Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/19/11:35:47
> > Yeah - well, I'm running Win2000 with 64 Mb of RAM and it's a very
happy
> > bunny. What I don't understand is how when it's idle, with no
applications
> > running, the task manager reports the memory in use as 46 Mb - how can
it
> > use so much just for its kernel + explorer?
>
> It reports how much memory was available to Windows when it booted up.
> Maybe you've installed a RAM drive or some other application which uses
up
> extended memory before it can get to Windows.
I think windows uses 'free' memory as a big resizable disk cache. So
windows will
use all you memory to cache things from disk, and will (propably never)
only use
the memory it really needs. I think windows actually ties to use all your
physical
ram all the time, to keep thing as fast as possible.
Doug
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