Extremely High Memory Usage

[AMG]

Hi. Recently something bizzare has been happening. My memory usage is maxing out but I cant figure out why. i have not installed anything unusual etc.
Attached is a pic of the process's in task manager (around 100-200MB) but as u can see on the right it says over 800MB... Why???

 

[zigzag3143]

How much memory is installed?

 

[pparks1]

Can you give us a screeshot of the performance tab? That will show us how much memory is installed, how much is cached and what the kernel is consuming.

 

[holo88]

Hi. Recently something bizzare has been happening. My memory usage is maxing out but I cant figure out why. i have not installed anything unusual etc.
Attached is a pic of the process's in task manager (around 100-200MB) but as u can see on the right it says over 800MB... Why???

it's most likely Macafee interfering with utorent. it's not uncommon, they're kind of fighting each other. the only fix that utorrent offers, is to uninstall macafee, and find a different security program. it also happens with avast antivirus, and a few others.

of you could find another torrent client, i think that would be easier. try turning one or the other off, and see if it helps.

 

[AMG]

1 gig. I know i should get more but I'v never experienced this. Not even with Vista.

@ pparks1: I'll take a screenshot as soon as it happens again

@ holo88: I doubt its that but i'll definately give it a try

 

[AMG]

Here's a stable regular screenshot of the performance tab for now

 

[SquonkSC]

Hi,

Your system is not using exorbitant amounts of memory.

Your highest memory use for a single process is 19mb.
Not bad at all. I have processes doing more than 100mb.

I see nothing wrong in your screenshot, except for the many (unnecessary) processes that are running.
You might uncheck some automatic startups in msconfig, and if you know what you're doing disable some services.


But your main problem is the lack of memory.

1Gb just isn't enough to run Win7 smoothly.

2Gb will do just fine as long as you don't run Photoshop with fifty pictures opened at the same time.

3Gb will run excellent, and give your CPU room to breath.

good luck

 

[Antman]

Tell me the RAM type your system requires. I will ship you two GB.

 

[AMG]

Tell me the RAM type your system requires. I will ship you two GB.

lol your kidding me right? well its DDR2 667 if im not mistaken

Well heres the screenshot of it maxing out

 

[AMG]

Hi,

Your system is not using exorbitant amounts of memory.

Your highest memory use for a single process is 19mb.
Not bad at all. I have processes doing more than 100mb.

It was only 19MB becasue I was doing absolutely nothing at the time

 

[zigzag3143]

What AV? Is either indexing or win media sharing running?

 

[AMG]

What AV? Is either indexing or win media sharing running?

If you mean anti-virus its Mcafee Viruscan enterprise 8.7i.
Win media Sharing is off and indexing is on i think

 

[AMG]

Im preparing to return to vista...never thought i'd ever say that but I cant handle it any longer...

 

[pparks1]

Im preparing to return to vista...never thought i'd ever say that but I cant handle it any longer...

I'm quite surprised to here you say that Vista was alright with 1GB of RAM. My experience shows that 7 is a bit easier on the system resources. Either way, I'd see about bumping up the amount of ram you have.

 

[zigzag3143]

when this is happening, in process tab is anything shown as using the memory? Does it stay that way or release without re-booting?

 

[AMG]

I'v used vista ultimate for about 2years on my current system without hassle, even during (light) photoshop use.

No there are no process to account for the increase in memory usage and the only way to solve it but sometimes after a while it goes away.Im taking long to reply becasue its happening right now.

Should I try a fresh install again?

 

[zigzag3143]

A

If it wasnt doing this all along in win 7 a clean re-install would help. Since it didnt do this in vista it shouldnt in win 7

 

[pparks1]

I agree with ziggag on this one....you really shouldn't be having this problem. Of course, neither of us have likely run Win7 on a box with 1GB of RAM either.

 

[holo88]

i can confirm that 1gig is sufficient to run 7. my memory usage has yet to exceed 60% with all my usual apps running (A/V, Firefox, media player, etc)

im puzzled at your issue. maybe a fresh, clean install WILL be the best thing to fix this.

 

[AMG]

As sonn as my backup is done i'll be re-installing and i'll be back to let you know that the problem is sorted...hopefully