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Accurate report of memory use?

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J741

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Jul 3, 2001
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How can I get an accurate report of memory use in Windows?

Windows' task manager has a column for 'Mem Usage', but if I add up all of those numbers it is not even close to the reported 'PF Usage' in the 'performance' tab (Which I have always referenced as actual total memory use).

I tried enabling the 'VM Size' tab and It looks more realistic, but I know that it is still inaccurate. As an example my 'Virtual Box' virtual machine software is reported as having a 'VM Size' of only 69.7MB even though the virtual machine inside is assigned 256MB of RAM.

So how do I get some accurate memory usage information?

My memory is not as good as it should be, and neither is my memory.

I have forgotten more than I can remember
 
I think the question really here is which memory...

thread779-1356662 should help a little bit on the matter.
 
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