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> From: Kevin > If not task manager, what is the best thing to be looking at? Performance Monitor, looking at per-process figures, filesystem figures and what kernel figures you can see. I accept entirely that this doesn't tell you about free resources on the system, merely consumed resources. Available Memory is dubious at best - the kernel could have allocated additional paged RAM for data structures, and not handed them back because there's no memory pressure on the system, for example; or the filesystem cache could have grown because a file was read into memory and (again) there's no memory pressure on the machine. Modern OSs are lazy - it saves CPU cycles. Give 'em a big machine and they'll allocate all the RAM to subsystems on demand before releasing any, just in case that subsystem needs it again. - Peter