Windows 10 syatem and compressed memory

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Just started using a new laptop and encountering win10 for the first time. In my setup I'm using Firefox with its profile dir on a network drive (as I want to be able to use if from various different machines) and I'm finding that occasionally everything "freezes" while for 20-30secs theres a constant ~500kb traffic on the (wireliess) network connection - admittedly had something similar on old laptop under win7 but had always attributed that to it being an old laptop that needed upgrading! Digging a bit into the perf meter I'm seeing that everytime I open a new page in firefox I see the network usage on Firefox spike (as expected) but there's also a corresponding spike on the system and compressed memory process. I can understand what the compressed memory is doing but can't sewe why it would be using netowrk bandwidth as its compressing to local memory.

Anyone seen this and/or got ideas how to stop this?
 
Does it happen locally?

If not then the problem is where you have it stored. Can you not use the login feature in Firefox to sync your favourites and such like rather than doing it on a network drive (seems a bit silly to have it on a network drive where by the disk may have to spin up, etc.)



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If not then the problem is where you have it stored. Can you not use the login feature in Firefox to sync your favourites and such like rather than doing it on a network drive (seems a bit silly to have it on a network drive where by the disk may have to spin up, etc.)
Yes, I'd started think about firefox synx (and been playing with a firefox profile on local drive) ... I'd been using current set up since before firefox had sync (!)
However what troubles me is why a mechanism that is described as compressing pages in memory instead of sending them to the page file is being reported as using network bandwidth. N.b. I've already disabled superfetch and told antivirus to ignore the firefox (and thunderbird) dirs on the network drive so I'm confused as to why its claiming to be using network bandwidth.
 
Using offline files and creating a sync partnership is another way. But the firefox sync might be a better option.

Is it an ssd the local machine? And could the Wifi be going into a low power state?
 
Using offline files and creating a sync partnership is another way. But the firefox sync might be a better option.

Is it an ssd the local machine? And could the Wifi be going into a low power state?

Ask for a manager.


Anyway shouldn't be needed now you can. Just clean install using w7/8/8.1 serial key
 
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