On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:39:42 -0600, murtibing
wrote:


I had problems with the acer 5920G, it came with 2GB RAM but clearly had
memory problems as it would spend forever swapping data off the disk. I
only ran the obvious stuff. Outlook, Explorer, Word and iTunes. Programs
would hang in midair for up to 15 or more seconds while the processor
was working on something else at 100%, with the Disk flat out and
umpteen page faults. I looked into all sorts of things, being new to
vista I spent ages on the problem. I gave up and bought 4GB of RAM.
After swopping the RAM I checked and it only uses 3GB as I'm running
Home Premium. But WOW that extra 1GB of RAM has made an enormous
difference it now runs "normally".



Glad to hear that the extra RAM improved your performance.

But a word about "it only uses 3GB as I'm running Home Premium." It
has nothing to do with its being Home Premium.

Even though you have a 4GB address space, all 32-bit versions of
Windows can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM. That's because some of
that space is used by hardware and not available to the operating
system and applications. The amount you can use varies, depending on
what hardware you have installed, but is usually around 3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.


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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"Rob" wrote:


Thanks - that is really helpful as the 5920 is still suffering - MSN seems
to be the worst culprit. I may well try the extra RAM.

Actually I should have said the main culprit is Windows Live Messenger, I
was beiny lazy when I said MSN. I don't suppose anyone knows if there is a
known problem with Messenger using too much virtual memory on Vista?

Ken Blake, MVP;636056 Wrote:
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:39:42 -0600, murtibing
wrote:


I had problems with the acer 5920G, it came with 2GB RAM but clearly
had
memory problems as it would spend forever swapping data off the disk.
I
only ran the obvious stuff. Outlook, Explorer, Word and iTunes.
Programs
would hang in midair for up to 15 or more seconds while the processor
was working on something else at 100%, with the Disk flat out and
umpteen page faults. I looked into all sorts of things, being new to
vista I spent ages on the problem. I gave up and bought 4GB of RAM.
After swopping the RAM I checked and it only uses 3GB as I'm running
Home Premium. But WOW that extra 1GB of RAM has made an enormous
difference it now runs "normally".



Glad to hear that the extra RAM improved your performance.

But a word about "it only uses 3GB as I'm running Home Premium." It
has nothing to do with its being Home Premium.

Even though you have a 4GB address space, all 32-bit versions of
Windows can only use *around* 3.1GB of RAM. That's because some of
that space is used by hardware and not available to the operating
system and applications. The amount you can use varies, depending on
what hardware you have installed, but is usually around 3.1GB.

Note that the hardware is using the address *space*, not the actual
RAM itself. The rest of the RAM goes unused because there is no
address space to map it too.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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i have a dell xps m1530 with 8 gig ram and 500gig, 5200 hd and a core2
duo processor
ive also been getting this error after ariving back from standby..
so what youre saying is even if i have 8 gig ram it still doesnt
matter, ill still get the error?
is there a way to allocate windows vista x64 home premium to find the
additional memory or is it just wasted memory?


--
buck paradis