Performance Tab Reading Wrong?

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Is it me, or is the Physical Memory reading wrong. I think that the "Cached"
reading is the free memory, and the "Free" reading is the Cached memory.

My Cached reading is always higher then the Free reading, yet the Memory
graphs shows that I have pleanty of memory available. Microsoft, you need to
fix this confussing issue...
 
DamienMS said:
Is it me, or is the Physical Memory reading wrong. I think that the
"Cached"
reading is the free memory, and the "Free" reading is the Cached memory.

My Cached reading is always higher then the Free reading, yet the Memory
graphs shows that I have pleanty of memory available. Microsoft, you need
to
fix this confussing issue...
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No it's not wrong. Vista's memory management is improved from XP's. It
tries very hard to find a use for all memory. It routinely shows almost no
"free" memory. Memory is either being used by processes or used to cache
data and program files based on past use.
 
Rock said:
No it's not wrong. Vista's memory management is improved from XP's. It
tries very hard to find a use for all memory. It routinely shows almost
no "free" memory. Memory is either being used by processes or used to
cache data and program files based on past use.
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As I understand it it shows RAM used by running stuff as used, and although
most of the rest is full of cached stuff it shows this as free because it is
really. At least in the sense that it will be immediately released for
running processes if they need it.

It takes a bit of getting used to, but so far Vista has been very good for
me in that respect, only trouble I ever get is some sidebar gadgets have
some pretty horrendous memory leaks and CPU spikes, but that is beyond
Microsoft's control as these are mostly third party.
 
Thanks Rock,

That makes sence...

Rock said:
No it's not wrong. Vista's memory management is improved from XP's. It
tries very hard to find a use for all memory. It routinely shows almost no
"free" memory. Memory is either being used by processes or used to cache
data and program files based on past use.
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Thanks Takyon,

I guess I can understand that. Yeah, I've avoided some of the gadgets
becasue of some of the feedback regarding memory usuage...
 
seems to me I remember you chewing others out for removing the previous content of posts before replying.
and here you are doing the same.



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Rock said:
Thanks Rock,

That makes sence...
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You're welcome.
 
mikeyhsd said:
seems to me I remember you chewing others out for removing the previous content of posts before replying.
and here you are doing the same.

I've only had vista for a couple of weeks, & when I got an "insufficient memory" error while trying to change the office assistance character, I freaked. I called the company that built the system, & , unfortunately, they had no clue. I still don't know why I got that message, but at least I know why the task manager looks so different from xp. Thanks everybody.

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You're welcome.
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