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how much ram does ur xp use?

Poll: xp memory (59 member(s) have cast votes)

xp memory

  1. 100mb (17 votes [28.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 28.81%

  2. 200mb (14 votes [23.73%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.73%

  3. 300mb (8 votes [13.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.56%

  4. 400mb (6 votes [10.17%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.17%

  5. 500mb (2 votes [3.39%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.39%

  6. 600mb (3 votes [5.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.08%

  7. 700mb (5 votes [8.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.47%

  8. 800mb (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  9. 900mb (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. 1000mb (4 votes [6.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.78%

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#1 User is offline   ripken204 

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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:27 PM

just wondering how much ram usage you guys are getting on xp. this is just b/c ive heard that vista is suppose to use 500mb of ram, i dont know if this is true, let me know if im wrong. but with my programs that are running right now which is almost none, im getting a little under 400mb of ram used.

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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:30 PM

I am getting a little over 400megs of constant load on my machines ram.

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Posted 13 August 2006 - 11:53 PM

XP itself? 66.7Mb here, measured with no other programs running. (Total - Available physical memory)

See image: http://img224.images...taskmgr2dw1.png

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 12:20 AM

App 600MB

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 02:47 AM

Little over 200 here, this is currently with 4 active applications (Opera, Trillian, ZoneAlarm and Zoom Player <playing a 200 meg media file.) and several background apps running, i think approx 14 or so apps.

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 12:20 PM

300-400MB here. it mostly uses closer to 300MB though. if i have no open programs(well the non-important ones), it gets down to about 100-200(closer to 200)

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 12:32 PM

Well... how are people measuring this RAM "usage"? You guys also forget that if you've got a pagefile, then inactive RAM will be swapped to the disk.

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 01:24 PM

well im just talking about what the performance tab in the task manager says. is there a more accurate way?

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 02:47 PM

Just Under 700MB Here.......

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 03:59 PM

View Postripken204, on Aug 14 2006, 11:24 AM, said:

well im just talking about what the performance tab in the task manager says. is there a more accurate way?

meh. the RAM that's showed on the Task Manager tab is nothing. a lot of programs can use up a LOT of virtual memory. Process Explorer shows Opera using at least 100MB memory ;).

edit: here's an ss of that i mean

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This post has been edited by Mangix: 14 August 2006 - 04:01 PM

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 04:24 PM

well my system seems to always stay atleast 50%. but i find that acceptable haveing what im doing all open. this is with 1gb of ram btw

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 07:42 PM

Mangix- my opera virtual size in that program is 390mb... but in the normal task manager the virtual size it 90mb which seams more reasonable. something's lying to me here.

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 08:01 PM

my laptop is using about 93 mb of ram. i have 384 total. not bad for a laptop eh? hehe :D

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 08:17 PM

Seems to me the more ram I have available the more gets used.

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Posted 14 August 2006 - 08:47 PM

A little over 400MB, 440MB to be clearer.

When I used Vista, it used about 900MB, which was insane.

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Posted 15 September 2006 - 06:16 AM

400 +

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Posted 15 September 2006 - 07:57 AM

380 max....which avast running...msn7.5....IE7...nero...limewire

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 05:51 AM

200 when using Firefox.

But 130mb when not.

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 12:35 PM

I have voted for 300MB, but uses aprrox 240-280MB only

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Posted 07 January 2007 - 02:43 PM

when my computer is just starting, and no programs have loaded, my computer runs an amazing 77.5MB.

once its finished loading after boot, no additional programs, its as low as 130MB. once i'm running Winamp, Trillian Pro, Opera with maybe 4 tabs max, i'm up to about 380...which is a little over 40% of my memory, but i'm trying to get more...i don't really need it, but it will help a lot

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