May 17th, 2002, 03:35 AM
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| What is your mem usage at startup?
I was just wondering what your memory usage was at startup for XP systems. I trimmed mine down about as far as it would go, then installed Office XP (From 2000). After Office XP went in, I noticed that my boot mem usage went up by 10M!? No new services or background tasks are running as a result of Office XP either.
Anyways, at boot I have 15 processes running, and about 78M-80M memory used. It used to be right down within a few hundred K of 70,000K but after I installed Office XP it is now near 80M.
Is this number reasonable or coudl it be lower? I slimmed down my MsConfig as far as I can tolerate, and have killed off as many services as I thought I didn't need.
Ruahrc
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May 17th, 2002, 04:00 AM
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It is normal IMO ...
I have 768MB of RAM .. when winXP Pro starts up it, free memory would be about 610MB  ...
I disabled few services, though .. Programs that start up with XP are few apps and i have office2000 too (but, i deleted it out of the startup menu)...
I know that i can lower that with few tweaks .. so i should start tweaking soon 
Regards
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May 17th, 2002, 07:38 AM
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I have 512MB and show around 95MB used at startup...this is with Win2k and Office 2000 though.....
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May 17th, 2002, 07:56 AM
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256mb ram with 196mb static swap file.
mem usage upon startup is 98MB.
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May 17th, 2002, 08:41 AM
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May 17th, 2002, 09:13 AM
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Commit charge for NT4 trimmed down to 20 MB startup, kernel memory about 9 MB. Office95 installed, but the "Office" part is stripped out. I had to let Pstores.exe run @ startup 'cause Outlook Express lags if it doesn't.
About 14 MB startup for W95B. Resources @ startup 95%.
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May 18th, 2002, 01:06 AM
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Yikes, nicely done BFlurie.
My Win95B system uses about 45MB at startup, but that is with AIM, Eccp109, ZoneAlarm, cachemem, and Aureal's audio control system (just too handy to disable, resource hog or no).
"Commit charge for NT4 trimmed down to 20 MB startup"
What is this? Is it free? 
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May 18th, 2002, 01:07 AM
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My Win2k Pro with 256 MB RAM uses 79 MB at startup. | |
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May 18th, 2002, 01:14 AM
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i usually am using 120-150mb out of 256. i usually have about 20 or so processes runing.
drew
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May 27th, 2002, 04:35 PM
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I did a little work on my services today and reduced my memory usage amount a bit. 
I posted a couple of pages at: http://www.techimo.com/forum/t22850.html
that will help you decide what services you can adjust to improve your memory usage.
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