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Author Topic: FARR Hogging RAM?  (Read 3767 times)

siouxdax

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FARR Hogging RAM?
« on: September 07, 2009, 08:48 AM »
Hello all:
I just noticed that FARR is running with more RAM than usual. It's showing that the virtual size is 103,000K and the working set is at 25,000K. I should mention that I only use that terminology (virtual size, working set) because that's what Process Explorer shows, so throwing more five dollar tech words won't mean much to me. LOL. I do, however, understand (for the most part) what those two numbers mean.

At any rate, is this normal or is something a bit wonky? As usual, any help or suggestions are very much appreciated!
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Re: FARR Hogging RAM?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2009, 10:26 AM »
That sounds pretty normal - after just booting my system and doing a FARR search, I've got Virtual Size of 138MB and Working Set of 22MB. The figures in ProcExp you should be most interested in are the "private parts" (:-[), since that's the "meat" of the memory allocations.
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Re: FARR Hogging RAM?
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2009, 11:31 PM »
procexp shows almost the same figures on my pc. but i always believed in giving Farr copious amounts of memory. :)

Process Explorer Screenshot - 08_09_2009.png


however if you want to reduce the memory usage, you can go to Options > General and change the "Inactive Memory Usage" settings.

FindAndRunRobot.exe Screenshot - 08_09_2009.png

siouxdax

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Re: FARR Hogging RAM?
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2009, 09:49 AM »
lanux128:
Thanks for pointing out that option. Much appreciated!
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