RAM Useage

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 11:56

I know Vista and 7 like to use a lot of RAM but something is not right. If I leave my computer on e.g. over night - the RAM useage shoots up to 80% (idle). As a result, things become slight sluggish. A restart sorts it out but it has only started doing this recently - I have left my computer on most nights for years. Any ideas? Using Windows 7 RC1 x64

mrk · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:25

What process has the memory leak have you checked?

Task Manager tbh

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:36

This is not a screen shot of the problem, merely one of how many processes are been used after a restart.

mrk · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:40

That just shows perfectly normal memory usage though

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:47

Because I restarted it. Before I did, there were 57 processes and svchost and firefox were the only ones above 100Mb

mrk · 15 Sep 2009 at 12:52

Well these screenshots don't help give any more information to the problem!

57 processes on vista is nothing, a few hundred MB used is also nothing. How much total RAM do you have? for Vista you should have a minimum of 3GB for ideal performance.

The screeny shows 32% of total memory used, I have not added up the processes but a vague guess tells me you are running 2GB?

If so then this may be a problem...

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:03

I have 4Gb. What I don't understand is how there are the same amount of processes before and after, what seems to be the same useage by programs but Windows claiming something is using another 1.5Gb (32% to 70-80%)

mrk · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:05

That will probably be Superfetch - all normal behaviour.

Is it 32bit or 64bit?

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:10

64bit. Normal? It becomes sluggish though - especially in games.

mrk · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:14

Well without knowing what process has the memory leak it's impossible to proceed further :/

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:18

Ok. Thanks. I will take a screen shot next time it happens and report back.

Swifty55 · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:18

Do you use Ventrilo?

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 13:24

Swifty55 said:
Do you use Ventrilo?

No - what is it?

Mattus · 15 Sep 2009 at 18:48

First thing I'd do is disable Spybot TeaTimer. That's known to have problems with memory usage and CPU usage.

doodah · 15 Sep 2009 at 22:52

What other anti-spyware programs do you recommend?

doodah · 16 Sep 2009 at 19:29

After leaving it on over night, same thing. Same amount of process yet 70% memory use.

doodah · 17 Sep 2009 at 16:33

Any ideas/

mrk · 17 Sep 2009 at 16:36

Nothing in that list shows a memory leak though, if when you start using the pc like opening a browser, loading a game, exiting etc and the mem returns then it's probably just an idle process - if pc slows down only during this time when 70% is consumed /somewhere/ then something is memory leaking, no way of knowing what though going by that taskmgr.

sturmtruppe · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:06

Try booting into safe mode and use that for a bit to see if its a windows process causing the issue. If i think right its safe mode with networking so you can use the net as well.

But alsmot 100mb for teatimer which is ???antispyware??? doesnt sound rght, i would uninstall. I notice there is an eset service, so do you have nod32 installed? If so i think that covers antispyware so eset & teatimer might be causing problems with one another.

PS If you have nod32, which version is it? Version 4 (Latest)?

bledd · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:13

disable the Windows Defender Real-Time scanning

Nod32 is enough on it's own without needing defender and Spybot running

just do a weekly spybot or 'mbam' scan, no need to run resident scanners for them

that's almost like having 3x antivirus scanners