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Report: Most Windows 7 PCs Max Out RAM, Choke


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sounds bs. it's just prefetching. overall my ram usage hasn't been very high and apps always get full priority when starting to use and aren't missing ram.

better than idling. 7 ftw so far

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I've got 2 GB of RAM and all it ever uses with normal usage is 1, if I do some image editing/gaming/video playback it becomes a little higher, but overall, can't say it's using too much RAM.

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946 MB: Windows 7, Firefox, WLM, WMP(video).

I mean yeah, it's a lot more than XP, but as long as performance doesn't suffer you don't hear me crying.

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But isn't it like this:

When u have don't have a lot of ram.. The system will automaticly disable stuff?

Well, I don't see anything -.-

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As long as I know, Windows is designed the way that if RAM is available, it will take it, no matter how much you have. And sometimes it will harm if taking too much RAM. That's why it's important that you don't overRAM your computer. ;)

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The authors of that "report" obviously don't understand how the advanced memory management of W7 works. Unused ram is wasted ram. W7 is just caching free ram to optimize performance. If more ram is ever needed by an app, it is instantly released from cached ram and made available to the app that needs it. Hence there are no problems and don't be alarmed by the apparent high memory usage of W7.

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Well, this never happened to me. Really strange report.

Cheers ;)

Very strange indeed. It's a fake the whole thing.

The person responsible for the report has been disassociated from InfoWorld after this.

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