After seeing this thread, I thought it would be interesting to collect some actual sample data from our users about Rainmeter's resource usage.
The poll above allows you to select 2 options, so pick the range of RAM and CPU that matches Rainmeter as it's running for you. To find out how much this is, press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and find "Rainmeter.exe" in the Processes tab. If you can provide it, a screenshot would be great, too, so we can see just what is using all those bits and cycles.
For me, the following setup (just the bar at the bottom, grand total of five skins) is using 11 megabytes of memory, and a maximum of 3% CPU (out of a 1.7GHz processor).
when iTunes is not playing cpu is 0-2 mostly 0, and ram at 12-14. when iTunes is playing cpu is at 0-3 and ram at 16-18. I have an iTunes config open.
long ado i use konfabulator, now yahoo widget engine, witch was a memory hog, every widget was eating cpu and ram, you have 5 widgets it is 5*cpu and 5*ram, plus the program itself soooo
rainmeter is not even close a memory hog, i drink for that
Zero at programing, zero at writing codes, so far 2 at making images But I'm good at copy/paste, and I not always like this
The CPU-usage is registerd as 0% for me... So... heh.. I'm on a Intel quad-core Q8200 2.33GHz.
Using 9k-10k of RAM. And I assume that it's sopposed to be a "K" after all the options with RAM in the poll. ;)
This is my desk so... It's not all the much I got. But get's the job done. ^^
Chewtoy wrote:Using 9k-10k of RAM. And I assume that it's sopposed to be a "K" after all the options with RAM in the poll. ;)
You must be misreading your task manager... Rainmeter uses at least 4-5 M even without a single skin loaded. I don't even have processes under 200k, and that's stuff like Google Crash Handler...
Kaelri wrote:
You must be misreading your task manager... Rainmeter uses at least 4-5 M even without a single skin loaded. I don't even have processes under 200k, and that's stuff like Google Crash Handler...
...Indeed. You are correct. "9 978 K" be the writing. ==~10M. Stupid misstake. -.-'
But. I would still assume that we are not talking "15" but indeed "15M".