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How to find out how much Memory is being used?

Anonymous
2012-01-29T00:59:31+00:00

My computer has just under a gigabyte of memory capacity; how do I find out how much is used up and how much is still available?

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  1. LemP 74,935 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2012-01-29T01:44:15+00:00

    The amount of "memory" (RAM) used changes depending on what is running.  If you open Task Manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and click on the "Performance" tab, the section under "Physical Memory" shows the total amount of RAM installed and how much is available at any given instant (by default, the numbers are updated every 2 seconds).

    For a brief discussion, see http://www.theeldergeek.com/sizing_the_page_file.htm

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-01-29T04:04:33+00:00

    Or you can look at the Disk Defragmenter, it will tell you how much available free space percentage is available.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-01-29T08:26:47+00:00

    Apologies, I confused RAM with memory in the question.

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    No big deal but here we go again...because

    RAM is memory....Random Access Memory.

    Cheers...

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-01-29T16:51:30+00:00

    Thanks LemP. I tried what you said and it told me I have a total RAM of a little over a million; 140,000 available; and a system cache of 220,000. Do these numbers sound right? The interesting thing to me was the CPU usage bar graph: it cycles back and forth between 100%and 0% about every 30 seconds. Is that normal?

    The reason I'm asking is I'm on Amazon.com sometimes, I'm a Prime Member (which means I can downstream their "Instant Videos") and watch them -- thousands of them, they say -- old TV series, movies, and such) but a lot of times when I do it, the video is all choppy and disjointed. The audio portion is usually fine.

    Charter Cable (my ISP) blames the problem on Amazon -- saying they're swamped and their buffering and streaming capabilities are being overpowered (especially at peak times, when everyon's home from work using their computers). Meanwhile, Amazon blames Charter, saying they're not  providing enough signal speed -- but one of Charter's "speed tests" said I was getting 18.5 Mbps of download speed and 3.1 Mbps of upload speed. That's pretty fast, right? So, if they're BOTH telling the truth, then could it be something in my computer, or its memory capacity and usage that I described earlier that could be the problem after all?

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-01-29T05:38:08+00:00

    Or you can look at the Disk Defragmenter, it will tell you how much available free space percentage is available.

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    Defrag shows free space on the hard disk.

    It does not show how much RAM is being used...

    See LemP's post for the correct answer.

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