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Idle System RAM/CPU Usage
Hey guys, I was wondering if this amount of RAM usage was normal, for just idling after startup:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...terStartup.png
To me, this seems pretty high and it can go anywhere between what you see here and 1.70GB at times! I notice many systems on here through screenshots being at or well under 1GB for just idling and not doing anything directly after startup, except for mine. I realize my notebook is a multi-touch touchscreen paired with a mutli-gesture mouse pad gizmo and that both must demand more system resources on account of these features than the standard would, but I don’t think those alone should be eating up that much of my RAM.
With that said, how to I pinpoint what is eating all of my RAM and what can I do to get this figure down under 1GB for system idle?
Before we go on let me address this first and foremost, I have NOT messed with startup threads/programs yet because I just don’t know what they are, what they do and if they HAVE to be ran directly at startup or not for the system to run. If you can help me through this as well I would be very grateful and will screenshot what you need to see in order to tell me what to get rid of and what to keep, if necessary.
Currently, this is not interfering with any of my computing tasks, but to be perfectly frank it scares me that my RAM skyrockets to a solid 3GB load doing nothing but playing simple flashgames in Furefox! Same thing for Sims 2 and Sims 3 – that definitely should not be happening as TS2 demands only 256MB and TS3 only 1GB.
More concerning, is the fact that both of my core 2 duo T6600 processors are being maxed out. I don’t know if that is normal, or what the heck it is but this also concerns me a bit.
Just for the sake of keeping system loads low and stable for the future longevity of this system I would really appreciate some help here. Thank you!