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Using windows 7 64bit RC and it's my first experience with a 64bit OS. Memory consumption seems a little extreme. Fresh boot with Avast and Nvidia drivers installed, as well as what 7 runs by default, and I'm looking at 1GB ram usage out of 4GB.

That seems extreme to me, and it's certainly more ram than the 32bit open beta used when I had that installed, when I only had 2GB.

Is it extreme, or perfectly normal?

What's your RAM usage (32bit or 64bit)?

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With 8GB on Vista x64 I'd run at about 1.48 GB used, with 7 x64 I'm at 1.18 GB used. This is with the same services and startup software running.

It's perfectly normal, there is more memory available to windows and so it uses it :) If an application wants more than the 3GB Windows has left for you, Windows will free some up. OS's are clever these days!

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Ah ok thanks, that makes sense. I just had to check as it seemed a lot and it's my first foray into 64bit OS's :)

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Using windows 7 64bit RC and it's my first experience with a 64bit OS. Memory consumption seems a little extreme. Fresh boot with Avast and Nvidia drivers installed, as well as what 7 runs by default, and I'm looking at 1GB ram usage out of 4GB.

That seems extreme to me, and it's certainly more ram than the 32bit open beta used when I had that installed, when I only had 2GB.

Is it extreme, or perfectly normal?

What's your RAM usage (32bit or 64bit)?

That's extreme indeed :blink:

This is not Vista with its excessive memory hunger anymore.

Looks like you have something especially memory hungry installed - I'd say it's the nVidia drivers :pinch:

With everything installed on x64 (including Outpost Security Suite and Catalyst Control Centre), it looks like this for me:

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I guess no one knows about how OS uses memory. It's called SuperFetch. It stores what you use in memory in case you want to use it so it loads it faster.

It is my first 64bit OS too and I have 4GB with 1.24 GB used but that doesn't mean 1.24 GB "Phyical" memory. Anyway if you need more memory, Windows will manage it for you by clearing old "used" programs out of memory under the bonnet.

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I guess no one knows about how OS uses memory. It's called SuperFetch. It stores what you use in memory in case you want to use it so it loads it faster.

It is my first 64bit OS too and I have 4GB with 1.24 GB used but that doesn't mean 1.24 GB "Phyical" memory. Anyway if you need more memory, Windows will manage it for you by clearing old "used" programs out of memory under the bonnet.

I thought superfetch usage is what's listed under "cached" in the memory section of the performance tab, in task manager?

That's extreme indeed :blink:

This is not Vista with its excessive memory hunger anymore.

Looks like you have something especially memory hungry installed - I'd say it's the nVidia drivers :pinch:

With everything installed on x64 (including Outpost Security Suite and Catalyst Control Centre), it looks like this for me:

Damnit now I'm scratching my head again :p

Must be the Nvidia drivers then, as my better-halfs desktop has around the same memory usage (running the same OS). Might uninstall them and use the ones from Windows Update, see if it makes any difference.

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I thought superfetch usage is what's listed under "cached" in the memory section of the performance tab, in task manager?

It does, but it also is calculated as part of your total memory usage.

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