3Gb only using 2gb memory

[Rastalovich]

I bet there`s a utility out there that will show u the whole memory map and what is allocated to what.

Could be interesting. Wonder if SiSandra does something like that.

 

[Deshman]

I just downloaded that, gonna give it a go. Duke, try it too.

 

[Rastalovich]

Not exactly recycling a thread, but I remembered this site, pretty good literal explaination in here:

http://dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm

Shows u the devicemanager way of seeing allocations too.

 

[Deshman]

That's a very nice read but for the most part he doesn't quote any sources or research papers :S

It also doesn't in any way explain why this happens in only limited cases. I've built a few 4GB rigs and have never had the problem of memory mapping reserving physical memory space and actually hiding it from the operating system.