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.

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

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, 200620 yr by LLXX

App 600MB

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.

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, 200620 yr by Mangix

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.

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

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

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, 200620 yr by Mangix

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

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.

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

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

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

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