Re: Brand new Vista PC is very slow - disk thrashing due to insufficent memory

"Martin Underwood" <a@b> writes:

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With the PC idle (no apps running) Task Manager is reporting

455 MB total RAM
163 MB cached
0 MB free (this looks VERY ominous!)

That's how things should be. There's no point in having memory
free---there's (almost) always something it could be caching.

So if you ever see significant free memory, why isn't the operating
system caching the last few files it had open?

512M is apparently small by Vista standards ("Windows Vista Capable":
<http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/003769.html>).

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