Mysteriously High RAM Usage


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    Mysteriously High RAM Usage


    First, I need to thank the whole forum and admins for their great work in creating this very useful website. Really sorry to interrupt you, so I'll be really thankful for your response. I've tried searching for a solution for days while using my imagination to solve the problem with no luck.

    * The problem is I'm most of the time using 2 out of 4 GB of RAM [50% ++] or more while my Laptop is being idle or doing simple tasks.

    I Have 4 GB of Ram installed on my Toshiba Satellite A300 15A running 64bit Windows 7 Professional edition. This doesn't affect performance though, but I can recall using 30% Of my RAM in the past. [~3 Months ago]. It may not be a performance problem because I Defrag & Optimize, while trying to keep my Laptop's HDD Clean with no additional software. I've changed [reduced] many things from msconfig, windows futures so as to increase OS speed. This way my Laptop never lags. I never had problems with viruses tracking cookies etc.

    When I open task manager it sais ~ Processes=69 and ~ Physical Memory=47%
    Keeping in mind windows "messes up" lot of times with "calculations" or doesn't show "real" numbers - I calculated all the processes to get a result from RAM usage. The result is more or less 700 MB of 4 GB. Task Manager shows 47% Physical Memory. The same story goes with the resource Monitor. 2 GB In use. You can see the screenshots below.

    I Believe this is a problem because as time passes ram usage grows out of nowhere and I'm sure when OS uses more ram than it needs it becomes slower and slower while reading and writing in RAM Becomes more complicated.


    My Laptop's Hardware:
    * CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 [3 MB Cache, 2.10 GHz, 800MHz FSB]
    * RAM - 2 x 2GB DDR2 667 MHz [Dual Channel]
    * GPU - ATI Mobility Radeon HD3650 [512MB]
    * HDD - Western Digital Scorpio Black 250 GB [7200 rpm]
    * OS - Windows 7 x64 Professional


    Thank you In advance for any possible help.
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    Welcome

    You may want to download and use process explorer to see what is using the resources
    Process Explorer - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com

    In addition, you may want to take the memtest86, to insure that there are no memory problems.
    http://www.memtest86.com/
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       #3

    Your RAM usage looks perfectly fine...
    This is not Windows XP.

    Only worry about RAM when you have a high level of Page Faults.
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    richc46 said:
    Welcome

    You may want to download and use process explorer to see what is using the resources
    Process Explorer - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com
    Shows the same results as Task Manager

    richc46 said:
    In addition, you may want to take the memtest86, to insure that there are no memory problems.
    Memtest86.com - Memory Diagnostic
    No problems detected

    logicearth said:
    Your RAM usage looks perfectly fine...
    This is not Windows XP.

    Only worry about RAM when you have a high level of Page Faults.
    The whole reason I'm posting is the fact that task manager does not measure/ show all the processes. What I mean: It sais 47% (out of 4 GB) -> Near 2 GB
    WHen I add all the processes shown in task manager I get a ~ 700MB result. This means 1.3 GB is missing or is somehow hidden?
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    Task Manager reports processes, not everything that uses RAM is a process. This could be DLLs and other items loaded by the kernal. Here use RAMMap, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../ff700229.aspx
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  6. tea
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    Windows aggressively use memory for caching and for SuperFetch but release memory if it is needs for a program.
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    tea said:
    Windows aggressively use memory for caching and for SuperFetch but release memory if it is needs for a program.
    Thank you

    logicearth said:
    Task Manager reports processes, not everything that uses RAM is a process. This could be DLLs and other items loaded by the kernal. Here use RAMMap, RAMMap
    Thank you

    * How can I mark this thead as solved?
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