RAM being used up when im doing nothing?

[rnix]

My RAM is being used up when im doing nothing,



Help?

[Stephen!]

36% is being used.. I don't see how that's a problem.

[N!ck]

My RAM is being used up when im doing nothing,



Help?

You're using about 1GB RAM idle which is pretty normal for Vista. Mine was using something like 700MB on a fresh install.

[rnix]

oh i was reading the graph thingy
Sorry

[Recursion]

Your fine, I generally use 2.41GBs out of 4GB, all im doing is three MSN convos, iTunes, Tweetdeck and general background tasks.

[N!ck]

Your fine, I generally use 2.41GBs out of 4GB, all im doing is three MSN convos, iTunes, Tweetdeck and general background tasks.

:S mine hits about 1-1.5GB at the most out of 4GB. That's generally with Firefox open, WMP playing something and maybe Windows Media Centre doing some recording business in the background along with the other usual background stuff like anti-virus.

[GommeInc]

!? How are you guys getting that much usage of your RAM? When doing nothing, I use 31% of RAM - that's out of 2GB (too lazy to do maths). It is pretty normal to have a reasonable amount of RAM usage though, so I wouldn't worry

[Agnostic Bear]

!? How are you guys getting that much usage of your RAM? When doing nothing, I use 31% of RAM - that's out of 2GB (too lazy to do maths). It is pretty normal to have a reasonable amount of RAM usage though, so I wouldn't worry

Vista uses RAM efficiently, caches what it thinks you'll do next or have already done / likely tasks into RAM so it loads faster, it's actually quite good.

[Mentor]

Your useing ram becuse your not doing nothing, your running an o/s and its assoiated proccesses and services + firefox (bit of a hog sometimes in itself), reg mechanic, windows messenger (again often a bit fat) and who knows how many other programs are running in the background additionally.
For all that your not useing any more ram than would be expected.

[Agnostic Bear]

Your useing ram becuse your not doing nothing, your running an o/s and its assoiated proccesses and services + firefox (bit of a hog sometimes in itself), reg mechanic, windows messenger (again often a bit fat) and who knows how many other programs are running in the background additionally.
For all that your not useing any more ram than would be expected.

Stop. First of all get a spell checker, it helps a bunch, also stop using double negatives, they confuse the hell out of the regular forumites.

Firefox is a ram hog and always has been, reg mechanic and wlm will take up absolutely minimum ram, it's Vista caching it as I said for later use, it has nothing to do with Windows services and such, it's all readyboost or whatever they're calling it these days. It just adds extra ram to the programs that are running to enable them to run just that extra bit faster, which is why programs (i.e games that use bucket loads of ram) can call on huge amounts of ram which the computer is seemingly using, it just removes the cache for the benefit of the most active application, causing it to run faster.

Efficiency.