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Shows the amount of actual RAM (Random Access Memory) in the machine. Displays the amount of physical memory available to applications. Shows the percentage of physical memory that is currently available to applications. Physical Memory shows how much physical memory (RAM) Windows is using. Physical Memory usage will normally remain close to the total amount of physical memory installed on the system unless the amount of physical memory you have exceeds the amount of virtual memory that Windows is using. Windows normally keeps some physical memory available (free) for immediate reuse.
Shows the maximum amount of virtual memory available without expanding the paging file. Shows the current amount of virtual memory available. Shows the percentage of virtual memory that is currently available to applications. Shows the total amount of Virtual Memory available without expanding the paging file, and the current amount of Virtual Memory that is in use.
When a process requests a page that is not currently in its working set, the memory manager will look first in the physical memory of the system. This is called a soft page. If the memory page is not in physical memory, the page will have to be brought from disk. This is called a hard page. This gauge shows the percentage of soft pages versus hard pages. On a system that has a low level of activity, Pages found in RAM will be at or near 100%. Shows the percentage of disk requests that are found in cache memory. Having requests answered from memory instead of disk cuts down on disk activity. A value of over 80% is likely to show an efficient use of system cache.
Represents the rate at which virtual memory pages are written to disk from memory. Virtual memory pages are written to disk when there is not enough physical memory (RAM) available for an application. This forces a dormant application to "swap" some of its used memory to the paging file (disk). Represents the rate at which virtual memory pages are swapped from disk into memory. This occurs when a program that previously had part of its data or application memory "swapped" to disk requires the memory page(s) in RAM again to work on.
Represents the rate of data being written to disk from memory. There is one Disk Writes dataflow for every disk in the Disks panel. You can show either disk writes/second or kilobytes written/second. To change this setting, right-click the flow and select the appropriate option. Represents the rate of data being read from disk to memory. There is one Disk Reads dataflow for every disk in the Disks panel. You can show either disk reads/second or kilobytes read/second. To change this setting, right-click the flow and select the appropriate option. |
Total RAM