Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually

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  1. Posts : 58
    Windows 7
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    Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually


    My Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually. when I start the windows , after some hours the amount of free memory space , goes down. this falling, continues every hours and after 3 days memory usage goes upper than 85 percent.

    I already close all softwares and kill all unnecessary processes in task manager , but the memory free space , doesn't increase. I must shutdown the computer and after that the memory goes to normal but again after some hours it starts to goes up and up ...

    I also used the memory optimizing and freeing softwares like (Memory Booster Gold - RAM Saver Pro) , but they didn't help me.

    I have TWO 1-Gigabyte DDR-400 Transcend Ram
    (I have these memories for 2 years)

    Physical Memory: 2000 mb
    Paging File: 2000 mb
    Virtual Memory: 6000 mb

    any trick ?
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  2. Posts : 28,845
    Win 8 Release candidate 8400
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    raya2 said:
    My Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually. when I start the windows , after some hours the amount of free memory space , goes down. this falling, continues every hours and after 3 days memory usage goes upper than 85 percent.

    I already close all softwares and kill all unnecessary processes in task manager , but the memory free space , doesn't increase. I must shutdown the computer and after that the memory goes to normal but again after some hours it starts to goes up and up ...

    I also used the memory optimizing and freeing softwares like (Memory Booster Gold - RAM Saver Pro) , but they didn't help me.

    I have TWO 1-Gigabyte DDR-400 Transcend Ram
    (I have these memories for 2 years)

    Physical Memory: 2000 mb
    Paging File: 2000 mb
    Virtual Memory: 6000 mb

    any trick ?

    Many applications "leak" memory. Browsers are notorious. My firefox starts @ 85 Mb, but after 8 hours is somewhere around 450 Mb. While not normal it is inevitable. That coupled with the fact that you dont reboot often, and have minimum ram, this is a problem I dont think you can resolve.

    The things you can do to minimize the problem is add ram, and reboot more often.

    Good luck


    Ken
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  3. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #3

    can you do a screenshot of your task managers performance tab when this problem is occuring please? like the one iv posted below

    is it "free" ram thats disappearing, or "available"?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually-memory.png  
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  4. Posts : 58
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    reboot more often
    but for some reasons like downloading i must run my computer for more than 3 days

    you dont reboot often, and have minimum ram
    yes - I dont reboot often but I have this problem recently - and there isnt any problem before this

    is it "free" ram thats disappearing, or "available"?
    I don't really know -
    here is a screenshot from the start of reboot (with no problem)



    Because the computer started less than one hour ago, I must wait some hours so I'll upload a screenshot for the problem , some hours later.
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  5. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #5

    please do, I suspect that its actually windows doing what it is meant to, via Superfetch, but i could be wrong.

    If you look at that screen shot you uploaded, you can see under physical memory that you have 1318GB "available" and 533 "free" this difference is important, basically Windows loads your most commonly used applications into the RAM for faster access, this is the "Cached" figure. this is what causes your "Free" to go down, the important figure however is "Available" because if a program is loaded that needs more memory, then it will dump the "Cached" and use the "Available"

    I hope thats clear enough for you... basically if "Free" is disapearing it isn't an issue, if "Available" is then it is
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  6. Posts : 58
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #6

    ok - here is a screenshot for after 8 hours (no program runnung in the background) :



    it is obvious that :
    free section decreased too much (sometimes it reaches to zero)
    and the available section decreased a little (available memory decresed about 110mb)

    I'll upload even more screenshots in upcoming hours...
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  7. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #7

    i've seen enough, there is nothing wrong with that picture, you have 1202 AVAILABLE that is the important number, the "Free" is unused RAM, which is useless, what Windows has done is it has used Superfetch to filll your RAM with your most used programs, to make them load faster, Unused RAM is wasted RAM, the Available is what is important, if the Cached Ram is needed (ie what superfetch is using) Windows will free it up, your system is working as its meant to

    that slight decrease in Available is quite normal, its probably Indexing and such kicking in, these tend to start a little after Windows has started

    here is some more info on Superfetch: Coding Horror: Why Does Vista Use All My Memory?
    SuperFetch Enhanced Prefetch - Instantaneous application launch - Softpedia
    Understand how SuperFetch uses RAM to enhance system performance, from Greg Shultz - White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet
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  8. Posts : 58
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #8

    no there is a problem - because decreasing the amount of available memory , continues and like I said before , after about 3 days , I cant do anything but restarting the windows. also when the available memory goes below 15% in the third day , there is an error appears, when I want to access some folders...
    (I will upload a picture of that error in a day or two from now when it will appear)

    look at this picture that I upload now (also there is no softwares runnung in background) :



    the amount of available ram decreased from 1200 to 700 after 21 hours.

    and one more thing : Is it possible to disable the Superfetch ?
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  9. Posts : 3,427
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #9

    have you ran a full virus scan?
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  10. Posts : 58
    Windows 7
    Thread Starter
       #10

    no - I'll scan as soon as possible
    also I am going to scan my system with an anti-spyware software after that...
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