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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (92272)	2/18/2010 5:43:57 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) of 213173

>>Most Windows 7 systems consume nearly all RAM; less than half of XP PCs do<< I read a blog post about this earlier today. Turns out the data collection is suspect, for one thing. The other point I'd make is that it's not a bad thing at all for a computer to use most of its available RAM. If it does, that means it has been configured correctly for the tasks its called upon to perform. The problem would be if the computer consistently used more RAM than was physically available, which would lead to swapping memory contents back and forth from the hard drive, which would in turn reduce overall system performance. I noticed a long time ago that XP systems would start swapping to disk long before the physical RAM was all in use. If Windows 7 uses all the hardware RAM first, that's a good thing.

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