No, he's saying the total allocated memory, as shown in the
NT task manager (which gives memory allocation by process)
is approximately half of the total memory the performance
monitor shows to be in use.
Question for Dave. Are you displaying the Virtual Memory
column in task manager/processes page? For me, that
column adds up to the total memory
in use. If that exceeds or approaches your total available
virtual memory as shown on the performance page of the
task manager, then it's quite possible you don't have
a large enough swap space allocated for the normal
processes you're running. Of course, you may also not
have enough physical memory.
For instance, on my computer I have at the moment 80216k
committed and 118848k available (the latter being physical
memory plus total swap space). The 80216k is what the
virtual memory column of task manager adds up to. The
memory column adds up to roughly half that (a little less).
I have about 15mb free real memory available on my system
at the moment, so I don't have memory pressure. If you
have low available physical memory (as shown on the
performance tab), then adding more will be a real boost.
I suspect that Networm may well have fingered it, though.
Check your Commit Charge Total (on the performance page)
against your Commit Charge Limit. If the total is
anywhere close to the limit, your immediate problem is
not enough swap file space. Increasing that will increase
your ability to run apps, though real memory will
certainly affect the apps performance.
BTW, Metastock is notorious for gobbling virutal memory.
If you run Metastock and your Limit is less than 100,000K,
you're essentially hosed from the first chart.
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