Program that will monitor RAM usage over course of 1 hour

[Elliot B.]

I currently have 4 GB RAM and I'd like to see if my PC would benefit from having 8 GB RAM in real-world scenarios.

Is there a program that will monitor maximum RAM usage after I've ran a few programs?

[+Biscuits Brown MVC]

If you are using Windows 7, the built in monitoring tools (task manager and resource monitor) should give you that data.

[Elliot B.]

  On 18/01/2012 at 01:14, Tempus said:

If you are using Windows 7, the built in monitoring tools (task manager and resource monitor) should give you that data.

The Task Manager graph only shows the past x amount of minutes.

[Max Norris]

Performance Monitor (built in to Windows) will do this. Just add the appropriate counters, tell it how often to sample and for how long. Right-click the graph to edit the sample frequency and scale.

[Elliot B.]

  On 18/01/2012 at 13:10, Max Norris said:

Performance Monitor (built in to Windows) will do this. Just add the appropriate counters, tell it how often to sample and for how long. Right-click the graph to edit the sample frequency and scale.

I just took a look at Performance Monitor. Bit confusing, can I grab a little help? :$

[Max Norris]

  On 18/01/2012 at 17:12, King Mustard said:

I just took a look at Performance Monitor. Bit confusing, can I grab a little help? :$

It's not too bad, trick is finding what you're looking for. When you first start it up, click on "Performance Monitor" on the tree on the left side. That'll bring up a graph that currently only shows CPU time. Right click it, and hit "Add Counters". You'll see a lot of categories, pick whichever counters you want and add them, in your case under "Memory", but browse around for whatever you want to look at. Once you're back at the graph, right click click it again and bring up its properties. On the general tab, you can tell it how often to sample and a duration.. just for example, every 10 seconds over a duration of 3600 seconds. (One hour.) There's a bunch of flexibility like graph type, reporting options and all that.

[Elliot B.]

  On 18/01/2012 at 17:26, Max Norris said:

It's not too bad, trick is finding what you're looking for. When you first start it up, click on "Performance Monitor" on the tree on the left side. That'll bring up a graph that currently only shows CPU time. Right click it, and hit "Add Counters". You'll see a lot of categories, pick whichever counters you want and add them, in your case under "Memory", but browse around for whatever you want to look at. Once you're back at the graph, right click click it again and bring up its properties. On the general tab, you can tell it how often to sample and a duration.. just for example, every 10 seconds over a duration of 3600 seconds. (One hour.) There's a bunch of flexibility like graph type, reporting options and all that.

Many thanks! Legend.