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09-28-2006, 05:59 PM
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My memory usage seems huge!
Pentium 4, 80G HD (60+ available), 1G RAM, XP Home. Programs running: ewido, NOD32, Spy Sweeper, ZoneAlarm Pro, PopTray and Weather Pulse. After reboot, processes are reasonable for 20 minutes or so e.g. explorer.exe around 17K, ewido 7K. Then they go off the charts: explorer 60+K, ewido 70K, Weather Pulse from 9K to 50K. I have excellent malware protection and have scanned with all my apps and no malware is ever detected. I thought it might happen after I opened browsers, however, I proved that theory was incorrect by monitoring after a reboot and the memory usage went up before opening any! Any theories what is causing these memory leaks? Thank You!
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09-28-2006, 06:53 PM
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What does it show you in task manager processes tab. Just watch that for a bit and that should show you what process is doing it.
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09-29-2006, 07:09 AM
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Is this memory usage causing problems? It's quite normal for processes to use memory.
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09-29-2006, 03:47 PM
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No problems, everything functions normally. It is just that when I view my processes at work (Windows 2000, and admittedly not as many apps open) they are using far less memory. Thank You!
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09-30-2006, 07:56 AM
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Windows does a pretty good job of adjusting ram usage dependent on the amount of physical ram installed. I'm betting your work computer has a lot less ram than your home machine and it's just using the pagefile more.
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09-30-2006, 10:53 AM
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Far, far less, in fact I'm getting a new work pc. Perhaps my apps need all this ram and I should quit worrying about it!
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09-30-2006, 12:53 PM
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They don't NEED all that ram, but it's there so it's USING it for better performance. If you put 2 gigs in there I bet they eat even more then they do now!
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09-30-2006, 08:46 PM
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Thank you for the responses, I've learned something new!
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