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| Author: | dandeancook [ Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RAM Meter should show real (physical) value |
The RAM Meter module is useful, shows RAM usage in real time. However, the value shown is not so practical; only the physical RAM is de-facto usable, page file is slow. Physical RAM usage is more meaningful I guess, the committed value is unreal. For example in the screenshot below, the value shown by RAM Meter is higher than physical RAM installed: 
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| Author: | winstep [ Sun Aug 27, 2023 2:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAM Meter should show real (physical) value |
dandeancook wrote: Physical RAM usage is more meaningful I guess, the committed value is unreal. For example in the screenshot below, the value shown by RAM Meter is higher than physical RAM installed: Actually the opposite is true: physical RAM usage is pretty much meaningless, because unused RAM is wasted RAM. As such, all RAM is used for caches etc... - you could say physical RAM is always 100% in use. You also won't run out of memory until you run out of BOTH physical AND virtual memory. Also, applications unused for a while may be paged out to disk, but they are still using memory in your system (even if most of it is paged out of physical RAM). |
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| Author: | dandeancook [ Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RAM Meter should show real (physical) value |
winstep wrote: until you run out of BOTH physical AND virtual memory. Personally I still prefer thinking of the physical RAM limit, coz page file on disk is usually with perfectly slow access speed. That would be great if there could be 2 options for the value shown in RAM Meter: (1) physical only, or (2) physical+virtual 
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