Used Ram Level

[Durrthock]

Why does my ram never drop below like 61%??
Can I fix that. BTW its on my logitech g15

[Crimson Sky]

do a ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the task manager's Performance tab--check out what background processes are eating up the ram--mine is currently at 534MB with just some browsers open.

[jdbnsn]

When you pull up your process monitor as Crimson described, you may find a very long list of things you cannot identify running in the background. You could google each one until you have eliminated all un-essential processes, but there is a handy program for free-download called quickaccess (download here-http://www.processlibrary.com/freetools/ ). What it does is add an icon to the left of each process label in your list, you click the icon and it opens a window describing what it is, and whether it is needed. It's a handy tool and can be uninstalled easily when you are done. Good luck!

[CanaBalistic]

Im a little confused with the question.

A. how much ram do you have?
b. what does your keyboard have to do with the question?

I'll answer as best as i can with the information you've given. Windows is a memory devouring beast...

[Ronyx]

is vista gonna be the same or has the RAM devouring issue been solved?

[DaveW]

is vista gonna be the same or has the RAM devouring issue been solved?

Hah! I think every version bar basic asks you to have 2GB or RAM installed, which is wholly unrealistic. Most of the world is still running on 512, so microsoft are screwed if they can't lower Vista's RAM requirements.

-Dave

[Crimson Sky]

Im a little confused with the question.

A. how much ram do you have?
b. what does your keyboard have to do with the question?...

I think the G15 keyboard is the one with the LCD display that has game/sys stats

[DaveW]

I think the G15 keyboard is the one with the LCD display that has game/sys stats

Yeah, those are pretty sweet. Me though, I'm on the lookout for a clean aluminum keyboard for those all night programming sessions.

-Dave

[Durrthock]

Yes its a g15 and I have 1gb of ram. I probably need more but I cant really afford it i mean I'm at like 97% on oblivion

[DaveW]

The extra RAM will give you a HUGE performance increase in gaming, whether it's on the Graphics card or the motherboard. In my opinion RAM upgrades always give you the best 'bang per buck' when upgrading an old PC-when someone asks "Hey, how can i make my Pentium II run better? I always reply with: Get some more RAM."

-Dave

[Durrthock]

Well after Christmas I might buy one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143071

Hopefully my mom lets me get it

[DaveW]

The BFG cards got off to a bad start, but recently, they've been getting a lot of praise.

Doesn't seem like a bad idea to me.

-Dave

[simon275]

I love Albatron cards. Solid brand never failed me all ways honor warranties no questions asked. And also they try and keep prices down by just having the card, cables and the manual in the box.

I got iTunes, word and two Firefox windows open an I using 440mb.

[CanaBalistic]

What programs are open is only half the equasion. There can be %100 utilization from back ground tasks(generally not the case unless you have a nasty virus).

Durrock, while playing a game, you want full utilization. If there is memory thats not being used, then your game isnt using it either.

[DaJe]

Here's what I have being used.




http://codeinsurrection.com/pics/taskmanager.jpg

[DaveW]

Wow, that's a lot of ****.

You can probably close about %90 of that. Just don't close down any svhost.exe or explorer.exe and you'll be fine. One of those will be your sound card, (under SYSTEM) but trial and error will let you know which one that is-cos your sound card won't work when you stop it! If you can't shut it down, the computer won't let you. Shut down something vital, and you'll get the 60 sec timer, in which case hit up command prompt and type in:


shutdown -a

to stop it.

-Dave

[DaJe]

I know what most of it is, and most of it I'll keep running.

[Rankenphile]

The extra RAM will give you a HUGE performance increase in gaming, whether it's on the Graphics card or the motherboard. In my opinion RAM upgrades always give you the best 'bang per buck' when upgrading an old PC-when someone asks "Hey, how can i make my Pentium II run better? I always reply with: Get some more RAM."

-Dave

That's solid advice, especially when making the jump from 1gig to 2. Xp and its native processes take up a good chunk of a gig, if it isn't running barebones. Add in the other processes that are constantly going on a machine and it isn't hard to believe that your system is using nearly 500 mb at idle. Throw in a high-end game like Oblivion and you're going to be slowing down quite a bit.

It is pretty amazing how much of an improvement you can get going ot 2 gigs. EVen games like WoW, which are hardly graphics powerhouses, really notice a solid performance upgrade - places like Ironforge can really use up active memory.

Trust me on this one - I just had one of my one-gig sticks die on me, and it has been a real pain in the arse slowing back down to one-gig size, especially considering how many applications I tend to run at the same time when I'm working on a project.

[Zephik]

Does Linux have a windows task manager program?

[Maz]

I need to know which Linux first, I'm pretty sure Ubuntu does not. however, I bet you there is a utility for it.

[DaveW]

There is a command...i can't remember it.

it's who to find out who's logged on, so it might be tasks or something. Run the command 'man' and have a look through your shell built-ins.

-Dave

[ajmilton]

ps -ef|grep <pick a process>

that's how to find a specific process by name

ps -ef displays a longass list of all running processes. and ubuntu does have it :P