How to find out how much RAM KSP uses?

[dreadwave21]

Want to know just incase if I get more mods and my Ksp becomes more slower. Mods I have right now are KW Rocketry, B9, AIES Aerospace, and Deadly reentry.

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

Drop KSP to the background and bring up the task manager in Windows (CTRL+ALT+DEL). It will tell you exactly which application is using what system resources.

[Smidge204]

Well, if you use some flavor of Windows, use the Task manager.

Mac OS has a very similar "Activity Monitor"

No idea about Linux systems.

=Smidge=

[DMagic]

In Linux you should be able to open a terminal and type "top". That will give you something similar to what task manager shows (though I think it gives memory usage as a percentage instead of an absolute number).

[dreadwave21]

Thankss, and if I keep all these mods, and get the visual enhancements: Clouds and City lights, will the game become slow? Right now whenever I point the camera at kerbin the game starts lagging.

Specs:

Intel Pentium G2030 dual core 3 ghz

Intel HD Graphics 3000

4 gb ram

Edited December 15, 2013 by dreadwave21

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

Thanks and btw I have windows 8

I'm using 7, but I assume it works the same.

[Liowen]

For an easier way to get the task manager use ctrl+ shift+ esc. This will automatically bring up task manager no extra clicking

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

For an easier way to get the task manager use ctrl+ shift+ esc. This will automatically bring up task manager no extra clicking

Cool, it works... I never knew. Thanks, never too old to learn.

[GROOV3ST3R]

It doesn't matter what windows you have really, KSP runs in 32bit mode only so it can use a maximum of less than 4GB. I think that's correct anyway - unity is 32 bit but I'm not sure of the exact number of memory it can use. It's not that much though, so try not to overload KSP with mods. If you do, you will need a texture reduction pack. I think they come with B9 and some other mod packs. That should help should your KSP start running out of memory.

[numerobis]

On linux or OSX, in a shell run "ps aux" and look at the RSS column.

That said, "How much RAM KSP uses" is an ill-posed question: there are many reasonable answers, with quite different values. I'm not sure which precise definition matches what you want to know, which is whether the game will be playable with more mods.

[MGCJerry]

As mentioned above... Anyway, heres mine at the loading screen. Achievements Mod & Engineer.

[Liowen]

Cool, it works... I never knew. Thanks, never too old to learn.

Old windows 3.1 thing that will never leave my head for whatever reason.....just like the sun is 93 million miles from Earth (roughly). I know things....mostly useless things....but I know things....and stuff!

[Galileo Kerbonaut]

Old windows 3.1 thing that will never leave my head for whatever reason.....just like the sun is 93 million miles from Earth (roughly). I know things....mostly useless things....but I know things....and stuff!

Aah, Windows 3.1... I was using Amiga back then.