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    using over 2gb of ram on idle?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by cy246, Sep 22, 2010.

  1. cy246

    cy246 Notebook Consultant

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    Is this normal that my m11x r2 is using 2gbs of ram when nothing is opened?
     
    cy246, Sep 22, 2010
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    corwinicre Notebook Deity

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    Mine's almost always around 1.5gb, so 2gb doesn't seem extraordinary.
     
    corwinicre, Sep 22, 2010
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    Stickman Notebook Consultant

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    Same. I think that's just Windows 7 being Windows 7.
     
    Stickman, Sep 22, 2010
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    slickie88 Master of Puppets

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    And it can't be stressed enough that Windows 7's memory management is very well tuned. People shouldn't be nearly as concerned as they used to be about what your memory allocation is at idle. If some process needs more memory, it'll get it.
     
    slickie88, Sep 22, 2010
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    cy246 Notebook Consultant

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    Oh ok, I just never bothered to check system performance until today. The 2gbs just kind of surprised me because I usually thought on idle it should use just over 1gb.
     
    cy246, Sep 22, 2010
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    TalonH Notebook Evangelist

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    I have an R1 and the ram footprint is about 1.30GB. I've seen zero drop in performance as I have 4 gigs of ram in it. If you want to fine tune it, there's some threads around here that will help you with eliminating some services and such.
     
    TalonH, Sep 22, 2010
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    It's probably just Windows 7 caching information into RAM, since accessing RAM is much faster than accessing the HDD.
     
    namaiki, Sep 23, 2010
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