Re: Would adding more RAM to my current rig improve the speed and overall performance?
- From: No Way <no@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:32:20 GMT
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 05:32:07 -0000, "John Weiss"
<jrweiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"No Way" <no@xxxxxxx> wrote...
Open Task Manager, Performance Tab. Bottom left, Commit Charge, Peak
CPU: Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: Kingston PC2-5300 CL5 2GB RAM
value. If it never goes over 2Gb you do not need more memory!
Mike.
I've been keeping an eye on the Peak value under Commit Charge and it
seems that it's fixed on 613532 and never changes at all, no matter
whether I'm using the computer to unrar 70 100MB RAR files, error
checking another set of 100MB RAR files using QuickPAR, and converting
an MKV file to WMV all at the same time or when I just simply have my
browser open.
Is this normal?
Sorry, it seems that when I reboot my computer and bring up the Task
Manager, the Peak value shows as being 182396, then after some using
the computer described above, the peak value goes to 613532. Thanks.
If you do the same thing repeatedly, the RAM usage peak will be the same.
Using around 600 MB peak is probably "normal" under the circumstances. If
each RAR is 100 MB, peak RAM usage might be 300 MB for the unRAR process.
Then there's normal system overhead and your other running apps.
Commit Charge is total of physical RAM and pagefile usage. If your Physical
Memory usage doesn't approach the 2 GB you have, adding more won't likely
help.
I just found that my laptop with 512 MB was using almost all of that with
little "real" usage. When I increased the RAM to 1.5 GB, Physical Memory
usage went to around 600 MB with just overhead (including a distributed
computing app running as a service), browser, and e-mail running. The
system "feels" significantly faster.
Though your system might be able to use 4 GB between the 2 cores, I doubt
you are stressing it enough to require it.
Yeah, I'm beginning to suspect that more and more as I'm keeping my
eye on the system usage stats. I think the reason my system does slow
down is my CPU's just not powerful enough.
The unRAR'ing and QuickPAR'ing processes are pure CPU cycle usage
tasks. Thanks again.
.
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