Application to report RAM Usage?

We are thinking of having an application run in the background to
prompt User once their RAM has max'ed out and their computer is paging
to the hard drive. Or maybe prompt them once 80% of the RAM is being
used so they are aware and can start thinking about a good time to shut
down SolidWorks and restart.

I saw a post one time that someone had written an application that
would pop up a dialog box once a certain amout of RAM useage was
reached, but I have been unable to find that post again? Does anyone
remember what thread that was in?

Thanks,
Ken

 

It is built into Windows. Look for Performance Monitor. It will record
ram usage and then you can play it back. Since you have no direct
control over memory usage why would you want user's to see this as they
are working?

Other than that why not look at TUCOWS?

 

You could try this : http://www.gena01.com/memuse/

Pascal

 

We have a lot of Users that just keep right on designing once they're
into the paging file and even up to the ~1.3GB range where they will
crash. What I was looking for was something to run silently in the
background, then only pop up once a certain threshold of RAM usage has
been reached. This is meant to be an early warning, something along the
lines of "Your available RAM is getting low. Save and close SolidWorks
before you crash." I am more interested in popping up a warning message
then asking them to actually manually monitor the usage.

Ken

 

To avoid the crashing use the 3gb switch and adjust your paging files
accordingly. Then you can get up to 2.6Gb. If exceeding RAM happens
often then you can probably buy more RAM cheaper than you can have your
guys sitting around waiting.

I would advise monitoring them with Perfmon and using the results to
justify getting more RAM.

For example:
http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_attrib.php?page_id=43&form_keyword=dual+channel+2gb&rd=1&skd=1
$189 for 2GB.

 

If they aren't taking any notice of the performance hit that must result
when the system starts to use a page file, then I'm not sure they will pay
attention to a pop-window either.....

John Harland

 

On my old system I used a programme called Cacheman, mainly to work with
large PhotoWorks projects.

It attempts to recover RAM when the the free RAM is below a certain user
defined point, a pop up window informs you that free RAM is below this
predefined point before it attempts the recovery.

There is a free version of the software, which is what I used. It has saved
me many a crash to desktop when working with PhotoWorks.

www.outertech.com

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

FreeRAM Xp Pro

 

SW does not use paging files. your max 2.6GB is all you can get from
Windows 32bit [per application] no matter how much RAM you have
installed