All my RAM is cached?

SomethingRoyal said:
Just a quick question as this has been causing lots of lag of my programs, even my mouse at times...

I have 4x4GB 16GB total of Corsair Dominator Platinum 1600MHz RAM

http://puu.sh/1P81g <- Image

Thanks in advance,
Dan
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Having the memory cached/available isn't a problem in itself, it just Windows trying to make the best use of resources.

How do you know that this is what's causing your problems?

Have you been playing with the page file settings?
 
What is actually happening? Is it actual lag, or by lag do you mean things are running slow?

It's more likely that it's not actually lag, and that your CPU is at 100% usage which can make the computer run very sluggish and make it very slow to respond to commands and so on.
 
bremen1874 said:
Having the memory cached/available isn't a problem in itself, it just Windows trying to make the best use of resources.

How do you know that this is what's causing your problems?

Have you been playing with the page file settings?
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I turned off all my page files for all my drives as I was told it was the thing to do if you use an SSD boot drive. And I don't know if it was the cause of my problems, Right now I have my GPU out and I'm running on the integrated HD4000 graphics and I don't seem to be having the issue that I was having.

zakblood said:
what your page file setting and how much hard drive space left?

o/s in use?
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Page file is "None" for all drives.

HDD's:
SSD #1 (Boot Drive): Corsair Force 3 120GB (70GB Free)
SSD #2: OCZ Agility 3 60GB (55GB Free)
HDD #1: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB (663GB Free)
HDD #2: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 6GB/s (317GB Free)

OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

spoffle said:
What is actually happening? Is it actual lag, or by lag do you mean things are running slow?

It's more likely that it's not actually lag, and that your CPU is at 100% usage which can make the computer run very sluggish and make it very slow to respond to commands and so on.
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My monitor, usually just one of the two but sometimes both of them go extremely laggy. By that I mean the mouse movements are laggy, if I click and drag a window it's laggy, and in a game if I'm at 60FPS solid it looks like 10FPS. If that makes sense.
 
SomethingRoyal said:
I turned off all my page files for all my drives as I was told it was the thing to do if you use an SSD boot drive. And I don't know if it was the cause of my problems, Right now I have my GPU out and I'm running on the integrated HD4000 graphics and I don't seem to be having the issue that I was having.
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Re-enable automatic page file management and see if fixes the problem.

Disabling the page files is fine if you have lots of memory, and never do anything that actually needs it. Otherwise you're just stopping Windows from managing its memory properly.

When you have a lot of memory there's a good case for running with a page file that's smaller than the Windows default, but it should still be there. It should be located on a SSD if there's one installed.
 
bremen1874 said:
Re-enable automatic page file management and see if fixes the problem.

Disabling the page files is fine if you have lots of memory, and never do anything that actually needs it. Otherwise you're just stopping Windows from managing its memory properly.

When you have a lot of memory there's a good case for running with a page file that's smaller than the Windows default, but it should still be there. It should be located on a SSD if there's one installed.
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Should I re-enable it just for my C:\ SSD then? Or for all my SSD's or all my drives?
 
Set it at 1024 minimum 2048 maximum. You should never disable it completely, it causes more problems than its worth.
 
Span the page over over both your SSD's, this will improve page file performance. So whatever page file size you were going to choose, split it and place half on each SSD.
 
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