Do you usually have over a gig of ram used? - GoFuckYourself.com

StuartD · 02-03-2006, 12:13 PM

I'm looking right now with my 20+ or so programs open and I have used up over 1 gig of my ram. Good thing I got 2.

Is that a lot or is that right about on par these days for what I should be using?

dropped9 · 02-03-2006, 12:15 PM

thats kind of high....

imageman · 02-03-2006, 12:20 PM

I have about 8 gigs in a Mac G5 and with Photoshop and a large file open its possible to use 4 so if i have another program open its possible to use almost 7 gigs

Baker Rd · 02-03-2006, 12:49 PM

You need a bigger swap

czarina · 02-03-2006, 12:51 PM

I need more ram for my laptop. In fact I need it really bad, but I just have not had time to get it.

woj · 02-03-2006, 12:57 PM

when I upgraded from 512 to 1 gig, the performance improvement was hardly noticable... unless you do some hardcore photoshopping or video editing anything over a gig is probably an overkill...

StuartD · 02-03-2006, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by woj

when I upgraded from 512 to 1 gig, the performance improvement was hardly noticable... unless you do some hardcore photoshopping or video editing anything over a gig is probably an overkill...

A little photoshop work... a little video. But mostly it's just some music, some ftp, some explorer and a whole lotta programming related stuff.

Perhaps it's WinXP Pro x64 that's a memory hog?

MickeyG · 02-03-2006, 12:59 PM

yeah I usually use up the full gig + some of the swap file.. I keep ALOT of shit open.

fuzebox · 02-03-2006, 01:27 PM

Yes, I'm always swapping to disk with the 1gb in my laptop... But then I've got VMware running all day.

NinjaSteve · 02-03-2006, 01:32 PM

I have a laptop and within 6 hours of working I've topped the 1gig out and have to reboot. It's lame.

Major (Tom) · 02-03-2006, 02:26 PM

i was rendering 28 mpegs and I was at 1.1 gigs.

had the dualies at 100% though

duke

sandman! · 02-03-2006, 02:29 PM

i use between 800-1200 megs on a daily basis

3M TA3 · 02-03-2006, 02:35 PM

Windows is always going to use as much as it needs. If you had 8gig of ram, it is going to try and use as much of that as possible.

It's not a problem unless you have all your ram used and it needs swap to process your requests.

who · 02-03-2006, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by NichePay - StuartD

I'm looking right now with my 20+ or so programs open and I have used up over 1 gig of my ram. Good thing I got 2.

Is that a lot or is that right about on par these days for what I should be using?

Your system will use what's available. The rest will be chucked into swap. So, even if you had 16Gb, you will notice that you're using 6+gb with 20 programs open.

gecko · 02-03-2006, 06:13 PM

Hell yea... firefox alone takes up 500mbs +

StuartD · 02-03-2006, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by gecko

Hell yea... firefox alone takes up 500mbs +

It's currently using 187Mb. Certainly not small load but not really 500 either.

Vitasoy · 02-03-2006, 09:13 PM

With that many programs loaded, that does not seem surprising. What program is using the most?

fetishblog · 02-03-2006, 09:22 PM

I've got 4GB of RAM and I'm only using about 800MB or so.

infecto · 02-03-2006, 09:28 PM

The more you have the more will be used. Its a good thing and hardly a bad thing unless you notice some performace problems such as windows telling you your swap file is running out of space. Otherwise it will just speed things up as things will not needed to be pulled out of the swap file off of the hard drive.

LadyMischief · 02-03-2006, 09:29 PM

Yep, quite often

pornolized · 02-03-2006, 09:47 PM

I almost think there must be a memory leak in firefox somewhere... mine eats up the ram as well. Sitting on 1.5GB in my rig right now with a 3GB swap, its about a quarter used and im only surfing the web =) 255mb for firefox alone...

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pornolized Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 39	I almost think there must be a memory leak in firefox somewhere... mine eats up the ram as well. Sitting on 1.5GB in my rig right now with a 3GB swap, its about a quarter used and im only surfing the web =) 255mb for firefox alone...