No, the applications don't manage the RAM. That's the job of the OS.
But these programs have registers in them the show the user how much memory it thinks the system has. If the register can't handle the value of the amount of memory being passed to it by the OS then it will misreport the amount of memory installed. (Modern applications use WMI in Windows to report the amount of memory in the system) Windows XP uses memory in various ways. Typically Windows XP will consume as much memory as possible as the form of disk caching. This doesn't show up in the Task Manager as it is immediately dumped out as the system needs memory for applications and the system. You can't use the values in the Task Manager to get a complete picture of memory usage by the system. It *is* true that Windows *98* doesn't use memory very well at all above 512 MB. --- In [email protected], "JIM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > N. Thomas, > > > Some systems have problems detecting large amounts of RAM. > > Some applications simply aren't designed to handle the large amount of > > RAM so just disregard the various reports you get from those tools. > > Theoretically the application doesn't need to manage ram, the OS is supposed > to do that. > Those who know says that XP manages ram just fine, I'm not convinced. I have > tried opening several memory hungry apps and checking one of those programs > that show the percentage of ram usage and it has never shown much more than > a third in use, that's with 1 G of ram. > > > The only amount that is critical is the amount seen by Windows. > > Often with large memory situations the hardware shows the free ram > > available, but doesn't allow the OS to access it. > > I'm not sure who/what is to blame but I think that it's true that XP doesn't > use ram above 512 M well. Now all you Linux people please don't say that > Linux uses ram better, at least not if you don't explain how or way. :-) > > Jim If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
