Yah, I noticed that what Im looking at in the taskmgr under Memory, isn't the same that's shown by the Resource Monitor (you can find this button in the task mgr). Pre SP1 I would hang around 700-800 megs Im sure Ive added software and such over the past couple of months and I ran some of the early RC's of SP1 but I shouldn't be sitting at 1.2GB of ram with the pc sitting idle for 8 hours. Most notable was the window popping up telling me to shutdown certain programs to save ram (always IE and MSN messenger it seems).
I would be sitting at 1.7-1.8gb of ram, with just the desktop word/outlook/ie running 'apps' and really only a few additional background apps (msn, sav11 (not endpoint) , sidebar, remotely anywhere and cisco vpn service). From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 1:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vista SP1 ram usage Hmm, I'm a brand newly minted everyday Vista user as of last week (new laptop, woohoo) (and this is my first posting from OL 2007). I'll assume you have checked the box for "show processes from all users". It's a bit of a trick to get taskmgr to startup automatically in elevated mode so that all tasks are displayed. I poked around and I can get you 3 different numbers for RAM usage for any given process! 1. The regular Task Manager column "Memory (Private Working Set) 2. The Task Manager Commit Size (must add this column with View, Select Columns) 3. The number reported by tasklist For example, I show audiodg.exe at 7,640K for PWS, 18,108K for Commit Size, and 12,148K from tasklist. I know what PWS and Commit Size are, but I have no clue what tasklist is reporting. At least tasklist gives you some text that can be imported into Excel for easy addition. Carl From: Benjamin Zachary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Vista SP1 ram usage Running Vista SP1 (I forget if rc or release offhand) my memory usage is way high. I started getting 'close programs' to reduce memory messages. Im using about 1.3gb of ram after a reboot and a couple hours of usage. If I goto taskmgr and manually add all the ram in use Im at about 450megs, the box is reporting 1.2gb of ram in use. Obviously not even close. Whats out there that will help me find whats using memory that's hidden from taskmgr or is there a better way to get a more accurate assessment of what is in use so I can turn it off. Thanks ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
