powers Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 OK, this may be a stupid question, but I have to ask. I could have sworn that I read on either here or the knowledge base that retrospect was limited to using only 1 GB of physical RAM and the rest would be virtual memory. I've never seen the peak memory usage go much over 1 GB in windows task manager... Is there any truth to this, or was I just smoking something? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 That is not true. Retrospect is a 32 bit application and can use upwards of 2GB of RAM or more. It will cache memory to hard disk if more is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerX Posted May 1, 2009 Report Share Posted May 1, 2009 Robin, When speaking to support on the phone I was told that Retrospect would use a certain percentage of memory. I recall 30%, but I am probably wrong. Would you let us know, for the record, how Retrospect decided how much memory and CPU to limit itself to? I would also appreciate knowing if these limits can be overridden. Thanks, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 2, 2009 Report Share Posted May 2, 2009 Retrospect is a 32 bit program and can't use more then 2 GB of physical RAM, but that does not mean your computer should only have 2 GB. You need additional RAM for the OS. A 4GB RAM computer will run well. You also need 10 to 15 GB of free disk space on the C: drive for each execution you are running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powers Posted May 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Retrospect is a 32 bit program and can't use more then 2 GB of physical RAM, but that does not mean your computer should only have 2 GB. You need additional RAM for the OS. A 4GB RAM computer will run well. You also need 10 to 15 GB of free disk space on the C: drive for each execution you are running. When you say C: drive, do you really mean whatever drive we installed retrospect on? Or is it hard programmed to use some folder on C:? Also, what might retrospect be writing to the C: that would take up to 15 GB per execution? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 4, 2009 Report Share Posted May 4, 2009 Temporary memory caching is written to the default windows temp directory, which is almost always on the C: disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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