It is no secret that I absolute love the Windows Sysinternals tools which give you great insight into the operating system. This week another tool was added to the suite which breaks down physical RAM usage, RAMMap:
Have you ever wondered exactly how Windows is assigning physical memory, how much file data is cached in RAM, or how much RAM is used by the kernel and device drivers? RAMMap makes answering those questions easy. RAMMap is an advanced physical memory usage analysis utility for Windows Vista and higher. It presents usage information in different ways on its several different tabs
This tool is very ‘geek’ oriented, but it does give you some information you might find interesting. For example on the File Summary tab, you can see every file which is currently in memory (you may be surprised), whether it is active and the space it is using.
RAMMap only works on Windows Vista/7/2008/+ (sorry, no XP). Again, this is definitely not for everyone but developers and people really into learning about what is going on under the hood may be interested.
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