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Old 03-05-2011, 12:19 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by SebC View Post
Question about RAM:

Which is the Memory column to monitor in Windows7? Commit Size? My "physicial memory" use regularly goes over 4 GB (with 8 GB installed)... is that just because programs use more if it's available? How do I know how much RAM I actually need?
As long as you never need to swap out to disk, you have enough RAM.

Page faults/sec can be one indication of excessive swapping.

edit: I guess I should mention that you can track page faults in your performance monitor
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