My question is, what is considered high physical memory use. I have an HP laptopo with AMD turion 64x2 and 4 gigs of ram.My operating system is VISTA Home Preimum and when I look at Resource overview, it show that I am using 69% of the physicla memory. Is this good or bad?
lstjean 0 Newbie Poster
BestJewSinceJC 700 Posting Maven
It depends on what programs you are running and what is taking up your RAM. Vista definitely isn't using more than a gig, so I would say it is probably bad. But like I said. . it depends what you are running.
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
I just checked mine - 69%. Coincidence, I'm sure - also 4GB system.
Anyway, it's not 100% usage - so that's OK. Vista uses spare RAM as a cache, but that's not in the 69%. I unloaded Acrobat 9 - it went down to 63%. I unloaded Outlook 2007, it fell to 54%. I unloaded Word 2007, it dropped to 51%. I unloaded IE8 and it fell to 48%.
What's left is Vista, McAfee, the 512MB Video RAM, the various device drivers and buffer RAM.
So, I think your system's performing adequately.
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