Re: System pretends to be out of memory when it isn't
- From: "Wowbagger" <none>
- Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:25:41 -0500
At the very bottom:
>>> Software run on the system:
>>> MS Office 2003
>>> Norton AntiVirus 2005
>>> Firefox
>>> MSIE
>>> GAIM
>>> MS Streets & Trips 2005
>>> Google Desktop Search
>>> MS AntiSpyware
>>> GoToMyPC
>>> MusicMatch Jukebox (suspected this one first, but couldn't demonstrate a
>>> link)
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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application list is at the bottom of this post ??????????????????
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"Wowbagger" <none> wrote in message
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> Nothing seems to be asking for the full 2Gb. Perfmon usually shows
> handles
> in the 16,000 - 18,000 range if the system is bogging down or not. The
> application list is at the bottom of this post - the only other thing I
> ever
> use is paint.net
>
>
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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> Swap files don't care about fragmentation. It is not slower or faster as
> they are accesssed by disk location not as a file and nor are they
> sequential. However the more fragments the more memory used to track the
> fragments. We've only seen one person here who had a problem with this
> (tens
> of thousands of fragments), 2, 3, 50, 100 fragments is irrelevent.
>
> All your symptoms are of a computer with no more memory to allocate. Make
> the swap 2 gig (don't defrag - not worth it) and see if that helps.
>
> See other resources, like registry (size or handles), what programs do you
> run, is one asking for it's full 2 gigs of address space?
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> "Wowbagger" <none> wrote in message
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>> Yes - a static swap of 1 Gb located on C: (the only HDD in the system).
>> No
>> fragments - the swap was deleted, the system defragged twice then the
>> swap
>> recreated into a single chunk. The behavior was identical both before
>> and
>> after this operation several months ago. A dynamic swap file was
>> originally
>> used but my heavy disk usage quickly fragmented it to shreds.
>>
>> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
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>> Do you have a swap file?
>>
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>> "Wowbagger" <none> wrote in message
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>>> XP SP2 on a P-4 at 2.4 GHz and 1Gb of RAM.
>>>
>>> The system is usually quite zippy but after several hours of use the
>>> system
>>> will slow down and act as if it is running out of memory - new windows
>>> won't
>>> open unless I close existing windows, can't copy/paste to or from the
>>> clipboard unless I close more applications and the like. Performance
>>> monitor shows low CPU usage - around 5-20% depending on exactly what I
>>> am
>>> doing and available physical memory usually shows 256-512Mb and the
>>> commit
>>> charge typically running about 1/2 of the limit (peak is usually less
>>> than
>>> 1/2 of the limit as well). A simple reboot and all is well once again
>>> for
>>> another several hours.
>>>
>>> There is no pattern to the "running out of resources" behavior. Despite
>>> frequent scans for virus, worm or trojan activity nothing has ever been
>>> found. Norton Antivirus, MS AntiSpyware, Spybot, Hijack This!,
>>> TrendMicro,
>>> Panda and a few others have all been used and came up with exactly
>>> nothing.
>>> I've tracked CPU usage, disk i/o, memory usage, swap activity, network
>>> i/o
>>> and nothing indicates what is eating up the resources.
>>>
>>> Could somebody please throw a few ideas my way? I've run out of ideas
>>> on
>>> where to look for the problem. What performance monitors should I try
>>> watching? I can't even tell where the bottlenecks are.
>>>
>>> Software run on the system:
>>> MS Office 2003
>>> Norton AntiVirus 2005
>>> Firefox
>>> MSIE
>>> GAIM
>>> MS Streets & Trips 2005
>>> Google Desktop Search
>>> MS AntiSpyware
>>> GoToMyPC
>>> MusicMatch Jukebox (suspected this one first, but couldn't demonstrate a
>>> link)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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