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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11455)11/9/2000 6:49:17 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen  Read Replies (1) of 14778
 
I seem to have an unusually small amount of unused physical memory (this means RAM?) most of the time, eg, right now 1.9M unused out of 128M RAM seems low and I've seen it drop to 32k.

I have been told by others in the past just because the System Monitor shows you have a small amount of unused memory, RAM, it doesn't really mean you are low on memory. The reason they gave was the operating system grabs a lot of memory, RAM, at startup. But just because the operating system grabs the memory it doesn't mean it immediately makes use of it. Instead the operating system reserves a lot of memory for future use. The System Monitor classifies memory reserved for future use as memory in use. Hence I conclude the best way to really tell if you are running low on memory is by checking to see if swapping is or is not occurring when you switch between programs loaded in memory.
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