Re: Virtual memory problem? - PF usage grows, not freed when apps

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Greg

Another small utility to monitor pagefile usage:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_pagefilemon.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"FL Guy" <FLGuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>> I do not know the answer to your last question.
>
> What happens if you use Windows for a while, then close all tasks - is the
> PF usage reduced below say, 300 MB?
>
>> Do you switch your computer off when not in use?
>
> Nope. Clearly, switching off and rebooting periodically would resolve (or
> at
> least work around) this behavior. I'd rather avoid this practice if
> possible.
>
> I prefer to leave Windows up for several reasons:
>
> 1) I have the computer download virus updates, defrag, etc over night
> 2) Windows is far from "instant on"
> 3) I prefer to save my working "context" from day to day when possible
>
>> We found Tablet. Perhaps we should be looking for another?
>
> I guess so (regretably :-) ... it still seems to me that this behavior of
> not releasing PF memory resembles an OS leak (or 'feature'?).
>
> [ Since
> 1) the memory use starts normal after all startup processes are loaded, I
> don't think it's excessive memory use by added background processes, and
> 2) the PF memory is not freed when all apps are closed. ]
>
> Maybe I have a bad a ssumption though that PF use should go back to at
> least
> somewhere _close_ to it's post-start up value after all apps closed. We
> could be chaising a wild goose here. But I think it's worth looking a bit
> further, since it seems to me that the PF use should drop below 600 MB
> with
> everything closed.
>
> By the way, in the course of this investigation, I have found that there
> are
> at least 2 memory leaks in Firefox. (I do have the latest version - v1.5,
> and I'm only using one, widely used extension - RoboForm). I have
> installed
> the 'fix' for one of the leaks
> (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1327586/posts), and the
> other
> appeard to have no fix as of yet - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak.
>
> But this still doesn't explain (I don't think) why the PF use stays so
> much
> higher than the initial, after all apps are closed.
>
> Any further thoughts or suggestions?


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