Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/10/29/01:45:19
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 08:24:57 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
>On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> >Which graph, exactly, did you choose for SysMon to display? I don't
>> >see any ``memory in use'' anywhere on my Windows 98 system.
>>
>> Memory Manager: allocated memory
>
>Try "Free Physical Memory" (or thereabouts) instead,
>and watch how it changes
Found "Unused physical memory".
>when you, e.g., compile a large program.
34 KB of C source plus Allegro headers large enough?
Anyway, I tried it (through make), and it dipped about 3 or 4 MB and
rose back. The "allocated" chart had a 4 MB high peak also.
>AFAIK, allocated memory is simply the largest sum of all memory demands
>Windows ever needed to satisfy during this session
Not necessarily. It tracks the total allocated memory at any given
moment. For example, when I close Outlook Express, it decreases by
30 MB.
>and it includes VM. So it's not very interesting, since the Windows
>swap file grows
And shrinks. I also have "swapfile size" open, and it seems to track
"allocated memory" pretty closely (lagging a bit but catching up when
Windows compacts the swap file a minute later).
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