86% of Windows 7 PCs Maxing Out Memory

CWmike writes "Citing data from Devil Mountain Software's community-based Exo.performance.network (XPnet), Craig Barth, the company's chief technology officer, said that new metrics reveal an unsettling trend. On average, 86% of Windows 7 machines in the XPnet pool are regularly consuming 90%-95% of their available RAM, resulting in slow-downs as the systems were forced to increasingly turn to disk-based virtual memory to handle tasks. The 86% mark for Windows 7 is more than twice the average number of Windows XP machines that run at the memory 'saturation' point, and this comes despite more RAM being available on most Windows 7 machines. 'This is alarming,' Barth said of Windows 7 machines' resource consumption. 'For the OS to be pushing the hardware limits this quickly is amazing. Windows 7 is not the lean, mean version of Vista that you may think it is.'"

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Re:When do people get this

[fast turtle]

If the idiots are looking at pagefile usage then I know they couldn't find their asses with a clue stick, map and a guide. On my system, my pagefile is constantly at 99 percent consumption because

1. it's a dedicated partition
2. it's set to the max size of the partition

According to Task Manager, I'm using just over 4GB of my 8GB of system ram (Win7-64) ad that's with Supreme Commander paused, uTorrent running, Word 2007, One Note and Outlook Open plus 30 tabs in Chrome.

ALL of this makes me wonder what their game is because none of it impacts me. I've yet to see my system hit the page file and I've been using WIn7 since the RC was released (now upgraded).