that my system is using about 900MB of memory just to run W7.
Do you folks have this amout of memory be used too?
Last edited by McSeven; 01 Nov 2009 at 15:15. Reason: woops: correct memory size
With my average apps open mine is idling at just under 3gb used. Good thing I have 8gb.
Windows 7 will normally show approximately 45 - 55% of memory in use during normal running. This is nothing to be worried about but is a sign that windows is actually working as designed.
The system is set-up to load memory with those items which are likely to be used next based on your actual usage. If anything requires the memory needed this will be freed by the system without any intervention required.
The thing is that unused memory is wasted memory so the systems tries to more efficiently use the memory available
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