Elliot B. Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +Biscuits Brown MVC Posted January 18, 2012 MVC Share Posted January 18, 2012 If you are using Windows 7, the built in monitoring tools (task manager and resource monitor) should give you that data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elliot B. Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elliot B. Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 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? :$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Max Norris Posted January 18, 2012 Share Posted January 18, 2012 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. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Elliot B. Posted January 18, 2012 Author Share Posted January 18, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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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?
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