memory usage in Vista 64

[boglwe]

I have Crucial ballistix Tracers pc6400. I notice that Vista 64 usage monitor and any other usage monitor is always showing that my memory is always using 32percent. Its constant, never goes down. Is this normal?

 

[Nothinman]

32% seems pretty low to me.

 

[Oyeve]

Thats weird. I have Crucial Ballistix PC8500 and mem usage is variable on Vista. I use the 32bit ver, maybe thats why. Dunno.

 

[TC91]

vista is prefetching stuff into ur memory. the more ram u have the more data will be prefetched. dont worry too much about it, the prefetcher in vista helps ur general perfromance on the desktop as well as system responsiveness (except if u dont have too much ram). vista x64 for me is also taking up ~33% of my ram when i boot up.

 

[stockriderman]

I uninstalled vista 64 after 5 months of use. I couldn't bare the bugs that it had. It would prefetch in times when I needed the memory the most and all the bugs like this. Returned to XP and can't be more happier

 

[MDE]

I'm sitting at 39% RAM usage in Vista 32 bit (2GB RAM) while "idle." Load up a game or other app and your usage will go up.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: stockriderman
I uninstalled vista 64 after 5 months of use. I couldn't bare the bugs that it had. It would prefetch in times when I needed the memory the most and all the bugs like this. Returned to XP and can't be more happier

honestly...today, i installed vista over my xp install in boot camp (osx)....then it always gave me boot errors when i switched over to my windows partition, and vista was horribly slow, so i JUST reinstalled xp again. ah, how much BETTER xp is than vista...seriously.

 

[Drexl]

What do you mean by "constantly"? Have you actually observed it long-term or are you just looking at Task Manager and seeing a flat line? It's not going to change if you don't do anything. The "Physical Memory Usage History" is only from when you just started Task Manager.

 

[Nothinman]

honestly...today, i installed vista over my xp install in boot camp (osx)....then it always gave me boot errors when i switched over to my windows partition, and vista was horribly slow, so i JUST reinstalled xp again. ah, how much BETTER xp is than vista...seriously.

Maybe I'm strange but Vista seems fine to me and the fact that the video driver can be restarted at runtime is a godsend. Of course I only boot Vista when I feel like playing a game that I don't have on Linux so it's pretty rare.

 

[Owls]

I have 4GB of RAM and I'm using Vista x64. I have had absolutely ZERO problems with Vista and in fact I've grown to like it very much.

My physical memory usage at startup is at 20%.

 

[Mem]

I agree been using Vista x64 since Jan,don't know how anybody can go back to XP unless their Vista is not setup right,personally I don't worry about mem usage, remember Vista will use memory more efficiently then XP, general use/speed etc seems very fast to me.

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: Mem
I agree been using Vista x64 since Jan,don't know how anybody can go back to XP unless their Vista is not setup right,personally I don't worry about mem usage, remember Vista will use memory more efficiently then XP, general use/speed etc seems very fast to me.

QFT

 

[jeffw2767602]

vista pwns xp into the ground. i was scared to upgrade at first because of all the negative things people were saying about vista, but im very glad i made the jump. if you dont have the hardware to run it, dont blame vista.

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: Mem
I agree been using Vista x64 since Jan,don't know how anybody can go back to XP unless their Vista is not setup right,personally I don't worry about mem usage, remember Vista will use memory more efficiently then XP, general use/speed etc seems very fast to me.

QFT

 

[Bradtechonline]

Mine is almost always on that also with 2x1GB PC2 6400 G.SKILL. Only time it pegs out almost is when I'm playing memory hungry BF2.

 

[boglwe]

yea, I am not saying I dont like Vista, I do love it. I do see a small performance lag in gaming over XP, STILL nothing you could see without actually looking at frame rates, but even this has improved in the last 3 weeks or so. I did find a copy of XP in the basement and will probably load it up and dual boot because the Logitech G25 racing wheel profiler does not work in vista 64, and I need that.

As far as the memory usage concern I had, I was speaking from a total vista newb perspective. I am not concerned with it in the least after the first 3 posts to this thread, thanks for the help folks.

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: TC91
vista is prefetching stuff into ur memory. the more ram u have the more data will be prefetched. dont worry too much about it, the prefetcher in vista helps ur general perfromance on the desktop as well as system responsiveness (except if u dont have too much ram). vista x64 for me is also taking up ~33% of my ram when i boot up.

Yeah your right there man, thats superfetch

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: boglwe
yea, I am not saying I dont like Vista, I do love it. I do see a small performance lag in gaming over XP, STILL nothing you could see without actually looking at frame rates, but even this has improved in the last 3 weeks or so. I did find a copy of XP in the basement and will probably load it up and dual boot because the Logitech G25 racing wheel profiler does not work in vista 64, and I need that.

As far as the memory usage concern I had, I was speaking from a total vista newb perspective. I am not concerned with it in the least after the first 3 posts to this thread, thanks for the help folks.

Thats the reason I just bought 4GB of Ballasitix

 

[clarkey01]

Originally posted by: Bradtechonline
Mine is almost always on that also with 2x1GB PC2 6400 G.SKILL. Only time it pegs out almost is when I'm playing memory hungry BF2.

OMG...I noticed in vista my ram's not enough to play BF2 online, it looks good, just lags a tiny bit, even if on medium settings on a map like wake island.

we have the same ram/or did till today, just got 4GB Ballistix.

 

[Modelworks]

Vista's prefetch is one of the reasons why I am not using it and others that I work with are not.

We work on projects that may go from using 256MB memory for the application to 2-6GB for it in a second and then back down to 600mb or so. The time that vista would take to swap out whatever it has prefetched just doesn't cut it. Its far too slow in that regard.

Its great for home or desktop users, but vista is going to need lots of improvements to become a workstation os.

 

[boglwe]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Vista's prefetch is one of the reasons why I am not using it and others that I work with are not.

We work on projects that may go from using 256MB memory for the application to 2-6GB for it in a second and then back down to 600mb or so. The time that vista would take to swap out whatever it has prefetched just doesn't cut it. Its far too slow in that regard.

Its great for home or desktop users, but vista is going to need lots of improvements to become a workstation os.

Now thats a logical argument. (not sarcastic) out of all the reasons to NOT use vista, this is probably the best i have heard.

 

[Nothinman]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
Vista's prefetch is one of the reasons why I am not using it and others that I work with are not.

We work on projects that may go from using 256MB memory for the application to 2-6GB for it in a second and then back down to 600mb or so. The time that vista would take to swap out whatever it has prefetched just doesn't cut it. Its far too slow in that regard.

Its great for home or desktop users, but vista is going to need lots of improvements to become a workstation os.

So just disable SuperFetch and it'll revert back to XP's model of readahead and caching...

 

[Modelworks]

Why bother even running vista if I have to keep disabling stuff to make it more like xp ?

 

[Nothinman]

So you have problems with more than just SuperFetch?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
vista pwns xp into the ground. i was scared to upgrade at first because of all the negative things people were saying about vista, but im very glad i made the jump. if you dont have the hardware to run it, dont blame vista.

Wow, does MS sign your paycheck or something?

I have a dual core opteron running @ 2.4ghz and 2GB corsair xms memory with dual 7900gt's and a 10krpm hdd. The performance is shit. I dont think you can expect specs higher than this for an OS.