I can only "use" 450 megs of ram. How about you?

[spazntwich1]

Heh, I bought my RAM when it was super cheap, and just for the heck of it I got 768 megs of crucial pc2100. Yesterday, I tried to push myself to the max. I opened the following programs:

Trillian (www.trillian.cc)
Winamp
2 Mozilla windows
2 IE windows
MAME + some ROM
Quake3, 1600x1200 max settings
Aliens vs. Predator 2 1280x960 "best" settings
MBM 5
Morpheus
Some other really small programs

I checked my RAM usage, and it was only at about 450 megs of usage! Sure, I could have opened up some high res Photoshop images, but that's cheating. What's up with that? Is anyone going to need 512 megs of ram for a very long time? Seeing as even my situation was horribly unrealistic (q3 AND avp2) in ittself, and didn't come close to the 512 meg mark...

Whatever. How much ram do you all regularly use?

 

[Rand]

Regularly my memory usage hangs around 150-160MB for general usage.
For general web design while multitasking a few related programs I hit about 250MB usually.
I do quite a bit of heavy photo editing and manipulation, graphics creation etc.
During such tasks I generally use about 400-450MB of RAM.

I usually peak at roughly 550MB of RAM if I'm surfing the net, working in FrontPage or DreamWeaver and also doing some word-processing and image editing apps simultaneously... such usage all at once is rare for me but it doesnt happen sometimes.

If I intentionally chose to unrealistically stress my system I have little doubt I could boost it to numbers over 800MB... though as I stated that would be intentionally running my system in a manner in which I would never realistically run it.

As you can see for my uses it is quite realistic for me to need and utilize over 512MB of RAM, and on the rare occasion I will fully utilize all of that amount. Naturally I prefer to have some headroom over that figure and so I have 640MB of RAM in my main system.

 

[sharkeeper]

I can never have enough memory to keep myself happy!

Cheers!

 

[spazntwich1]

<< I can never have enough memory to keep myself happy!

Cheers! >>



*chokes*

What'd you open to get that kind of usage?

 

[sharkeeper]

Photoshop, Premier, about 8 explorer windows, 4 PC Anywhere sessions, 2 telnet sessions, and a internet game of hearts!

Internet explorer can use a lot of memory just by opening a large compressed image!

Try this

Watch memory use in task manager when that image loads!

Cheers!

 

[spazntwich1]

That's darn impressive. Both for it's staggering mem usage, and the actual picture.

 

[Challenger]

Where do I find Task Manager in Windows ME?

 

[Scootin159]

<< Where do I find Task Manager in Windows ME? >>



you don't, it's only in windows NT/2000/XP

 

[Challenger]

No wonder I could never find it!Is it in WIN XP?

 

[Budman]

sharkeeper you made me use 618megs !!! :Q

 

[Bovinicus]

Sure, memory usage always increases dramatically. I remember when 128MB was overkill. As software advances to take more advantage of modern hardware, the necessary system resources to keep things running smoothly will increase as well.