Talk about Vista and Memory

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Well I've seen it first hand that Vista uses A LOT of memory. I just upgraded my computer to 3GB and it uses more. I'm not sure what the name of that technology in vista is to make it use more memory when you have more memory, but it's definitely working. Here's a screen shot of me using 3 programs at one. I'm at about 1.4GB of usage at the moment of screenshot. How much does everyone use on the average?
 
I have 2GB installed, 256Mb goes to my onboard video.. and I generally have about 1400MB free (idle).. under load I've never had less than 800MB free.

I use Vista Basic at the moment, but am probably upgrading to Home Premium tonight.
 
*cough* Linux *cough*

Lets see my RAM usage:
Compiz Fusion visual effects (transparency, etc)
(2x) OpenOffice documents (each 3 pages)
GIMP (Photoshop equivalent, 3 images open)
Firefox (3 tabs)
Banshee (iTunes equivalent, playing, managing 12,000 songs on an external HDD)
System Monitor (Task manager)
GAIM
Sysinfo (Everest, CPU-Z, Speedfan)
File manager (Windows Explorer)
CALCULATOR!!! :D
and...
F@H!!! (explains the jumpy CPU usage)

And your total is:
429.6MB out of 1011.2MB
And its not all hiding out in the swapfile, lets check that out:
33.1MB out of 454.9MB

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Vista is what honestly made me want to try Linux. I will never go back.
 
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Impulse666 said:
*cough* Linux *cough*

Lets see my RAM usage:
Compiz Fusion visual effects (transparency, etc)
(2x) OpenOffice documents (each 3 pages)
GIMP (Photoshop equivalent, 3 images open)
Firefox (3 tabs)
Banshee (iTunes equivalent, playing, managing 12,000 songs on an external HDD)
System Monitor (Task manager)
GAIM
Sysinfo (Everest, CPU-Z, Speedfan)
File manager (Windows Explorer)
CALCULATOR!!! :D
and...
F@H!!! (explains the jumpy CPU usage)

And your total is:
429.6MB out of 1011.2MB
And its not all hiding out in the swapfile, lets check that out:
33.1MB out of 454.9MB

0b0b16d4.png


Vista is what honestly made me want to try Linux. I will never go back.
Click to expand...

Funny that your sig says you still dual boot with Vista.
 
Impulse666 said:
*cough* Linux *cough*

Lets see my RAM usage:
Compiz Fusion visual effects (transparency, etc)
(2x) OpenOffice documents (each 3 pages)
GIMP (Photoshop equivalent, 3 images open)
Firefox (3 tabs)
Banshee (iTunes equivalent, playing, managing 12,000 songs on an external HDD)
System Monitor (Task manager)
GAIM
Sysinfo (Everest, CPU-Z, Speedfan)
File manager (Windows Explorer)
CALCULATOR!!! :D
and...
F@H!!! (explains the jumpy CPU usage)

And your total is:
429.6MB out of 1011.2MB
And its not all hiding out in the swapfile, lets check that out:
33.1MB out of 454.9MB

0b0b16d4.png


Vista is what honestly made me want to try Linux. I will never go back.
Click to expand...

haha it made me try linux too. I ended up screwing my hd's up so bad. So i sent the computer back to hp and they sent me a new one lol. It only took a month to get a new effing computer lol. I'm sticking with Vista and playing it safe. :D
 
This is why Vista uses your memory.

It didn't slow down anything on my rig, and I doubt it really has for as many people who say it has. Most people will go look at their memory usage and see it's higher; and therefore think the system must be slower. That's not true.

But you could disable it through the services menu.
 
20thCenturyBoy said:
This is why Vista uses your memory.

It didn't slow down anything on my rig, and I doubt it really has for as many people who say it has. Most people will go look at their memory usage and see it's higher; and therefore think the system must be slower. That's not true.

But you could disable it through the services menu.
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thats what i was trying to explain in my original post. anyway, since I posted this, I have actaully reached 1477mb of usage at one. so almost 1.5GB of ram is being used runing 4 programs(firefox with 5 tabs open), aim, itunes, and Nitto Legends. Before I added the 1GB, my ram usage would be at 900mb max.
 
theresthatguy said:
Funny that your sig says you still dual boot with Vista.
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Damn Windows programs that I still need. I dual boot to run those programs (mostly video related) and then I reboot back to Ubuntu when I'm done. I go back to Vista for maybe a couple hours once a week.
 
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