Why am I using 300MB worth of ram?

[Shawn]

I restarted my computer not more than an hour ago and look how much ram it's using. If I add up all the processes though it doesn't add up to 300. It's closer to 200mb. Where did 100MB go?.

screenie

 

[EULA]

OS using it?

 

[Shawn]

Why would my OS be doing with it? I thought all those other processes were the OS.

 

[Anubis]

i have a gig of ram

1024MB i never see more then 750MB free, the os and progrtams running in teh background use almost 300megs of it

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Supercharged
I restarted my computer not more than an hour ago and look how much ram it's using. If I add up all the processes though it doesn't add up to 300. It's closer to 200mb. Where did 100MB go?.

screenie

Firefox. Definately. I've had it use up to 1.5GB of VM before. (Before they fixed a major memory-leak bug around the 0.9 release timeframe.)

Btw, those numbers on the lower-right corner of the window, on the status bar, aren't RAM, they're virtual memory.

 

[Extrarius]

firefox, winmx, foobar, and mc-whatever look like they're taking up 100MB. I'm guessing that you just have tons of third party programs loading on startup or somesuch.