(Rounded) MB
PF Usage 258 Mb of 2641

I like to keep my memory usage as low as possible.
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1.85 GB right now.

That's with 1 instance of Evolve, running; Opera with 8 tabs open, and a few explorer folders and one small Console program.

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Quote: "It is not in XP, even XP uses more than Linux (Ubuntu which is comparable with Vista and XP) with applications open"

Yeah but XP allows you to do useful stuff, for example use a decent IM application (WLM/MSN), a decent web brower (IE), etc.

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Quote: "Yeah but XP allows you to do useful stuff, for example use a decent IM application (WLM/MSN), a decent web brower (IE), etc."

Yeah, you got me there

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2035 / 3072 Mb in use with
Firefox (14 tabs)
CodeSurge
Kontakt 3
A NVIDIA Control panel
VLC Media Player (paused in the middle of a movie)
Windows Media Player (currently playing the, according to other members of the house, very repetitive song "The Grid" by Philip Glass)
Windows Live Messenger (with the plus extension)
F-Secure
+ some other processes that I can't be bothered to keep track of.

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Keep a clean system, and with Code::Blocks, Firefox3 and Pidgin running under XP with WindowBlinds effects and this is what you get.



Ain't difficult.

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Posted: 31st May 2009 21:42 Edited at: 31st May 2009 22:34
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Much better =)

//Edit, confused physical memory with Page file

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Posted: 31st May 2009 22:12 Edited at: 31st May 2009 22:18
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Much better versus what?

1049048 total = 1024MB
679740 available = ~663MB

Therefore ~361MB used, plus another 324556K cached ('wired') which is 316MB

So in actuality, you're using about 677MB of RAM, not to mention pushing 254MB into your pagefile (931MB)

That doesn't strike me as especially efficient, even being WinXP

EDIT: Also, I don't know whether task manager does 'all time' statistics rather than just current session, but look at the peak commit charge (page file use/addressing space)

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Even on my netbook, which has a 2Mb pagefile because a pagefile is unnecessary (2Gb of RAM and only browsing the internet) it says 200mb+ pagefile usage despite the fact there's actually no pagefile.sys on the system. I think that's a mislabelling of RAM usage in general.

The peak was likely about an hour before when that memory leaking thing known as Unreal Tournament 3 was running; that thing uses 600Mb of RAM on the main menu! System seems to run fine though despite games often running it half a gig into a pagefile. Unfortunately, this is the limit of the RAM I can put in my motherboard.

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Not really on topic, but you know you shouldn't really disable the pagefile - especially if you're on a netbook with an SSD

Quote: "
Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?

Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.

In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that

* Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
* Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
* Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.

In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.
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Mac OS/X 10.4 1GB ram

127MB Wired
299MB Active
432MB Inactive
162MB Free

Firefox
Adium
Finder
Mail
Safari
TextEdit
USBWirelessUtility

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Posted: 31st May 2009 22:32 Edited at: 31st May 2009 22:40
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This is a particularly cheap SSD and is guaranteed only 10000 writes which is actually very little.

Putting a pagefile on a SSD is as good a way of destroying it as that Vista ReadyBoost crap.

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Quote: "Much better versus what?

1049048 total = 1024MB
679740 available = ~663MB

Therefore ~361MB used, plus another 324556K cached ('wired') which is 316MB

So in actuality, you're using about 677MB of RAM, not to mention pushing 254MB into your pagefile (931MB)

That doesn't strike me as especially efficient, even being WinXP

EDIT: Also, I don't know whether task manager does 'all time' statistics rather than just current session, but look at the peak commit charge (page file use/addressing space)"


Oh damn, i confused Page file with actual physical ram. Thanks for pointing out.

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