Re: Virtual memory problem? - PF usage grows, not freed when apps clos
- From: "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:39:01 -0000
On the Processes tab in Task Manager you may get more information if you
select View, Select Columns and check before Virtual Memory Size.
What programmes and versions are you using, which use significant amounts of
virtual memory? Any old programmes pre Windows 98 era?
Have you installed any "memory boosters"?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"FL Guy" <FLGuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm running XP w/ SP2 (on a Tablet PC in case that matters) w/ 512 MB
> (currently - I'm upgrading memory soon, largely because of this problem
> :-(
> ).
>
> The system is fine at startup - memory usage normal, and performance is
> fine, so I don't think that my problem is an issue of background tasks
> loaded
> at startup using up excessive amounts of memory.
>
> After I've been using the system for a while, the system will slow to a
> crawl, and becomes almost completely unresponsive - moderately high CPU
> use,
> with some disk activity. When I use the Task Monitor to look at what's
> going
> on, in the Performance tab I see that the Page File usage is 800 or 900
> MB.
>
> Fine, so I close any/ALL open apps. The PF usage only goes down to 725 to
> 850 MB, and the system is still extremely slow, with some disk access
> going
> on, and high CPU use.
>
> (None of the processes seem to be abnormally large by them selves, so I
> don't think that I'm seeing the TCServe.exe memory leak.)
>
> 1) Is it normal that PF usage a) continues to grow *indefinitely* over
> time,
> and b) is not freed when all apps are closed, resulting in continued
> degraded
> performance after XP has been running for a day or so?
>
> 2) If not (hopefully! :-), what is the best (quickest) way to determine
> whether I'm seeing a memory leak in an app, or some strange XP memory
> management behavior?
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions!
> Gregg
>
>
>
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