Task manager - resource meter

[Octopuss]

Few days ago someone told me the numbers task manager reports are totally wrong (we were talking about memory at that time). The guy told me it's some kind of bug or whatever in the kernel, that's just counting it wrong. Anyone can confirm this?

[Ponch]

Few days ago ... someone told me ....the numbers ... totally wrong ... talking about memory ... at that time .... The guy told me ... some kind of... or whatever ... that's just ... wrong... Anyone ... confirm this?

"vague" is the word.

[Octopuss]

Oh come on... I don't go to these forums for this kind of answers.

[WwTIPPYwW]

I can confirm...somebody told you something the other day.

perhaps a bit more detail might help.

If its related to more than 3-4g of RAM on a 32bit OS - there is a difference.

[Octopuss]

Well, I got 32bit XP and 2GB of RAM.

I got no way to tell whether it's true or not.

[WwTIPPYwW]

so what is the problem?

what are you trying to do?

[Octopuss]

Nothing, just asking about something I heard of but no way to test myself Pure curiosity.

[eyeball]

What he could have meant is the terminology used.

For example "Mem usage" under XP is not actually the memory usage of that process. If you are looking for the amount of memory a process is consuming you would infact use the "VM size" column. There is a lot of that type of thing (Especially XP and Lower) were the names shown and the names used under the hood are different.