mikeymike wrote:Firestarter wrote:Windows 7 aggressively preloads programs (and data? not so sure) into RAM when the disk is idle and there's RAM to spare. In contrast to caching, this can speed up the first time you run a program after a reboot.
Yes, that's very nice, but if it's using RAM then it can be tracked. My point is, I see very similar memory usage on my 4GB system to the 2GB Win7-64 systems I've built. Little or no difference, 100MB at most. Unless you have another way of checking how much is being used by SuperFetch, or some test to show the difference in performance for basic uses of a PC with varying amounts of RAM...
There is, start the Resource Monitor in Windows 7, click the memory tab and have a look see at the bottom left bar graph. The amount 'in use' should be the same as the amount shown in the task manager, but you can also see the 'available', 'cached' and 'standby' amounts, which are roughly equal for me. There's only very little memory actually not being used, just 15MB in my case (3GB installed).