Just bring up the task manager and watch it. You can get there either by right-clicking in the task bar or typing CTRL-ALT-DELETE (in XP and Vista ONLY!) and clicking on the task manager button. Click on the Processes tab and find PowerSDR. Just watch it over time.
73 Neal k3nc On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Lux, James P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 10/10/08 8:01 AM, "Neal Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> With 4GB installed on a computer, you are losing 800 MB of memory, >> which means you get 200mb more memory than a 3 GB configuration which, >> given the cost of memory, is okay with me. I honestly think that x64 >> (as a reason to access more memory) is only a real advantage when you >> get over 5GB *(6gb is where I have drawn the line at my shack). >> >> The thing most people need to understand is that Windows (XP as well >> as Vista) divides the memory in half, and gives one half for "system >> usage" and the other half for your programs. So if you have 2 GB, that >> means 1GB goes to Windows, 1GB goes to your programs. So if you have >> system usage that needs more than 1gb, its going to start hitting the >> page file regardless of whether you have any programs running at all. >> So just keep in mind that your PowerSDR and your other programs only >> gets half of the memory that you install. >> > > Bringing up the interesting question, just what IS the memory footprint of > PowerSDR? I can't see it being all that huge.. Not like you're holding 20 > minutes of video frames in memory or something. Sure, you're going to bring > in a raft of libraries for the UI, etc., but again, a megabyte is a LOT of > instructions. > > > -- Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at www.abrohamnealsoftware.com - $15.99 ------------------------------------------------- For a great dog book, visit www.abrohamneal.com ------------------------------------------------- See the FlexRadio Systems Flex-5000a in action at www.flex-videos.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
