VERY high mem usage

nate42nd said:

I had this happen to me today. I was trying to run a chkdsk on an external HD. I have the paging file disabled (with SSD and 8GB RAM) build 7229 and it told me I was running low on memory.

I looked at resource monitor and "explorer.exe" was using 7.5 GB or RAM.

I restarted and it went away. Never seen this before....

Just for everyones information.

Check this thread out
https://www.sevenforums.com/news/1937...ows-7-rtm.html

Update speed was normal;

It was (and still is) a clean install of Windows, so no, no chance of infection;

The services were default;

I tried Process Explorer, it showed a total of about 3GB worth of programs under process memory tab;

This is not 7 RTM, it's RC1.

Rebooting did not fix the issue. The primary drive is a brand new SSD, so I doubt it's fragmentation or data corruption.

Interesting. But I wasn't running a check disk... I HAD opened a game (Unreal Tournament 3). It was closed, and the process was ended, however.

blah380 said:

Hey guys, I have Windows 7 RC1 (build 7000) x64 in English. While idling, Windows is using ~7GB of RAM (I have 12GB total).
I have NOTHING running that comes even CLOSE to this amount of usage, so what's going on?

Well in the old days of Windows XP you could install more RAM and you would receive a performance boost.

Nowdays Windows Vista / WIndows 7 will cache applications off HDD to all of your RAM like in my case powerpoint, excel and a host of other apps I rarely use. Awesome use of my RAM huh!

I've found foreground applications / the desktop in Vista and Windows 7 slower than Windows XP as a result.

johngalt said:

You have to remember - most people don't have that much RAM and thus don't have the ability to have all their stuff in RAM - you do - so it is not surprising to see it using that much b/c it has that much available an still has 5 GB free.

*and* you had your pagefile off b/c of the SSD....

So what you're saying is, Windows detects how good a computer you have and runs more applications if you have more memory?

This is complete and utter ****. Windows runs the same apps if you have 512MB of RAM or 128GB of it.

Having my page file off does not affect my current memory usage by 6GB, especially when nothing except the OS, Firefox, and Pidgin are running.

Perhaps you don't understand page filing - it's space on your hard drive that's used as if it was RAM. Since I had nothing running, it doesn't matter if page filing is enabled or not - nothing would have been page filed.

It's happening again.