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Posted by jonathanh [MSFT] on May 16, 2005, 10:34 pm
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Virtual memory size tells you how much memory the process would occupy *if*
it all had to be present in RAM at once. But MSN DS has been coded so that
its working set - the portion of the process that is always present in RAM -
is a lot lower than its VM size. Use the "Memory Usage" column in task
manager to see the working sets of every process on your system.
For example, on this laptop WindowsSearchIndexer has a VM Size of 66 MB, but
a memory usage of only 8 MB. It's the second figure that will have far more
of an impact on your everyday computing experience.
Joel Moore wrote:
>
> > my overall view is that this is very impressive, certainly an
> > improvement over past beta versions.
> >
> > My only concern is the memory footprint. It seems that
> > 'windowssearchindexer.exe' takes up around 55MB of memory for quite a
> > lot of the time. It just seems a lot 'heavier' than previous
> > versions.
> >
> > Is anybody else experiencing this?
>
> Yes. Mine's taking up 67 MB of virtual memory. Seems excessive.
>
> I'm just trying out MSN DS after using Google's DS for a while now. For
> the most part MS seems like a better product but I can't afford to
> sacrifice this much memory.
>
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