Re: Physical memory free recommendation?

From: Travis King (anonymous_at_none.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:45:59 GMT

I'm not worried about my computer with 512MB of RAM. I'm worried about the
eMachines with 128MB or memory. When it's in idle with nothing but the
background programs are running, only 25MB is free. Is this low? It also
is having a slow bootup problem. Would upgrading the memory speed the boot
up a little? I should put some in anyway, I've got several spare modules
around.
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uRYK1DsFEHA.4084@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> No set answer. It depends upon how much you have installed, how many
> background programs you have running and what you are doing on your
computer
> at any given time!
>
> --
> Regards:
>
> Richard Urban
>
> aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>
> "Travis King" <anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
> news:Xdpac.145351$po.879346@attbi_s52...
> > About how much percent free of physical RAM should you have left most of
> > the
> > time... meaning, how much percent free do you recommend to have free at
> > all
> > times? Or how many megabytes of physical RAM should you have free
anyway?
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
>

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