Is it common for Vista to suck up 37% of RAM?

[Choice Jumper]

I have 1.5gigs of ram. Vista is sucking up 37% of it. Is this normal?

 

[Mike C.]

Yep.

 

[Mike C.]

Keep in mind that Vista has far better memory management features, so it is
able to let go of ram as needed when other applications demand more.

 

[Jeff Lynch [MVP]]

It looks like it is. Vista seems to allocate memory much differently than
WinXP does and it's not unusual to see up to 50% of your memory used. The
cool thing is it seems to manage the memory much better and I'm able to load
more programs at the same time.

 

[Choice Jumper]

Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first but if
it's using it well then let it. Thanks!

 

[Robert Moir]

Well alright! That makes me feel better. I was like WTF at first
but if it's using it well then let it. Thanks!

What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your system if
you didn't want the operating system to use it?

 

[Roscoe]

What would be the point of buying memory and installing it in your system
if you didn't want the operating system to use it?

Maybe he wants it to use not so much.

 

[Byron Hinson]

It works better than in XP, so if it looks like a lot of memory is used up,
its being put to good use. Once you start to run other programs the memory
management gives it to those programs you are running anyway.

 

[Robert Moir]

Maybe he wants it to use not so much.

And what is the point of that? Having purchased memory, why would you not
want it to be used? My point is that this is all part of the fallacy that
only "free ram" is available for application use, which is just nonsense.

Maybe it's just me, but if I don't want my system to use memory, I just
don't buy it, which not only guarantees the memory isn't used, it also
allows me to save money and effort in installing something I don't want to
be used. Everyone wins, except for the people I normally buy RAM from
perhaps.