LiveReport Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 So all I have open is SL, this webpage, and Task Manager.How much RAM do you use?If you are wondering:Windows 7Place: AmbrosiaAvatars on the sim: 70Max number of non imposter avatars: 65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer Boyle Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I have 8 mB. It behaves the same as when I had 5 mB. Added later: I meant 4 mB; the 5 is a typo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveReport Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 look at my pic. if you only had 5GB you would crash tonight. I am using 5.09GB. :matte-motes-yawn: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pussycat Catnap Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 LiveReport wrote: look at my pic. if you only had 5GB you would crash tonight. I am using 5.09GB. :matte-motes-yawn: Me and my 3gb's pretty much almost never crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveReport Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 But do you turn this up? Max number of non imposter avatars: 65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 LiveReport wrote: look at my pic. if you only had 5GB you would crash tonight. I am using 5.09GB. :matte-motes-yawn: Your whole system is using 5GB. I kind of doubt the viewer is using even half that considering it's a 32bit program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveReport Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 I am on Beta 2.8.1 do you think that has anything to do with it? (it almost acts like it is 64 bit sometimes) see it is using both processors almost equal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 The performance tab tells you how much resources are being used for every program running on your machine. Look at the processes tab for info on an individual program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveReport Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 okay here it is: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladi Hazelnut Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I have four gigs of ram. I can run windows in ultra, have gimp open with 10 large textures open, multiple browser pages open, and Blender open all the same time. Never have I ran out of ram. Windows will manage ram and send it to where it needs to go. Tom's hardware did a test once on how much ram the average person needs. I think they tested with 3 gigs, 4 gigs, 6 and 12. There conclusion was that unless you were running a very ram intensive program (which sl is not) most could get away with 3 gigs easily, even for a gaming rig. Upping the ram beyond 4 gigs offered no performance improvement what so ever on any of the games they tested. Even while running multiple programs in the background. I know people on sl that have very high end computers, newest and badest video cards with multiple cards running SLI, raid configured hard drives, 12 gigs of ram, i7 intel processors and over 10 mbps of bandwidth. Yet they crash, some very often. My girlfriend runs on an amd 2.8 dual core with a 9800 GTS+ video card (512 of video ram), 3 gigs of ddr2 and a single 72000 rpm hard drive and we don't have a super fast connection either. She rarely crashes or has a ton of lag. I have an amd 3.0 quad core with 4 gigs of ram and a GTS 250 card (1 gig of vram), an ssd drive for my OS and 7200 rpm sata drive for everything else. I rarely crash, and when I do its becuase sl logs me out or my internet burbs. And that is with all those othe programs running as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Clarence Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 LiveReport wrote: I am on Beta 2.8.1 do you think that has anything to do with it? (it almost acts like it is 64 bit sometimes) see it is using both processors almost equal. Double 32bit is NOT 64bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladi Hazelnut Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Another thing to consider is how Windows manages memory, especially windows 7. Don't expect to see much free memory if any at all. Free memory is wasted memory and windows 7 does its best to use all the memory for something. And with the way memory and virtual memory works you should never run out of memory or crash from not having memory. Unless you have turned virtual memory off for some reason. I have actually disabled it on my system before with 4 gigs of ram and still not ran out memory though. I have ran sl on computers with 512 megs of ram and not crashed from lack of memory. Sl didn't run very well because these comptuers had slow processors and poor video compared to newer ones. But it didn't crash because of lack of memory. And in windows 7 the best way to monitor memeory is with the resource monitor. Give you way more info than the task manager and it has been completely overhauled in windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squashy Beeswing Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 I have 3GB of memory and use Windows Vista. When i run SL, i nearly always have my web browser and my email client open too; sometimes other things as well. I haven't noticed any major problems as regards crashing, etc. All in all, i'm pretty happy with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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