high ram usage?

[saketh321]

whenever i try to see the ram usage of my computer it tells me around 40% or so right away at startup with 2gb of ram. I checked out the processes and see that svchost.exe is taking up about 94000 kb of ram. When i track that to a service i see it is the Windows driver foundation service.

Is this high ram usage because of a driver or does x64 take up quite a bit more of ram than x86?

 

[zigzag3143]

whenever i try to see the ram usage of my computer it tells me around 40% or so right away at startup with 2gb of ram. I checked out the processes and see that svchost.exe is taking up about 94000 kb of ram. When i track that to a service i see it is the Windows driver foundation service.

Is this high ram usage because of a driver or does x64 take up quite a bit more of ram than x86?

64bit does need more ram. Minimum is 2gigs. svchost using 94Mb isnt unusual.

Ken

 

[Antman]

Stable responsive system with 4GB.

.

 

[whs]

I keep Windows Driver Foundation disabled because I had some other problem with it. Never had a problem without it.

 

[sup3rsprt]

Stable responsive system with 4GB.

Holy guacamole Antman!

I get Win7 x64 to run in less than 300MB. Barebones of course. Just enough stuff for gaming and browsing the net.

If you ever heard of blackviper than you know what I'm talking about. Except that my config is even more barebones than his.

 

[Antman]

I do not adjust anything. My system is highly repsonsive and mostly issue free. Any anomolies have been introduced while attempting to recreate problems posted on the forum.

No USB power issues. No large file copy problems drive to drive, net loc to net loc, or via HTTP or FTP. No RDP issues. No disappearring volumes. No sluggish menus.

No vanishing GUI elements. All monitors come online on demand. No sleep issues. No hibernation issues.

Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

My point - leave it alone. It works fine.

 

[chuckr]

I do not adjust anything. My system is highly repsonsive and mostly issue free. Any anomolies have been introduced while attempting to recreate problems posted on the forum.

No USB power issues. No large file copy problems drive to drive, net loc to net loc, or via HTTP or FTP. No RDP issues. No disappearring volumes. No sluggish menus.

No vanishing GUI elements. All monitors come online on demand. No sleep issues. No hibernation issues.

Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

My point - leave it alone. It works fine.

That's how mine runs, too. With 1 gig...

And, I boot XP from SD or USB anything.

What should I do to fix it ?

 

[H2SO4]

I do not adjust anything. My system is highly repsonsive and mostly issue free. Any anomolies have been introduced while attempting to recreate problems posted on the forum.

No USB power issues. No large file copy problems drive to drive, net loc to net loc, or via HTTP or FTP. No RDP issues. No disappearring volumes. No sluggish menus.

No vanishing GUI elements. All monitors come online on demand. No sleep issues. No hibernation issues.

Ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

My point - leave it alone. It works fine.

That's how mine runs, too. With 1 gig...

And, I boot XP from SD or USB anything.

What should I do to fix it ?

Spurn the combined wisdom of thousands of the cleverest people in the industry - the ones who wrote Windows and determined its default settings - and instead seek the guidance of one pimply-faced teenager who calls himself "Black Viper" as to what system components should be allowed to run and when

 

[Antman]

Acidic, acerbic - same thing?

Spot on.

 

[H2SO4]

Acidic, acerbic - same thing?

Spot on.

I'm not at my fluffiest today. Perhaps it's because the sky looked like this all morning: Sydney Blanketed By Red Dust

 

[chuckr]

Checked it out.

He's not a teenager.

But, no 'operating systems' experience either, let alone MS versions...

 

[Antman]

BV is not all that bad. He does make sufficient disclaimer and does provide some good homework. I think he is penalized for the success of his thoroughness. He has the definitive layman's site on the subject matter. I cannot fault him for how the work is misused.

I used to buy and sell copies of a certain Cookbook - years ago. I did not condone its content - I was just making a 200% markup.

 

[saketh321]

oh well i guess i gotta go the 32 bit way...

 

[ken9122]

Listen to Antman & H2SO4 stay with 64Bit and if you must add 2gb of memory.

Ken

 

[sup3rsprt]

Spurn the combined wisdom of thousands of the cleverest people in the industry - the ones who wrote Windows and determined its default settings

I personally don't need 70 services or 63 processes running, three quarters which I'll never use, that suck up system resources and present security risks.

For example, why is there services for Wireless enabled when I don't even have a wireless network adapter in my computer? IPv6 when my home network is IPv4? Windows Defender? UPnP? I don't need it. Things like that are pointless to me so I don't agree that the people who wrote Windows knows what's best.

Black Viper could be a pimple faced nerd for all I care. He's still cooler than Bill Gates, the guy who thought noone would ever need more than 640K of memory in their computer.

 

[Antman]

For example, why is there services for Wireless enabled when I don't even have a wireless network adapter in my computer? IPv6 when my home network is IPv4? Windows Defender? UPnP? I don't need it. Things like that are pointless to me so I don't agree that the people who wrote Windows knows what's best.

Black Viper could be a pimple faced nerd for all I care. He's still cooler than Bill Gates, the guy who thought noone would ever need more than 640K of memory in their computer.

Agreed. Bill Gates is an idiot. Good point.

It is much wiser to enable services that will not be needed than it is to disable services that will be needed.

Elevate your perspective.

 

[torrentg]

They make Windows for the average user. They know that computer techs and the type will go ahead and disable services they don't want. If something doesn't work, the same people that disabled services can usually figure out what the problem is. That's why there are services many people will never use auto enabled at default. Being Microsoft, it probably causes them to receive a lesser amount of support issue requests.

 

[H2SO4]

Spurn the combined wisdom of thousands of the cleverest people in the industry - the ones who wrote Windows and determined its default settings

I personally don't need 70 services or 63 processes running, three quarters which I'll never use, that suck up system resources and present security risks.

For example, why is there services for Wireless enabled when I don't even have a wireless network adapter in my computer? IPv6 when my home network is IPv4? Windows Defender? UPnP? I don't need it. Things like that are pointless to me so I don't agree that the people who wrote Windows knows what's best.

Black Viper could be a pimple faced nerd for all I care. He's still cooler than Bill Gates, the guy who thought noone would ever need more than 640K of memory in their computer.

I think one of the mods perhaps blew away my earlier response to you, if I had to guess because I used a mildly derogatory (but mostly harmless) noun for a generic hapless computer end-user. (Or maybe I'm going senile and I forgot to click "submit"... it's hard to be sure.)

Anyway, I wanted to say that my comment was made in jest and that no disrespect was meant

 

[chev65]

The advantages of disabling all those services is highly overrated. Little to no gain what so ever by doing it IMO. This fact has been discussed on many forums. The ones who think otherwise are just fooling themselfs or just being foolish.

 

[Antman]

I disable a few services, but not for performance related puposes.