Solved Reported Physical Mem in Task Mgr

[Manigue]

Just wondering why the reported Physical Memory in the Task Manager drops to 14%, after an hour or so, from 28% when initially starting the system. Processes drop from 49 to 46. Mainly Trustedinstaller and winupdate processes.

I know some applications check for updates upon boot, but I kind of disabled most (if not all) of them except Vista updates.

Also one of the many svchost.exe starts off with a reported Commit Size of 177K and later is down to 155K.

This of course is not a problem. Just Vista64 curious!

 

[Brink]

Hello Manigue,

This is just the percentage of free memory that you have. As you use Vista, Superfetch will fill your memory with data it thinks you will need to help your computer run faster. This data will stay in memory until something else replaces it or needs the space it is using. It's normal.

Shawn

 

[Manigue]

Thanks Brink. It's always good to know the reason of these little things about your OS.

 

[Brink]

You're welcome. I love figuring out the little things myself to.