General Discussions

**-JJ-** · 07-18-2006, 12:45 AM

I upgraded my notebook RAM to 2 gigs today. Now I know most people are going to say who needs 2 gigs of RAM? I know that's a lot of RAM but seriously.. 95 % of the programs that run in the background are using at least 50000 k each which is not normal.

- I've checked for viruses, grayware, malware, etc.
- I've ran Spyware checks
- I have cleaned out cache, registry, etc etc.

I have yet to defrag yet, but I just reconfigured my machine, so what could be the problem?

My commit charge is around 500 M and out of the 2 gigs I have like 800 MB free I believe. I know that's a lot but Memory Usage of 95 % of my programs ranges from 105,000 K down to 30,000 K. Theres a bunch of 60,000 and 65,000's in there also.

Not sure why the RAM is being eaten up so much.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

-JJ-

**beley** · 07-18-2006, 12:49 PM

Defrag is a joke... doesnt' really cause many performance issues these days.

Have you looked at your running programs (by ctrl-alt-delete and looking at task manager) to see which ones are eating all the memory?

What are they?

Are they programs you have to have running? I have a lot of programs running, but they shouldn't be that resource intensive unless you're compiling video in the background or something. Most "background" apps only take a few megs a piece. Granted that can add up, but not to 2 GB!

**imported_sji2671** · 07-18-2006, 04:58 PM

I have 2 gig of ram which is often around 35%.
Like Beley said if your eating up 95% then ctrl+del and see what programs are running and let us know the culprits.

**-JJ-** · 07-18-2006, 05:28 PM

aim.exe is using 78,000 K, explorer.exe is using 70,000 K, Itunes.exe is using 66,000 K, IE is using 40,000 K. That's a lot haha.

-JJ-

**Lucas3677** · 07-18-2006, 05:34 PM

My computer has 768MB of RAM and it flies without a problem. I suggest you do an virus and spyware scan on your laptop or if that doesn't work, just format your computer and reinstall. :P

**-JJ-** · 07-18-2006, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucas

My computer has 768MB of RAM and it flies without a problem. I suggest you do an virus and spyware scan on your laptop or if that doesn't work, just format your computer and reinstall. :P

Did it already. My computer flies. There is over 500,000 left of RAM, I just want to know why all of these programs are eating it up so fast.

-JJ-

**sarahk** · 07-18-2006, 05:41 PM

I suffer too. A good pentium 4 with 1gig of RAM.

If I run outlook, firefox, zend, smartftp and windows explorer (file management) I might be able to happily trundle away all day but then again it might blow out my "tiny" firewall and AVG virus protection, lock down all menus, refuse to open even .txt files with notepad.exe and require a reboot. Uptime varies from 10 minutes to 10 hours and is soooo frustrating.

In the background I have skype and because I'll have a tab with gmail it's also got that IM tool running via the browser.

Adaware, Spybot and HijackThis all come back saying the system is ticketyboo.

I've dropped most of the firefox extensions including session saver but I refuse to stop using it. I'd rather keep rebooting.

But if anyone has any ideas I'll be very interested!!!

**Phoenix11** · 07-19-2006, 05:34 PM

Firefox is absolutely terrible at handling memory leakages. I hope that they fix this by the final release of 2.0 as it is the only thing affecting their browser. Until then try using a light-weight browser like Opera.

**imported_AMDWarrior** · 07-19-2006, 05:36 PM

Memory leak, get away from firefox, abd like phoneix said try opera or something lightweight, if your still having problems, build a new system, hehe or I cant help ya..

**imported_Bob** · 07-19-2006, 05:38 PM

Firefox is still good wether it does that or not.. and im sure it doesnt eat up that much.... well i use FF and IE so i woulkdnt know

**BamaStangGuy** · 07-19-2006, 07:57 PM

format c: and reinstall windows lol

I have 1.25GB in my 1.4 Celeron M Inspiron 1200 and I never ever break into the page file. I constantly run Firefox, Thunderbird, a music player ftp program and other tools to manage my web sites. Something is goofy with one of your programs or your windows to me.

Firefox never eats memory like it does some for me. If you are having that many problems try the new 2.0 Beta 1 and see how that fairs.

**beley** · 07-19-2006, 08:01 PM

Yeah, I'm on a Mac now, but when I had a PC laptop I had a 2.0 Ghz P4 mobile with 1GB of RAM. I'd keep Firefox, IE, Outlook, Photoshop, PHPEdit, Filezilla, Trillian, a half dozen things in my system tray running all the time.

And that was just standard -- sometimes I'd add to that Illustrator, InDesign or Acrobat Professional (or all three at the same time) and no sweat.

Something's clearly going on under the surface besides just memory hogging programs. I'm thinking you've got some spyware or your box has been hacked and is hosting some kind of warez server.

**pcdoc** · 07-20-2006, 08:54 AM

Start | Run | msconfig | Startup

look at the processes that load upon startup (boot)

I won't go further, you need to do some research before diddling around with that tab.