Superfetch

something daft already!! · 10 May 2007 at 19:21

The longer I leave Vista booted for, the larger the memory footprint gets. It goes from about 30% usage on day 1 then day 2 it has increased to 57% and day 3 72%. I have 4 gb of ram and do not notice any difference in the speed apps load from day 1 to day 3. I also dont notice any difference in performance of game either, so i dont think I am "losing" the memory, but where is it going? What is using it, is there a way to see what superfetch is upto? See whats loaded into memory? Nothing in processes tell me it using much memory, although sidebar does have two entries, closing one I lose half of my gadgets, so I guess this is normal.

gareth170 · 10 May 2007 at 19:33

don't worry about it.

its just getting programs into ram....

no point having ram thats doing nothing....

Craig321 · 11 May 2007 at 02:19

It's basically loading programs into memory so they all load faster... i think.

Then when a game is loaded it'll release some RAM for it

BoomAM · 11 May 2007 at 16:06

As has been said.
Vista isnt a memory hog, it just does a lot of caching to speed things up for you.
The RAMs there to be used at the end of the day, and Vista uses it.

no_1_dave · 11 May 2007 at 17:45

Mine was doing that too.
Checked Task Manager & found it was Nero Scout

Once Nero Scout was turned off the footprint stays at about 700 - 800 MB now

something daft already!! · 17 May 2007 at 10:49

Got a feeling mine may be azureus as this runs constantly. I would like to be able to see what is in the contents of superfetch, because I am sure this is not needed.

squiffy · 17 May 2007 at 10:51

howiepoohs said:
Got a feeling mine may be azureus as this runs constantly. I would like to be able to see what is in the contents of superfetch, because I am sure this is not needed.

Azureus is quite a hog, switch to utorrent.

something daft already!! · 17 May 2007 at 11:08

Yeah, but I like az, I dont like utorrent's GUI. I have 4 gb anyway so it's not an issue as such.

Uhtred · 17 May 2007 at 11:22

It could well be memory leaks. I've found the side bar (i do use a lot of gadgets) and az to leak memory quite badly. I reload the sidebar every now and then and switched to utorrent and it's all running much better.