Re: do I need more ram

"Gerry" <gerry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Perky

The answer to your question depends on how much use your system makes of
the page file. Any graphics programme use a fair bit of memory. You
mention movie editing. If the application you are using includes an undo
process then this normally means that even larger amounts of memory are
required. In these circumstances 512 mb RAM may be insufficient. You
need to carry out tests of usage when doing typical tasks.

Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak? When
the Total exceeds your RAM then there is a presumption that the system
is is using the pagefile, although there are some processes that will
use the pagefile and not RAM.

Use the following to see how much page file you really need.

http://www.standards.com/index.html?PageFileUsageMonitor

Most of the usual apps do NOT use enough of the memory available.
Some apps go overboard with te pagefile, even when there's lots of free
memory.

You can do a better check on pagefile usage using pagefilemon.

Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to run
immediately after start-up and look at the log. Pagefilemon takes
snapshots. You need to run it at the beginning of the session at then
run it again at intervals throughout the sessions. The log is Pagefile
log.txt. If you right click on the file in Windows Explorer and select
Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The same applies to
XP_PageFileMon.exe.

A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

Note that programs using undo features, particularly those associated
with graphics and photo editing, require large amounts of memory so if
you use this type of programme check these first observing how the page
usage increases when they start and whether the usage decreases when you
close the programme.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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perky wrote:
thank you for the swift reply. I have heard of crucial and I will
deal with them If I decide to add the memory
perky





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