Re: Physical memory free recommendation?

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:58:11 -0500

It's not low at all. It could go lower. That is why they invented the
pagefile!

Get more memory before the prices go up any more. They are climbing at a
rapid rate - again! 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
"Travis King" <anonymous@none.com> wrote in message 
news:rppac.140314$1p.1810494@attbi_s54...
> I'm not worried about my computer with 512MB of RAM.  I'm worried about 
> the
> eMachines with 128MB or memory.  When it's in idle with nothing but the
> background programs are running, only 25MB is free.  Is this low?  It also
> is having a slow bootup problem.  Would upgrading the memory speed the 
> boot
> up a little?  I should put some in anyway, I've got several spare modules
> around.
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uRYK1DsFEHA.4084@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> No set answer. It depends upon how much you have installed, how many
>> background programs you have running and what you are doing on your
> computer
>> at any given time!
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards:
>>
>> Richard Urban
>>
>> aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
>>
>> "Travis King" <anonymous@none.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xdpac.145351$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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