So what's using up my RAM?

[letdown427]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/letdown427/47888k.jpg

Basically, deleted lots of unnecessary processes(including explorer, hence that funky background, I ust have that as my other background that flashes during boot and stuff, dno y)

It reads 112Mb used up, but the running processe smemory use adds up to only 47,888k?

Please enlighten me!

WAIIIT A MINUTE, it's not my AGP shared thing is it? I bet it f'in is, and now I look stupid. Damn!

lol

 

[wetcat007]

112-48=64mb 64mb is a common size for shared video memory...

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: letdown427
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/letdown427/47888k.jpg

Basically, deleted lots of unnecessary processes(including explorer, hence that funky background, I ust have that as my other background that flashes during boot and stuff, dno y)

It reads 112Mb used up, but the running processe smemory use adds up to only 47,888k?

Please enlighten me!

WAIIIT A MINUTE, it's not my AGP shared thing is it? I bet it f'in is, and now I look stupid. Damn!

lol

The "AGP Aperture" memory is not permanently taken away from your system's available RAM; it is allocated and deallocated on demand by the video driver.

However, dedicated memory for onboard video usually is (if you are using onboard video). But that would show up as your physical RAM actually being smaller, NOT as your memory usage being higher.

Summing up the total of the process image sizes from that tab DOES NOT tell you all of the memory usage of the system; among other things, it does not take kernel memory usage into account, and certain other virtual-memory related things that I don't really want to get into (see numerous numerous threads in the OS forum about memory usage, VM, and swapfiles for gory details). Look on the 'performance' tab and see what it lists for the kernel/OS memory usage; I'm guessing it is about the difference you are seeing (for example, it's about 70MB on my system right now, which is close to what you are 'missing').