It's not too bad of a performance hit but our old 512 of Ram tower needs a few extra chips here, so for the moment I want to just look for labs a few times a day.
If anyone wants to know exactly how much system resources a particular program consumes across time, I would recommend using Systrack software from Lakeside Software. It does many more things but it certainly would answer the question about how much system resources a particular program executable uses. This will give you the exact memory footprint of each application running on your computer along with CPU, disk, and other stats. Free to try out too.
Main web page:
http://portal.lakesidesoftware.com/The demo page is found here:
http://portal.lakesidesoftware.com/DemoRequest.aspxI have used it in several situations since 2004 and it works extremely well, especially on older, less loaded computers.
