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From: Bjorn S. on 24 May 2010 14:12
Duddits wrote in <pj0lv5dpirbt624b9r9esjcec8qbl35lc1(a)4ax.com>
(Mon, 24 May 2010 09:47:05 -0400):

>>I like/use
>Desktop Info
>Windows: 2000/XP/Vista/2003/2008/Win7
>This little application displays system information on your desktop in
>a similar way to some other desktop information tools. Unlike others,
>this application looks like wallpaper but stays resident in memory and
>continues to update the display in real time. Uses very little memory
>and nearly zero cpu. Perfect for quick identification and walk-by
>monitoring of production or test server farms. Everything is
>customisable including language.
>http://www.glenn.delahoy.com/software/

Thanks - but on my Win 7 Home Premium this produced a "Range check
error", opening a new error-report-window each second, so I had to
kill the process/program via task man. Either that or keep clicking
the OK button of each new error-report-window really fast - and
ad infinitum :)

--
All the best,
Bjorn S.
- I only post via <news.individual.net>.
From: Shadow on 24 May 2010 15:58
On Mon, 24 May 2010 07:17:25 -0400, Art <null(a)zilch.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 24 May 2010 01:54:20 -0500, "jim.s.witherspoon"
><jim.s.witherspoon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm wondering what utilities will show the current pagefile usage in
>>Windows.

>Memuse is very light weight:
>http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/MemUse.shtml
>
>It shows pagefile info as "virtual" and RAM as "physical". I checked
>it as using about 2 meg RAM when it's active.
>
>Art
Amazingly small footprint, and written in freebasic ...
Thanks for the link
[]'s
From: jim.s.witherspoon on 24 May 2010 23:03
Hi again,

I tried MemUse, MemInfo, and Desktop Info - they are reporting something
different from XP_PageFileMon and System Information for Windows.

If I understand it correctly - XP_PageFileMon and SIW show how much
code/data has actually been paged out from RAM to the page file. This is
good info because code/data is paged out only when there's no longer any
room in physical RAM. This is when system performance starts to be
affected, and excessive paging out to the pagefile indicates you should
close down some programs, or install more RAM.

But Windows Task Manager, MemUse, MemInfo, and Desktop Info mean something
else by "Page File in Use". In these programs "Page File in Use" means the
amount of memory requested by programs that could be paged out to the
pagefile if required. It doesn't mean how much code/data has actually been
paged out to the pagefile.

Thus, on my desktop computer - MemUse shows 2907K of "used virtual memory";
MemInfo shows 2802K of page file used (reporting the same thing at
different times). XP_PageFileMon, on the other hand, shows current
pagefile usage at 664MB.

On my netbook - MemUse reports 933 used virtual memory, MemInfo reports
885MB page file used. But XP_PageFileMon reports 146MB current pagefile
usage. SIW reports 145MB pagefile in use. Measuring different things.

Good explanations can be found here:

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php

http://blogs.technet.com/b/perfguru/archive/2008/01/08/explanation-of-pagefile-usage-as-reported-in-the-task-manager.aspx

So anyway I am just wondering if there are other programs that show actual
(not potential) page file usage other than XP_PageFileMon and SIW.

hope this helps.

jim
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