How much memory do your background applications take?

How much memory does your background applications and services take (when you're not runnin any applications)? You can see this at the bottom right corner of the task manager.

Mine is 312MB

Edited...

 

I think that it all depends on how many windows that you have open.

 

I think he means when you have nothing else open.

 

Almost less 200 MB

JC

 

How do you guys get it so low? How many background processes are running? I've usually got 35.

 

I have ~300M with 58 processes running. Cannot disable anymore as they are all essential.

 

When I startup my notebook, I get 31 processes, but when I waited for couple of minutes, 30.

JC

 

283MB and 36 processes this was taken on my i1150,not i9400.

 

130MB in 99 processes

That's kind of high, I'll have to look into it.

 

???? 99 Processes? 130 MB? Screen shot it.

JC

 

Wow, gnome-terminal and top take about 8 megs, that's pretty bad. Obviously top isn't the offender here.



I've seriously got to get xfce4-svn on Arch set up on this beast, this resource usage is simply unacceptable.

 

About 270 upon load. Optimizable to 230 but really many useful things will be gone.
When I had oly 512 mb RAM Windows used 190 mb memory upon load with the same software configuration. I believe, the more RAM you have, the more Windows will spread comfortably in it.

Ethyriel, I believe we talk about Windows here

 

i have 1.25GB of RAM and windows manages to spread over about 512MB of it most of the time, rising to 800MB with really heavy use

 

1.5gb ram, 400mb use at startup.

I'm happy with that as that includes stylexp, widgets and rainlendar ontop of windows, system processes + a/v & f/w, but don't notice any slowdown on office use. And with tunexp my system boots in less than 30sec

 

Gee, now nobody ever said that

 

Well, if we're talking about the commit charge, it should (more or less) correspond to the total amount of memory applications have allocated. If we're talking about the pagefile usage or physical memory available, that shows how much memory Windows has *reserved* for allocations. (And so, how much is still unreserved and available to anyone who needs it)

I've got 394MB commit charge in 36 processes. That's with all my usual programs running (including Trillian, Wordpad, antivirus, Firefox and a few others)

 

410mb with 61 processes (eek!).

But, I'm also running all my normal programs (FireFox, iTunes, MSN, etc.)

 

200-250, but I do choose to use applications that are 'slim' (IMO)

 

76 Processes, 1000M / 2446M. I really dont think thats what Im supposed to be looking at. Whats the 2446M mean? I only have 1GB of RAM.

 

2446 is the total amount of memory you have, including virtual memory.

 

Or rather, the total amount of virtual memory you have, including physical memory.

 

346 and 47 processes

 

Mine stays at about 300-320MB with about 47 processes. Not terrible, but not great either. I wish I could get my processes down under 40, but when you start adding progrmams and A/V and everything that you need... it goes up fast.

 

Mine takes about 410, but thats running 2 msn messengers and winamp, as both of those are considered 'background' apps to me.

 

On startup, about 175, but after ending automatic updates process, it will be about 160 MB. My laptop also uses integrated graphics, and I have 768 MB physical RAM. On startup, Nod32 is my antivirus, and Spysweeper is my antispyware program.

Under load, that usually means Firefox (eats memory like gas for Hummers), Outlook, AIM, YM, Windows Media Player, it is 300-400 MB. Sometimes I use Opera instead of FF, and sometimes I have ultraedit, word, and some other things running in the background, but no more than 450 MB.

I am pretty strict on memory usage, I don't like apps that take up too much memory. Startup time is also fast, usually less than a minute, that means everything loaded. For a surprise, you're not gonna believe the system specs...

System specs
- Intel Celeron M 330, 1.4 GHz, 512 KB L2 Cache, 400 MHz FSB
- 768 MB DDR SDRAM
- Intel Integrated Extereme graphics (upto 64 MB shared)

Haha, it's a blazing fast system, really I'm not joking...

 

Well, I just checked mine for real. It's actually using about 180MB right now (well, 280 with FF running). It's got 44 processes, but a lot of these come from my A/V. Symantec adds a lot of processes, but the memory usage is pretty low. It's about 8-10 processes, but I'd say it's about 20-30MB of mem. usage. Also, I keep Dell quickset and the synaptics touchpad application running at all times.

My computer takes about a minute and half to fully load up. However, this includes the time it takes for me to enter my BIOS password, select XP from the bootloader, and enter my XP password.

 

185M. 23 processes.

Including Task Manager and Firefox (to type this post).

Don't run more than you need.

 

mine is 320MB with AVG Pro, ZoneAlarm Firewal and yahoo widgets and other basic stuff

 

156 MB / 26 apps after a restart.
edited- after turning off trillian
windows xp home.
Yeah.. my desktop's running on 256 megabytes of ram, and running more smoothly than computers with twice the specs.
=D

 

31 processes
261M / 3422M <--- which one is it?

(btw I have FF with 10+ tabs currently, KIS6, YM on)

I also disabled some useless services in windows xp so that I guess explains why i have a low number of background processes?

 

Oops i voted when I had a ton of stuff open. It's 231Mb not 306.

 

1080mb 80 proc . hmm something is wrong .. wait !!

 

43 procceses 302M while browsing. 2 Gigs of ram.

 

39 proces running including AV and msn and using 276 MB

i think thats acceptable