Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task Manager and click the Performance
Tab. Under Commit Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?
The Total is the memory currently being used , the Peak is what it has
been and the Limit is the amount available i.e RAM and pagefile. Given
that the Total and the Peak are less than the RAM it is likely
that the system is only making nominal use of the slower pagefile.
You can do a better check on pagefile usage using pagefilemon.
Use page file monitor to observe what is the peak usage. Start it to run
immediately after start-up and look at the log. Pagefilemon takes
snapshots. You need to run it at the beginning of the session at then
run it again at intervals throughout the sessions. The log is Pagefile
log.txt. If you right click on the file in Windows Explorer and select
Send to, Desktop (Create Shortcut). The same applies to
XP_PageFileMon.exe.
A small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm
Note that programs using undo features, particularly those associated
with graphics and photo editing, require large amounts of memory so if
you use this type of programme check these first observing how the page
usage increases when they start and whether the usage decreases when you
close the programme.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Pradip wrote:
> I just upgraded to full 4GB memory in my machine. After bootup the
> system finds 3.3 GB, and I understand what is happening here. With
> very little else running, I have 2.4 GB physical RAM available.
> However, the pagefile (commit charge) is still 780 MB. Wondering why
> windows is leaving the physical memory available and using pagefile
> instead? Please enlighten. Thanks.
>
> Pradip