When i originally installed vista on my system i had 2GB of RAM in there, when my system booted i noticed it would use about 450MB of RAM when it started, i installed another 512MB this saturday and when my system starts now it use's 850MB! It's like Vista knows and uses more RAM for system services etc depending on how much you have installed. Anyone else noticed this with there systems?
Yes. It's a good thing and there's quite a bit of info on the net about how Vista manages resources better than XP.
Yep, Vista appears to scale its hardware usage with available hardware. For instance my media centre which is running vista has just 1GB of ram, at boot Vista + MCE uses no more than ~500MB of ram, my system however has 3GB of ram and Vista will happily chew its way into nearly 1GB of it, which is fine by me, I buy ram for it to be used. So in short; what you are seeing is perfectly normal, don't worry
I assumed it was eating more RAM depending on how much you have installed. I guess it's a good thing, Vista just scales its services and operations down depending on the ammount of resource's you system has. Good thinking Redmond!
Wonder where they get these ideas from /looks to 30 year old unix platforms... didn't take them long to catch up
