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So, I have 4Gb of ram on a 64 bit OS, and yet I just started getting 95% memory usage despite nothing really using any memory.

This only seems to happen when I watch the iPlayer, and disabling hardware acceleration seems to fix the problem, though is there an alternative fix? And why can't windows track this memory? o_O
 
I am running the latest flash, and the exact same thing happened again while I had a flash game open, so I'm guessing that's going to be the problem. Loaded up the same game in IE and it seems to be fine.

Welp, not sure what to do about this. I'd rather not have to rely on IE, but I'd also like a functional system :x
 
Could be a dodgy driver. I once had my system grind to a holt because Virtualbox went wrong and the driver used all memory (including paged memory!) and it didn't show up in the process list either.
 
Just happened again. I had a flash game paused in the background, but that had been open for hours now. Finished watching an avi file in media player classic, loaded up another one and boom, 100% ram and my hard drive grinding away as it tried to dump everything into the paging file. Closed MPC and its back again.

Good call on drivers, I'll try updating the catalyst's to the 10.4 preview as apparently that fixes some Firefox 4 hardware accelleration issues.
 
Try Process Explorer from SysInternals Suite if you want to track down what's actually using the memory. Windows Task Manager is notoriously flawed in how it presents metrics.
 
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Didn't get the screenshot right away, but I heard the disk crunching away, and explorer.exe was reading the heck out of the file, was at 60,000,000B/sec. Couldn't get process explorer open fast enough to check anything on there, though. I assume I would be wanting to watch the 'private bytes' column in that?

Anyway, could the whole problem be explorer just trying to get its head around a 5Gb mkv? Trying to index it, or something?
 
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I'm thinking its windows trying to build thumbnails for 5Gb mkv files? It just happened twice, and I noticed that during the first time, I had a folder open with a 5.04Gb mkv video, and the green bar in the address bar thing was filling up, the way it does when looking through a folder or something, you know what I mean?

Going from this, I've just disabled indexing for the folder these mkv's go to, see if that stops this happening.
 
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Windows will thumbnail mkvs by default anyway if you have something like ffdshow/haali media splitter codecs etc installed - I have it on mine but RAM usage never goes up like that. What software player do you use?
 
I play everything with media player classic home cinema x64, though I've just noticed I'm using a version that's a couple of years out of date! Codec wise, I'm using the Windows 7 codec pack, and the x64 components, though again these are a few months out of date too, so I'll update them as well.
 
With the Win 7 codec pack & 64bit components, there's an option in the 32bit and the 64bit options/settings screen for mkv to disable thumbnails

Haali also has this option in it's settings
 
bledd. said:
With the Win 7 codec pack & 64bit components, there's an option in the 32bit and the 64bit options/settings screen for mkv to disable thumbnails

Haali also has this option in it's settings
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Thanks for the pointer, didn't notice that! Though as mentioned in my other thread in the forum, I'm now getting rid of his codec pack, which should also prevent this problem. Maybe.

Thanks for the help though :)
 
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