Lowest RAM usage you've ever achieved?

[spystyle]

Hello from Maine,

I was super pumped to get an XP down to 40 MB of RAM usage out of 196, but I really have nothing to compare it to. How low did you get yours ?

Thanks,

Craig

[Octopuss]

I believe some time in the past I was at around 80MB on one machine and think that's pretty good. No idea when and how I did it anymore though

[GrofLuigi]

Usually around 90-100 MB. Less (40-60 MB) on a virtual machine.

This is on idle, no other program loaded.

GL

[godfromdfo]

usualy around 30-40mb with wlan drivers and sound drivers..

look at pic I uploaded ^_^

btw, I could have done alot of other things such as have 16bit graphics instead of 32bit to lowe it even more.. but I chose not to.

edit: ncm, cant upload bmp's...

Edited April 29, 2008 by godfromdfo

[colornokia]

Around 60MB with installed MUI in virtual machine with 256MB of ram. Of course the OS is Windows XP. Probably if I disable the Bulgarian MUI I can achieve better results, but this is good enough for me

[LM2007]

Like 40MB but it was testing installation so i did not installed more programs or applications.

[godfromdfo]

My lowest is now 19mb's, and it can still play games and has wireless and stuff, check the pics on the other thread =]

[AgiHammerklau]

There is a similar thread in the HFSLIP section of this forum.

(or at least was, can´t find find it right now...)

Am pretty interested in this topic too, even though I´m on W2K (but XP will be on my machine soon).

btw. for arcade emu I´m using daphne, ´cause there is nothing, that beats the old classics :

dragon´s lair and space ace

Agi

[Camarade_Tux]

Drivers change memory usage a lot.

For instance, in vmware, vmware tools increase memory usage by 5 to 10MB (not the tools, only the drivers). Nvidia drivers on real install, by as much as 20MB (and probably even more now).

And so on.

19 MBs is unachievable (practically) except if you deal with RAM usage and not memory usage, i.e. you use swap.

[AgiHammerklau]

Thank you Camarade Tux !

Do you have the actual link to the other thread ?

My bookmark seems not to be working anymore and google is (for me) not available at the moment.

Agi

[Camarade_Tux]

Is it http://www.msfn.org/board/I-can-t-get-XP-t...AM-t116422.html ?

Btw, I've taken a look at some (now old) screenshots and in a virtual machine, having nod32, vmware tools (including the tray application) and drivers installed with driverpacks adds about 35MB of memory usage. Non-virtual machine drivers add even more (so much that if you claim a certain memory usage, you have to specify whether it is virtual machine or not).

[AgiHammerklau]

No.

I meant the one in the HFSLIP or unattended Forum, where you posted as well.

Agi

[Camarade_Tux]

Found it again : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=703278

NB : when I speak about minimal memory usages, I mean "minimal memory usages if you intend it to be usable on a different computer" (you can save space by removing bluetooth but it will be an incompatibility for someone else).