The details are different on various Windows versions, but press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and you will get windows task manager. Click on the Performance dropdown and you can see your memory usage as you run and exit various programs.
Just for Example: I run Win Vista (hate it !) with 4gbytes of RAM. I run AB in real time mode with data from IQ Feed. One processor runs AB and the other processor runs IQ Feed data manager. Both CPU's are busy about 50% of the time and I'm using just over 2gbytes or RAM. There is no page file activity on the disk. ReefBreak --- In [email protected], "jmdeacon" <jmdea...@...> wrote: > > I am considering buying a new computer and was wondering if there was a way > to figure out how much Ram I am using. I am not a programmer by profession > and have self taught myself a fair amount, but sometimes my assumptions about > computers etc are just plain wrong, so let me no if my thinking is correct. > > I noticed when I run an optimization, the first pass will take about 3 > minutes and then each subsequent step takes about 1 minute. I noticed a > while ago that when I installed more ram, the first step time did not change > as much as the additional step times. I am assuming that the amount of ram > is part of this. If the amount of ram is more than the amount of data loaded > in to be tested, then I will minimize the time for each additional step after > the first pass. > > If I am correct of this, is there a way to find out how much ram that > threshold is on my system? > > Thanks, > > John >
