
If you want to examine the activity on a particular graph before it scrolls out of view, pull down the Monitor menu and select the Stop Monitoring command. These graphs display a minute's worth of activity and run continuously. The Hard Faults/Sec graph shows spikes of activity that represent the occurrence of hard faults. This includes the amount of physical memory that is in use as well as any pages that have been saved in the page file. The Commit Charge graph shows how much virtual memory is in use. The Used Physical Memory graph shows a percentage value that represents how much physical memory is in use. On the right side of Resource Monitor's Memory tab you'll see three graphs: Used Physical Memory, Commit Charge, and Hard Faults/Sec.
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Figure A The Memory tab shows detailed information about Windows 10's memory use. In the Resource Monitor user interface, select the Memory tab, as shown in Figure A. To get started with Resource Monitor, press Windows +R, type Resmon.exe in the Open text box, and press Enter. Using this virtual memory system enables the OS to allocate fixed-length blocks of memory (pages) that are contiguous in both physical memory addressing and virtual memory addressing. That will make the information displayed on the Memory tab easier to sort out.īasically, Windows 10's memory manager creates a virtual memory system consisting of available physical memory and a page file system on the hard disk. Let's quickly review memory management in Windows 10.
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SEE: 10 quick tips to make Windows 10 work the way you want Memory overview As I've been doing so, I've discovered some valuable information that I'm sure you could put to use on your Windows 10 systems.

So much so, that I've also been using Resource Monitor to track the memory usage on several of my Windows 10 systems. And I've rediscovered how powerful this tool can be. The thing is that using this old laptop with its limited memory has sparked my interest in investigating memory usage on the Memory tab of Resource Monitor.

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