Increased incidence of crashing problems

[gusmus]

OK Bob, I'm doing this on the fly. I have IE open, Outlook running and I have 84% of my system resources free + 248megas of ram free out of 382 megas,
Enter KM:my system resources have dropped to 54% free and my free ram has dropped to 195 megas,, that means that i have used 53 megas to run the program.
Loading movie/fun file leybol2/index.fun 302Kb
system resources 52% FREE RAM 148 megas. So it confirms my old numbers on the celeron,, CPU usage is about 45% and Ram usage is about 90 megas on a basic Celeron 1300mhz with 382mb ram and NO overclocking,, seems to me that I have plenty in reserve.

Now for MM Flash mx: same basic setup with IE and Outlook running.
Oh dear, Oh dear. Just started Flash MX and my system resources are now at 43% but my ram usage is now at about 270 megas and I haven't even loaded a file yet, wonder what I can do with my spare 118 megas???
loading a small .fla 25kb
FLA loaded and it only sucked up another 10 megas,, let's try it with a SWF 234Kb (swf equivelent of the leybol2 fun file)
memory went ziippppp, all the way to the botton until the virtual memory kicked in and now I have 119 mb free but the comp is suffering,, you can tell by the jerky mouse.
Seems to me that Flash MX is a real hog when it comes to memory,, but the cpu usage stayed steady all the way through.

Photoshops turn
Memory dropped to about 65 megas free before the Virtual memory kicked in and that was just loading the program, I now have104 megas free(thanks to virtual memory)
system resources are at 54% (not bad)
Going to load a 350kb JPEG now
That was fun,, cpu usage was stable at about 53/54% but the ram dropped to 95 free when it was loading and then recovered to 126 mb free after it finished loading.

CPU resources were reset between each test.
Ram was defragged after each test.

Well there you go,, hope it helps.
I used the celeron 1300 because I thought it was probably the closest to an average KM user machine.. Seemed a bit silly to do this on the P4 3.6mhz because probably less than half of us have anything that fast.