This article is brilliantly done. I follow your work from time to time, and watch the site with some regularity, but this piece is wonderful. A great number of things in modern life that we treat casually are, as you say in this case, rocket science, meaning complex, not obvious, and not easily researched because any casual viewing will suggest the wrong conclusions, and because the people working in the field involved are not thinking well about how what they are doing will affect other people.
With appreciation for your care and thought,
Chauncey Bell
How to measure Windows 7 memory usage
How do installers impact memory usage?
Now the Office installer begins running. The system is still well within its comfort zone as measured using the In Use bar in Resource Monitor and the Memory indicator in Task Manager.
For more details, see Windows 7 memory usage: What’s the best way to measure?
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this admin tool is very useful, but I can tell you for sure that programs like Autocad 2010 and its addon's can for sure kill memory in Win 32 and I have also had some other programs that I haven't been able to isolate that can kill the amount of memory without using the pagesys file that is supposed to work when you do run out of ram. I have had to search out programs and end task them to recover when I'm desparate to save work in autocad. Recently, I have also seen that I get some memory errors when exiting win 7 32 a lot lately. I'll try to get back and let you know what that error is.
If I get the gist of this article, Win 7 may look like it is using most of the RAM, but there is really much more available even in a 1 GB system. So how much RAM should I have for Windows 7x64? This article makes me think that just about anything above 1GB is almost superfluous (my system came with 4GB). My computer is frequently used for home design (3D CAD) programs and my son frequently plays 3-D games.
I can measure things & try to set a benchmark, but there must be
norms somewhere for a reasonably configured system (not minimum,
not overly expensive). Where?
norms somewhere for a reasonably configured system (not minimum,
not overly expensive). Where?
@RonMM3
Ron, did you ever find the benchmark for Win7 system configuration etc. that you mentioned in your reply to
Ron, did you ever find the benchmark for Win7 system configuration etc. that you mentioned in your reply to
@RonMM3
Ron, did you ever find the benchmark for Win7 system configuration etc. that you mentioned in your question to Ed Bott in his article "Windows 7 memory usage: What's the best way to measure?" ? I am trying to figure it out also; I am new to Win7. I am a "hardware design engineer" so I am familiar with a PC, and with software, though I am not a proficient programmer or Windows "expert". I just need to figure out how to determine memory use on my 4GB Toshiba laptop so I can find problems when it starts to "act up". I am having a software problem which seems like it should be a memory problem but I can't figure out what I need to know to find out if it is. If you found anything which helped you understand how memory works in Win7 I would be very grateful if you could send me a link to something which I can study etc.
Thanks very much,
Larry Holmes
Ron, did you ever find the benchmark for Win7 system configuration etc. that you mentioned in your question to Ed Bott in his article "Windows 7 memory usage: What's the best way to measure?" ? I am trying to figure it out also; I am new to Win7. I am a "hardware design engineer" so I am familiar with a PC, and with software, though I am not a proficient programmer or Windows "expert". I just need to figure out how to determine memory use on my 4GB Toshiba laptop so I can find problems when it starts to "act up". I am having a software problem which seems like it should be a memory problem but I can't figure out what I need to know to find out if it is. If you found anything which helped you understand how memory works in Win7 I would be very grateful if you could send me a link to something which I can study etc.
Thanks very much,
Larry Holmes
Hello. please check commit bytes, in stress or heavy usage commit bytes are 1552/2038
and physical memory usage is 93%,, in idle or normal commit bytes are 700/2038 and physical memory usage is 50%,, please plz tell me is there any need to increase RAM? PLZ TELL ME.
and physical memory usage is 93%,, in idle or normal commit bytes are 700/2038 and physical memory usage is 50%,, please plz tell me is there any need to increase RAM? PLZ TELL ME.
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