Quote:
Originally posted by Eagle of Fire@Jan 14 2006, 08:15 AM
It shows around 4to5,000 ko on average... I have other process which take way more memory, like vsmon.exe and especially svchost.exe... As well as spydoctor.exe and firefox.exe, which I am currently using to write this. :P
|
Those numbers are quite deceptive and you should never use the task manager to elicit exact numbers. It's a measure of allocated memory to a particular process, and a number especially deceptive when talking about Windows components because of the way memory is managed. Much of explorer and the component libraries which underlie it are actually other shared libraries or processes which are hidden from that aggregation.
Besides, available memory should be near-zero at all times, anyway. Why page things out when you have free memory? You'll find that Linux will actually allocate most all of your memory after it's been up for some time, yet the system remains quite responsive.
Optimizing the "available memory" measurement in Windows is a go-fast stripes endeavor which is completely useless unless you understand the context and impact of what you're doing.