ram

[michael ellis]

Are there any standards on how much available should be on a 512mb of
physical ram.
thank you

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Michael,

No, not really. It depends on your system and what you have loading at boot
and what is currently running. Frankly, unused ram is wasted ram - why have
it if you aren't using it? - I prefer to see all of mine in use.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
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[Ken Blake]

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michael ellis > typed:

> Are there any standards on how much available should be on a
512mb of
> physical ram.


As a general rule, you should not have *any* available RAM.
Available RAM is wasted RAM. You paid for all of it and shouldn't
want to see any of it wasted. Windows works hard to keep all your
RAM working for you all the time, for example using it for cache
if your apps don't need it, then taking it back again if your
apps need it later. This is *good*, not bad.

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Ken Blake
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