You would have to be monitoring it constantly to know for sure. Set no page memory and see if it slows down during more extensive operations in Sonar. If it does, it's swapping to disk.......

charlyg
You would have to be monitoring it constantly to know for sure. Set no page memory and see if it slows down during more extensive operations in Sonar. If it does, it's swapping to disk.......

if you set no page memory how does it swap to disk? generally it's not a good idea, as some apps rely on the swapfile being present... fwiw, i've never had more than 8G, never seen performance issues BUT i don't use many big sample libraries

I find it interesting how different experiences can be.   Me, I'm still running Win7 x64 on a Q9300 w/ 8GB RAM, and regularly use Konkakt, the rest of K9, AD2, Z3ta2, DimPro, Rapture, Loom, etc., along with lots of Pro Channel plugins, Melda, etc., etc., etc..  And I rarely freeze anything (something I really need to do more for future-proofing).   I guess it's the larger libraries from E/W, 8Dio, etc., that really hit the system a lot harder than I do!
 

 

stevec
I find it interesting how different experiences can be.   Me, I'm still running Win7 x64 on a Q9300 w/ 8GB RAM, and regularly use Konkakt, the rest of K9, AD2, Z3ta2, DimPro, Rapture, Loom, etc., along with lots of Pro Channel plugins, Melda, etc., etc., etc..  And I rarely freeze anything (something I really need to do more for future-proofing).   I guess it's the larger libraries from E/W, 8Dio, etc., that really hit the system a lot harder than I do!
 

Yeah, it's libraries from 8Dio, Cinesamples, and Spitfire that are the most memory hungry. Definitely worth it because they sound incredible, but you have to give them the fuel they need. 

The other limitation will be the secifications of the motherboard. I have one older laptop that will only read 8gb of ram.
 
Absolutely worth giving the 6gb a try, then go from there. Given that you have 6gb of Ram, I am guessing you already have Win X64 installed? If not your system at the moment is only reading 4gb, so it is worth installing X64 just to access the extra Ram.