how much ram does ur xp use?

[ripken204]

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.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

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

[LLXX]

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

See image: http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/334/taskmgr2dw1.png

Edited August 14, 2006 by LLXX

[N1K]

App 600MB

[Shindo_Hikaru]

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.

[Mangix]

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)

Edited August 14, 2006 by Mangix

[Zxian]

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.

[ripken204]

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

[Nerwin]

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

[Mangix]

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

Edited August 14, 2006 by Mangix

[spazmire11]

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

[ripken204]

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.

[prx984]

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

[Kelsenellenelvian]

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

[Thunderbolt 2864]

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

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