Tom,

It sounds like you are a power user with a need to have a lot of RAM
available for speciality programs (with surface modeling and mapping
routines?).

Most of the RAM management programs will only show the programs executing
and threads running, but do not show which are using how much RAM. Some of
these programs will allow you to automatically free up RAM before a
specific program is executed.

Here are a couple or programs that can to the job of efficiently managing
RAM. These cost money - ($20 to 30 usually) and are downloadable as
shareware to try out.

Release Ram: http://www.acceleratedsoftware.net/
Ram Cleaner: http://www.benutec.com/ramcleaner.htm

And there are many more RAM managers out there but I don't know of a great
one that is freeware.

Good luck

J. Dent


At 07:59 AM 3/31/2004, you wrote:
>I have a homemade PC with 1024 MB RAM, running Windows XP, SP1. While
>starting up Windows with various start up programs, the unused RAM will go
>down to about 730 MB and within a minute of fully being started the unused
>RAM settles down at about 750 MB. After a day or so of use the unused RAM
>is about 650 MB without any further recovery possible. I use FreeRAM XP
>Pro 1.40 to track and automatically recover RAM. I have tried noting the
>unused RAM before and after using programs to determine which programs are
>not releasing (or fully releasing) RAM. This procedure is time consuming
>and not always consistent.
>
>Does anyone know of a program that will indicate which programs are using
>RAM, and how much RAM, even if the programs are not running? I know how to
>find the RAM in use by running programs. It is the programs that are not
>running, but have retained RAM, that I am trying to find. I would like to
>eventually write complaint letters to the producers/owners of the
>offending programs.
>
>Tom Mayer
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