OT - Bumped up RAM

Steve B

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Mar 7, 2010, 4:51:52 PM3/7/10

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I switched from IE7 to 8 recently. Computer was slow. Bumped up RAM to 2
GB, and hooey, what a difference. You might look at yours and consider this
inexpensive easy fix.

Steve

RAM�

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Mar 7, 2010, 5:43:47 PM3/7/10

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Unfortunately, for me, my little Acer Netbook can only hold 1 GB. :(

Memory, for a Winders box, equals speed: the more the merrier!

Gerald Miller

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Mar 7, 2010, 11:28:05 PM3/7/10

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On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:43:47 -0600, "RAM�" <S31924...@netscape.net>
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Actually, you can bump that up to 1.5 GB
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada

RBnDFW

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Mar 8, 2010, 5:21:01 PM3/8/10

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Yessir, RAM is like some other things, you just can't have too much.

I consider 2 GB a minimum now, Win XP and above.

Bob Engelhardt

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Mar 13, 2010, 9:33:39 AM3/13/10

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RBnDFW wrote:
> Steve B wrote:
>> ... Bumped up RAM to 2 GB, and hooey, what a difference. ...

> Yessir, RAM is like some other things, you just can't have too much.
>
> I consider 2 GB a minimum now, Win XP and above.

Thanks for the tip. I had 1/2G, added another 1G ($55, Amazon). My
wife's PC, too. From 256MB (!) to 1G.

She noticed a BIG difference, but I didn't. So I went poking around the
'net & found this free MS utility ("Process Explorer") that monitors
memory usage:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

To my surprise, I have not seen any memory use above 600MB. I've opened
a number of app's simultaneously, including Adobe Photoshop Elements and
MS Excel, which I had thought were real memory pigs. They added very
little to the usage.

So I'm wondering what uses a lot of memory. Maybe data, like pix &
music. But if MP3 is, say, 2MB/minute, I'd have to have hours of music
IN MEMORY, to get up to a total of 1G. Raw music takes more, but still
... Likewise pix - I'd have to be working on hundreds of them
simultaneously.

Well, then, video. The little video I have is low res (640 x 480) AVI.
It ranges from .1M to 1.1M per second. So if I were editing a 10
minute clip, it would need 60 - 660MB to keep it in memory. So, I tried
it on a 100MB clip - it didn't keep it memory (usage only went up about
30MB).

So, I dunno. Anybody know why a lot of memory might be needed?

Thanks,
Bob

Larry Jaques

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Mar 13, 2010, 12:28:41 PM3/13/10

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:33:39 -0500, the infamous Bob Engelhardt
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Graphics files, animations, movie streaming/cache, database cache,
etc. Browsers now grab 100MB just to start up.

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Bill McKee

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Mar 13, 2010, 1:05:51 PM3/13/10

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Some systems do not automatically recognize the extra memory. You may have
to go into setup to get it in to the system.

James Waldby

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Mar 13, 2010, 1:07:30 PM3/13/10

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:28:41 -0800, Larry Jaques wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:33:39 -0500, ... Bob Engelhardt ... wrote

>>RBnDFW wrote:
>>> Steve B wrote:
...

>>> I consider 2 GB a minimum now, Win XP and above.
>>
>>Thanks for the tip. I had 1/2G, added another 1G ($55, Amazon). My
>>wife's PC, too. From 256MB (!) to 1G.
>>
>>She noticed a BIG difference, but I didn't. So I went poking around the
>>'net & found this free MS utility ("Process Explorer") that monitors
>>memory usage:
>>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
>>
>>To my surprise, I have not seen any memory use above 600MB. I've opened
>>a number of app's simultaneously, including Adobe Photoshop Elements and
>>MS Excel, which I had thought were real memory pigs. They added very
>>little to the usage.
>>
>>So I'm wondering what uses a lot of memory. Maybe data, like pix &
>>music. But if MP3 is, say, 2MB/minute, I'd have to have hours of music
>>IN MEMORY, to get up to a total of 1G. Raw music takes more, but still
>>... Likewise pix - I'd have to be working on hundreds of them
>>simultaneously.
>>

>>Well, then, video. [...]

>>
>>So, I dunno. Anybody know why a lot of memory might be needed?
>
> Graphics files, animations, movie streaming/cache, database cache, etc.
> Browsers now grab 100MB just to start up.

On my linux system with 4GB RAM, I terminate and restart firefox
occasionally, to drop its memory usage back to a reasonable level.
For example, when I restarted firefox a month ago, its resident
memory dropped from over 1GB to under 200MB; on the next restart
(a few minutes ago) it dropped from 726MB resident to 233MB with
40 pages automatically reopened.

--
jiw

Leon Fisk

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Mar 13, 2010, 1:07:54 PM3/13/10

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:33:39 -0500, Bob Engelhardt
<bobeng...@comcast.net> wrote:

<snip>

>So, I dunno. Anybody know why a lot of memory might be needed?

Try some heavy duty image manipulation. A program like Image
Analyzer:

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/

Open maybe a 7mb or larger photo with it and then try
running the deconvolution filter with maybe 5 iterations.
Used to bring my old computer with 300mb ram to its knees...

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mike

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Mar 14, 2010, 2:50:45 PM3/14/10

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On Mar 13, 9:33 am, Bob Engelhardt <bobengelha...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> To my surprise, I have not seen any memory use above 600MB. I've opened
> a number of app's simultaneously, including Adobe Photoshop Elements and
> MS Excel, which I had thought were real memory pigs. They added very
> little to the usage.

Try this setting for more detail
View
Select Columns
Process Memory tab
check Virtual Size

should see what Adobe really uses now

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mike
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