Weird RAM behaviour.

[MIDI_EVIL]

Ok so my RAM is behaving weirdly.

I have 1.5 GB of the stuff, and sometimes, when i've got 2-3 torrents running, or i'm scanning something in high-res (2400DPI), or I have 3 pages of safari open for a while with iTunes, the usage is through the roof. Sometimes I have as little as 13mb of RAM spare.

When I reset my disk permissions, I get it all back straight away!

Is this a harddrive writing in/out issue?

I'm trying to understand what could be the problem?

My HD is running at 5400 rpm, is this the bottleneck causing my RAM to be annihilated?

Why am I getting it all back with a disk permission repair?

 

[sbluetruck]

Ok so my RAM is behaving weirdly.

I have 1.5 GB of the stuff, and sometimes, when i've got 2-3 torrents running, or i'm scanning something in high-res (2400DPI), or I have 3 pages of safari open for a while with iTunes, the usage is through the roof. Sometimes I have as little as 13mb of RAM spare.

When I reset my disk permissions, I get it all back straight away!

Is this a harddrive writing in/out issue?

I'm trying to understand what could be the problem?

My HD is running at 5400 rpm, is this the bottleneck causing my RAM to be annihilated?

Why am I getting it all back with a disk permission repair?

well.... that's a lot of stuff running at once.....
you really think it's the RAM behaving "weird" or don't you think you're pushing your RAM limit???

my PC with 1.25 GB RAM sometimes acts up when i've got iTunes running and i'm surfing the web.

hi res= resources


it might just be that you simply don't have enough RAM to accomplish your task...

 

[MIDI_EVIL]

well.... that's a lot of stuff running at once.....
you really think it's the RAM behaving "weird" or don't you think you're pushing your RAM limit???

my PC with 1.25 GB RAM sometimes acts up when i've got iTunes running and i'm surfing the web.

hi res= resources


it might just be that you simply don't have enough RAM to accomplish your task...

Not all of those tasks are done simultaneously.

I just wanted to know why the RAM is returned to me when I verify my disk permissions.

 

[sbluetruck]

when you verify disk permissions, are you still running those programs.


i know you implied that they weren't all running at once... if they were, well, you've got one heck of a computer!!!!