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Software uses ram. Having lots of open applications will use up your availible memory. Operating systems also use ram... A lot of it. If someone is running a Windows XP machine with only 128MB ram, it is time to upgrade. The OS uses 120MB just to run.
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Math intensive processes like drawing complex graphics as in gaming, manipulating large photo files or manipulating big files like movies. Burning movies, etc.
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All running programs use some RAM. Anywhere from 1-100MB per program. Aside from you operating system anything over 100MB is considered high... but there are some games and video editing software that uses that much. Also, keeping a program open for a long time can sometimes increase it's RAM usage. When I leave Firefox open for several hours it will start to run 100+MB of RAM. It's good to close the programs every once in a while.
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