I'm running windows 2000 with over half a gig of memory. It get's eaten up. I though the whole point of NT/2k /XP was that you could use the computer all day, and if at the end you closed all the apps you'd opened up you'd be left with the same memory usage as a fresh boot. True or false?
But I don't. If I'm doing heavy multitasking (photoshop, excel, ie, winamp, moving files around etc etc) I can eat through my memory in an hour or two. Piece by piece it is consumed and not released.
I've just tried taking screenshots of my processes after bootup (120MB memory usage) and after heavy use (280MB memory usage). The memory being used by all running processes was near identical to as at bootup.
So where is this memory going?
Is there a utility that can help me diagnose this problem? It's doesn't seem to be related to any one app. Hardware or software problem, what do you think?
cheers,
- seb
But I don't. If I'm doing heavy multitasking (photoshop, excel, ie, winamp, moving files around etc etc) I can eat through my memory in an hour or two. Piece by piece it is consumed and not released.
I've just tried taking screenshots of my processes after bootup (120MB memory usage) and after heavy use (280MB memory usage). The memory being used by all running processes was near identical to as at bootup.
So where is this memory going?
Is there a utility that can help me diagnose this problem? It's doesn't seem to be related to any one app. Hardware or software problem, what do you think?
cheers,
- seb
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