Enough memory?

Debt_Free_Chick

T4i wrote:

I can't see Word, outlook and explorer taking up half of your memory.....

Although I've not done a cold boot, my memory usage, in order descending order, is as follows

Int Explorer 47,828k
Outlook 33,324k
Word 27,860k
svchost 17,928k
explorer 17,144k (no Windows Explorer window open)
sqlservr 14,844k
mis 12,536k
CCAPP 10,156k

All others below 10k

Physical memory available 172,880k out of a total of 523,340k

I do have 4 IE windows open. Word is not open, but seems to run as part of Outlook, for editing messages, I guess. Opening Word increases Word's memory usage, marginally, to 28,616k

Just for info

wolfman

That looks about right.

You don't have a huge amount of memory free, although Windows should extend the size of the swap file should you require more.

It may be worth you buying another 256mb memory module. It shouldn't cost you more than £15-20. This'll stop your machine relying on the swap file as much (which isn't as fast due to being stored on the hard drive).

T4i

wow, ur Outlook takes lots of memory......maybe your inbox is major full.

Just looked at thunderbirds usage.... 6,880K thats with 3 email acounts and all full of stuff.

Looks like you are running abit slim on memory. Just make sure when you order some you get the right type.

Debt_Free_Chick

Nope - my PC runs fine. Even on old fashioned dial up. Graphic intensive web pages can take a while to load, but I really don't "feel" as though the PC is underesourced in memory - no freezes, crashes etc ... but then I'm a boring old careful user

Debt_Free_Chick

T4i wrote:

wow, ur Outlook takes lots of memory......maybe your inbox is major full.

110 messages. Folder size reported by Outlook to be 5,386k. Outlook is mega resource hungry, in my experience. Just starting the thing up with nothing in the Inbox requires major juice!

BTW ... I am not complaining about memory. I just posted to illustrate the fact that IE, Outlook & Word can hog resources

wolfman

Outlook is a funny one. It did initially catch my eye though. At work, my Outlook uses 5,000K and it's quite full, yet WINWORD.exe (I don't have Word open but I assume it's due to Outlook as it's set as the default editor) uses up 32,000K.

VH

Fit a gig.

You can never have too much memory.

shrek101

Does you computer use the memory for graphics too. As some manufacters cut corners and use onboard memory for graphics. Its best to have a seperate card for graphics whihc uses its own fastre memory.

shrek101

You can actually. Its been known in the past that M$ os can run slow if too mhc memory is installed. Also some boards may not take 1 gb or have to remove the old ram to replace it with new.

BTW my outlook express takes 11mb

VH wrote:

Fit a gig.

You can never have too much memory.

Quonous

shrek101 wrote:

You can actually. Its been known in the past that M$ os can run slow if too mhc memory is installed. Also some boards may not take 1 gb or have to remove the old ram to replace it with new.

Only Windows ME and Earlier. Their sweet spot was 384MB, but would handle 512MB with only minor slowdown. Windows XP will take up to 4 gigs, but the average user won't notice a benefit after 512MB. The upcoming Windows XP 64bit edition will handle some ridiculous number, I can't remember offhand but it's in the terabytes I think.

Only old mobos should have trouble handling a gig of memory (By old I mean >3 years), mine's nearly a year old now and will handle 3GB with ease (currently running 1GB).