Re: Vista x64 RAM usage?
- From: "Mark H" <jmhonzell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:19:34 -0500
Maybe I'm missreading your post, but if you have 4 GB of memory, your
pagefile should be in the territory of 6 GB, not 32 MB, which is extremely
small for that amount of memory you have. Probably just a typo, eh?
"Anfy" <guest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,
I am new to this forum, so bare with me if this has already been
discussed...
When I first start my computer (Vista Ultimate x64), on 4GB of RAM, the
system uses about ~36%. This gradually increases to ~40% later on. The
problem is, when I leave the computer on for extended periods of time (a
few days), this "idle" RAM usage goes up dramatically, to 60+ and
sometimes 70+ %, with VERY few programs, if any, running. Looking at
task manager or process explorer (with admin rights enabled) shows
absolutely no culprit to this extreme RAM usage. Unlike what Superfetch
(if it were the problem) would do, when memory intensive programs (like
firefox and google earth, each easily taking up 300~500MB) are running,
the RAM is not given up, and results in total RAM usage of 80%+.
Sometimes this causes firefox to crash, and occasionally (haven't had it
happen in months), the system would crash.
The page file has been set to 32MB (left on so the virtual memory
addresses are open), but it clearly doesn't explain why Vista chews up
so much memory by itself.
Attached is a picture of Vista chewing up 81% RAM idling, with nothing
running except MSN and WMP. Just before this screenshot was taken, RAM
jumped up to 97% (nothing crashed, surprisingly), and soon afterwards,
it dropped to 66% (after being at ~80% for quite a while).
I've also noticed that around 2:30AM-3:00AM, something likes to start
eating RAM and CPU cycles (with no indication whatsoever in process
explorer), and eventually stop for no reason. This happens often.
Any idea where I should start? All help is greatly appreciated!
Edit: in the screenshot I forgot to enable all processes, but process
explorer (with admin rights) didn't show anything else except 2
svchost.exe's taking up ~280MB in total.
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