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I too have 1Gb of DDR ram and mine sits around 45% and may go up to 65%



"Peter in New Zealand" wrote:

> Hello. I have Vista Home Premium on a machine with an Athlon 2.2 Ghtz CPU, 1
> Gbyte of RAM, and a 256 ATI graphics card. Everything about the machine is
> bog standard. My question stems from watching the little gadget on the Vista
> sidebar that reads the CPU and RAM usage. The CPU gauge bounces from one end
> of the scale to the other at times when the machine is real busy, and that's
> good. I feel I'm getting my money's worth out of the CPU. But the RAM gauge
> never, and I mean never, gets above 60%.
>
> Now, I am the sort of person who likes to think I am getting my $ worth out
> of the hardware. Am I really not using my full 1 Gbyte, or is the little
> gadget really just a very approximate indicator that doesn't give a reliable
> indication? Or is it just nor able to respond to the peaks of RAM use
> because they come and go too fast?
>
> I realise this is maybe a kind of tight-ass question, but I don't loose any
> sleep over it. Just love to know what's really going on in there. TIA.
>
> --
> Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.)
> Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and
> compulsive computer fiddler.
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