RAM = Overrated

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:16 am

did you see what programs were using what parts of the RAM? Windows has a nasty habbit of grabbing ram when it really doesn't need it. Many programs allocate RAM when they aren't usign it as a reserve just in case you need it later. Also, windows caches programs in ram that you've opened and closed them just in case you will run them again. To really do this test you need to only have the minimal amount of programs open. Close all system tray stuff and whatnot and see what utilization is at idle. Then render and see what happens.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:22 pm

mckeed wrote:did you see what programs were using what parts of the RAM? Windows has a nasty habbit of grabbing ram when it really doesn't need it. Many programs allocate RAM when they aren't usign it as a reserve just in case you need it later. Also, windows caches programs in ram that you've opened and closed them just in case you will run them again. To really do this test you need to only have the minimal amount of programs open. Close all system tray stuff and whatnot and see what utilization is at idle. Then render and see what happens.

i know that already =P but b4 i start on a video i usueally have it just restarted or turned on unless i go to do something small

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:23 pm

I checked my task manager and i was about 75% as well. I think certain programs just grab a certain percentage of ram at the get go rather than a set ammount. To really know what is going on you'd have to run perfmon and see how many pages to disk are going on. That would tell you if you were swaping alot which would tell you that you need more RAM.

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:56 pm

mckeed wrote:I checked my task manager and i was about 75% as well. I think certain programs just grab a certain percentage of ram at the get go rather than a set ammount. To really know what is going on you'd have to run perfmon and see how many pages to disk are going on. That would tell you if you were swaping alot which would tell you that you need more RAM.

Some days, I suspect Windows defaults to 50%.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:40 pm

hmm, when my computer loads, and i have everything loaded that i would load, not including video editing stuff, im usueally in the 23-28% range which would turn to be like 500mb and half of 1gb...

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:12 am

I would like to point out that usually RAM & HDD are not the bottleneck in the system but that Adobe is usually an inefficient POS.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:12 am

I meant Adobe Software...

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