[CS4] About ram usage

Setup:
Sager NP8760 CPU i7 Q820 1.73ghz  both cores - RAM: Ram: 8192MB DDR3 1333 (2 DIMMS)
Vid card: ATI MR HD 5870 (1 GB)
Running Win7 64bit home prem
Using AE CS4.
I see this information on the bottom of the `Render que' when rendering footage.
RAM: %60 used of 4GB
But I have 8 GB of ram installed.  So how can I tell if AE is seeing it... or is this info telling me it is not.

See this page:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/457704

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    Hey guys,
    First timer here. Ok here's my question :
    I recently bought a secondhand Macbook pro 15 inch. For me it's a huge upgrade coming from a 2009 13 inch Macbook pro. Because a friend of mine wants to buy my old one I was doing some diagnostics on the 13 inch, which has 4 GB of RAM, and found out it had a lot of inactive RAM usage and wired usage, almost 2 GB, due to a lot of launchdaemons etc which were hogging the RAM. I used terminal to kill these agents and deamons and now that system is running smooth again. Maybe it's wise to mention that the 13 inch runs on ML.
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    Lightroom LR4 - Silly RAM usage!!
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    Lightroom LR4 - Silly RAM usage!!
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