My memory is gone

[Marquis Dufek]

I'm running windows xp pro on a 2.2 GHz system with 256K of RAM.
Immediatly after booting, my memory shows up as having only 60 some K of
memory free.
Any ideas about this? It's screwing up one of my people's work day.
Marquis

[Ron Martell]

Marquis Dufek > wrote:

>I'm running windows xp pro on a 2.2 GHz system with 256K of RAM.
>Immediatly after booting, my memory shows up as having only 60 some K of
>memory free.
>Any ideas about this? It's screwing up one of my people's work day.
>Marquis

Hi Marquis

Free memory should really be referred to as "useless" memory. Because
that is what it actually is - memory for which the Memory Manager has so
far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for.

Windows (any version) will always attempt to find some use, any use that
might conceivably be of some benefit, rather than just leaving sit there
idle and going to rot. And just as soon as some better use comes along
for any of that RAM the Memory Manager will instantaneously drop the more
trivial items from RAM so as to free up whatever is required.

What specific performance issues or other problems are you experiencing
that you attribute to the lack of free RAM? Perhaps if we can address
these issues directly then we can resolve your problems.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Microsoft MVP
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