I have a new Xeon Nehalem workstation with 12GB RAM running Windows 7 64-bit Enterprise edition.
No matter how many applications I open, at least according to Task Manager, the machine doesn't seem to ever use more than about 4GB ram. This doesn't make sense because I'm literally opening every application I've got including huge CAD assemblies in Pro/E, Adobe Creative Suite, 4 different browsers, Office, Visual Studio, Matlab, etc.
I never use all these apps at once. The point was to test whether or not my system has some kind of artificial limit set to where it won't use nearly all the RAM it's got. I decided to do this b/c was shocked to look at Task Manager and see only like 3.5GB being used while I had my largest CAD assembly open. So I decided to see what it would take to use up 10GB or something. But it seems like no matter what I do I can never get it to use more than about 4.
Is there some configuration setting I might need to change in order for Windows to take advantage of the full 12GB?
No matter how many applications I open, at least according to Task Manager, the machine doesn't seem to ever use more than about 4GB ram. This doesn't make sense because I'm literally opening every application I've got including huge CAD assemblies in Pro/E, Adobe Creative Suite, 4 different browsers, Office, Visual Studio, Matlab, etc.
I never use all these apps at once. The point was to test whether or not my system has some kind of artificial limit set to where it won't use nearly all the RAM it's got. I decided to do this b/c was shocked to look at Task Manager and see only like 3.5GB being used while I had my largest CAD assembly open. So I decided to see what it would take to use up 10GB or something. But it seems like no matter what I do I can never get it to use more than about 4.
Is there some configuration setting I might need to change in order for Windows to take advantage of the full 12GB?