Windows don't use all my memory

[kastoras]

Hello!
I have Windows 7 Professional x64 with 16GB of memory and 16GB more in cache, but when my memory usage reaches 10-11GB, then my applications display popups that I don't have any more memory and windows auto-disable aero. I have gtx 670 graphic card. Here's some screenshots:

Any idea???

 

[BisVal]

I see your cpu is 2% - so there is no big activity. 63% RAM usage in idle is too big , I think. Of course , it depends on how many background processes goes on. I have different machines with 2 , 4 and 8 Gb of RAM and Windows (7 ultimate) uses about 30% in idle. So check your services and see which are using more memory.

 

[kastoras]

It's not on idle, it's a normal usage. I think chrome uses most of my memory, I guess it's my fault cause I have many tabs open, but I don't have any problem with it. My problem is that windows don't let me use more memory. I should have a total of 32GB (16phys+16pagefile), so why does my system stop working when I don't even use 11GB of 16?

 

[wildpig1234]

why do you even use pagefile with 16 gb ram? when i had 16 gb ram and was not using page files, i never use more than 30% of memory. The key is that all these web browsers just keep eating up memory as you use them so you have to restart them once in a while to clear the ram usage.

 

[DirtRider]

The latest FF is supposed to clear it for you if that helps at all

 

[wildpig1234]

i am still stuck with the dreaded IE 8 in win7 ;(. IE usage goes up to 1 GB and all browsing activity would then get locked up. And then i have to task manager and end all the ie processes that use over 100MB... Is there a fix rel by ms for this problem?

 

[mitchell65]

i am still stuck with the dreaded IE 8 in win7

Why?

 

[stormy13]

215 running processes? Might want to close a few things there.

Also up-time of 16 days. A restart now and then might help as well.

 

[kastoras]

why do you even use pagefile with 16 gb ram? when i had 16 gb ram and was not using page files, i never use more than 30% of memory.

Because all articles that I've read advise to use a pagefile.
https://www.google.com/search?q=should i use a pagefile

The key is that all these web browsers just keep eating up memory as you use them so you have to restart them once in a while to clear the ram usage.

I have more than 100 tabs open. I can't close it and re-open all them just to free 500mb.

i am still stuck with the dreaded IE 8 in win7 ;(. IE usage goes up to 1 GB and all browsing activity would then get locked up. And then i have to task manager and end all the ie processes that use over 100MB... Is there a fix rel by ms for this problem?

Please make a new thread for your problem.


I think you understand me wrong. I don't care if chrome uses 6GB. I bought 16 GB so that I can run many processes. Yeah, I know I should have bought 32, but it's too late now. My problem is that windows see that I have 16GB but when I use 11GB it thinks that my memory has exhausted and that I don't have any more.

 

[Layback Bear]

Can you show us your memory usage.

 

[kastoras]

215 running processes? Might want to close a few things there.

Also up-time of 16 days. A restart now and then might help as well.

I don't like to restart I bought my PC 2-3 months ago. The first month everything was ok. Then I decided to restart in order to install security updates (I think I kept it open for 1 additional month) and after then I use my PC for 1 week without problems, but then after 1-2 days this problem appears and I have to either restart or close applications. So I'm looking for another solution.

Can you show us your memory usage. View attachment 230497

Here it is:

 

[Layback Bear]

Thank you for the picture. Next, so we can help you better fill out your ((My System Specs)). Use the User CP at the top of the page.
A little program that might help.
Speccy - System Information - Free Download
If you are keep all the pages open and not restarting your computer your problem will not go away.
How many utorrents/P2P do you have running at one time?

 

[FliGi7]

So far, nothing you've stated about your computer usage has shown why Windows would need to use 10GB of memory in normal use. Stormy13 is right that 215 processes is an insanely high number of processes as well.

Help us get an idea of what's installed on your system and what programs are running at startup by performing the following two things and posting them back here:

How To: Get List Of Installed Apps In Vista/Windows 7 Without Any Software
Generate a List of Windows Startup Programs using the Command Line

 

[kastoras]

Thank you for the picture. Next, so we can help you better fill out your ((My System Specs)). Use the User CP at the top of the page.
A little program that might help.
Speccy - System Information - Free Download
If you are keep all the pages open and not restarting your computer your problem will not go away.
How many utorrents/P2P do you have running at one time?

I've updated my specs with the more useful info. Since I built my system, I added few more details about some specs that programs can't find.

I only run utorrent.

So far, nothing you've stated about your computer usage has shown why Windows would need to use 10GB of memory in normal use. Stormy13 is right that 215 processes is an insanely high number of processes as well.

Help us get an idea of what's installed on your system and what programs are running at startup by performing the following two things and posting them back here:

How To: Get List Of Installed Apps In Vista/Windows 7 Without Any Software
Generate a List of Windows Startup Programs using the Command Line

Well, this show my installed programs, but this doesn't mean that I run them. Well here's a list of what I'm running:
Chrome (each tab is a process, so 100 from these 200+ processes are chrome)
Photoshop
Ftp Client
10-20 Notepads
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Word
Utorrent
VMWare
MS Paint
TeamViewer
CMD windows
Apache Server
MySQL
e.t.c
The rest are system drivers (check this pic: http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/7444/procvl.png)

So as you can see I need all these. Well maybe 215 processes is an insanely high number, but my system should be able to run them.

 

[FliGi7]

We need the list of everything installed on your system as the link shows you how to do, not just what you're running. Please follow the instructions in both of the links and paste their output here.

 

[kastoras]

Installed
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Name                                                               Version         
BDE_ENT                                                            5.1.1           
Microsoft Office OneNote MUI (English) 2007                        12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Groove Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007          12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office InfoPath MUI (English) 2007                       12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Access MUI (English) 2007                         12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Shared Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007          12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Excel MUI (English) 2007                          12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Shared 64-bit Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007   12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Access Setup Metadata MUI (English) 2007          12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office PowerPoint MUI (English) 2007                     12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Publisher MUI (English) 2007                      12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Outlook MUI (English) 2007                        12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Office 64-bit Components 2007                     12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Shared 64-bit MUI (English) 2007                  12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Groove MUI (English) 2007                         12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Word MUI (English) 2007                           12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Proofing (English) 2007                           12.0.4518.1014  
Microsoft Office Shared MUI (English) 2007                         12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Proof (Greek) 2007                                12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Proof (English) 2007                              12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Proof (Spanish) 2007                              12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Office Proof (French) 2007                               12.0.6612.1000  
Microsoft Application Error Reporting                              12.0.6015.5000  
Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In                            14.0.5130.5003  
Windows Live Essentials                                            15.4.3502.0922  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.4148     9.0.30729.4148  
Windows Live Messenger                                             15.4.3538.0513  
Embarcadero Delphi and C++Builder XE2 Help System                  9.0             
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1                                           5.1.11          
JetBrains dotPeek 1.0                                              1.0.0           
Windows Live SOXE Definitions                                      15.4.3502.0922  
NVIDIA PhysX                                                       9.12.0213       
Skype™ 5.10                                                       5.10.116 
Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package                    2.0.50727       
Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2                                         9.0             
Windows Live Communications Platform                               15.4.3502.0922  
Intel® Trusted Connect Service Client                              1.23.216.0      
Windows Live UX Platform Language Pack                             15.4.3508.1109  
Platform                                                           1.39            
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone                                5.0.0.470252    
Windows Live Messenger                                             15.4.3538.0513  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.6161     9.0.30729.6161  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.6161     9.0.30729.6161  
Windows Live UX Platform Language Pack                             15.4.3508.1109  
Windows Live Photo Common                                          15.4.3502.0922  
tools-winPre2k                                                     8.8.2.703057    
tools-netware                                                      8.8.2.703057    
Windows Live PIMT Platform                                         15.4.3508.1109  
D3DX10                                                             15.4.2368.0902  
Security Update for CAPICOM (KB931906)                             2.1.0.2         
SmartBear AQtime 7 Standard for Embarcadero RAD Studio XE and XE2  7.30.535.861    
tools-linux                                                        8.8.2.703057    
VMware Workstation                                                 8.0.3.29699     
MSVCRT                                                             15.4.2862.0708  
ASUS GPU Tweak                                                     2.1.2.4         
Windows Live Photo Common                                          15.4.3502.0922  
Windows Live Language Selector                                     15.4.3555.0308  
tools-solaris                                                      8.8.2.703057    
Windows Live ID Sign-in Assistant                                  7.250.4232.0    
Microsoft Document Explorer 2008                                   9.0.21022       
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010  x64 Redistributable - 10.0.30319        10.0.30319      
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Extended                                4.0.30319       
tools-windows                                                      8.8.2.703057    
Windows Live Messenger                                             15.4.3538.0513  
VmciSockets                                                        9.1.54.1        
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148     9.0.30729.4148  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2010  x86 Redistributable - 10.0.30319        10.0.30319      
Microsoft Silverlight                                              4.1.10329.0     
tools-freebsd                                                      8.8.2.703057    
MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1                                           5.1.11          
Windows Live Photo Common                                          15.4.3502.0922  
ESET NOD32 Antivirus                                               5.0.93.0        
Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile                          4.0.30319       
Windows Live UX Platform                                           15.4.3502.0922  
Windows Live Essentials                                            15.4.3502.0922  
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x64 9.0.30729.17       9.0.30729       
Windows Live Installer                                             15.4.3502.0922  
Windows Live SOXE                                                  15.4.3502.0922

StartUP
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Caption                                       Command                                                                                           
Sidebar                                       %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun                                               
Sidebar                                       %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun                                               
Google Update                                 "C:\Users\kastoras\AppData\Local\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c                             
C:\Program Files (x86)\NetMeter\NetMeter.exe  C:\Program Files (x86)\NetMeter\NetMeter.exe                                                      
DAEMON Tools Pro Agent                        "C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Pro\DTAgent.exe" -autorun                                    
msnmsgr                                       "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background                           
Sidebar                                       %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun                                               
VIAxHCUtl                                     C:\VIA_XHCI\usb3Monitor.exe                                                                       
egui                                          "C:\Program Files\ESET\ESET NOD32 Antivirus\egui.exe" /hide /waitservice

 

[FliGi7]

Thank you for that. All of that looks fine. Do you have a screenshot of the exact error message that you get?

 

[kastoras]

Nope, it just an out of memory error. The message could be from one application not from windows though. Windows somehow understand that something's wrong with the memory and decide to disable the aero. I try to re-enable aero by restarting the UXSMS service. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
If it disables aero and I keep pushing it and run new programs, the screen becomes weird. Most of my screen becomes black and part of my screen appears from time to time (e.g. programs running, or i could see the taskbar but in the top e.t.c.). When I'll close one from my running applications, the screen will become normal and if I close a few more I can re-enable aero.

 

[FliGi7]

The solution to the problem might depend on whether it's Windows issuing the error (denoting a system level problem) or a specific program issuing the error (denoting an issue only with a particular program). So, it would be good to find that out and post up the error when you receive it again for us to try and determine that.

 

[Layback Bear]

In your list of programs is.
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 12.0.6612.1000
Who owns this computer?