Using 900Mb of memory on stand-by.

Hey guys so I have a problem here. I'm using 890 to 990 mb of memory on my standby. I check to see why im using so much memory. But I can't find it. Help is appreciated.

 

Oh by the way guys. I tried turning off my anti-virus but it does not matter =/

 

its your windows background processes.
you can turn those off in msconfig. also running gamebooster helps if your not very computer savy.
everything you need to get ram usage down is in msconfig.

 

Thats decent. My old M11x r2 was using 1.3gb in standby and that was with a lot disabled... i'd be happy with anything <1gb

 

i idle at about 375-435mb on my R1

 

i'm jealous

 

lol =P i turn almost every windows service off except aero.

 

Hmm okay.... And I need my ram upgrade really soon =/. I'm trying to play CPU kinda games and it really gets slow sometimes.

 

uummm, a ram upgrade wont help lol. oh and by the way, your cpu is running at 1.6ghz, not 1.73. unless you pin modded.

 

Why a memory upgrade won't help?

 

you can use Glary Utilities - Award Winning System Optimizer and Registry Cleaner | Glarysoft is a nice and free sofware " It offers numerous powerful and easy-to-use system tools and utilities to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC."

and YES there's a huge ammount of proccess than make slowdown your system look and the "Starup" entries to see what app are running when windows star that maybe help too

another good app is cCleaner http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

cheers!

 

i manually do all of that myself. i also dont use an antivirus. there more trouble then there worth. oh and ive been using Ccleaner for years haha

 

I got a question to ask:what OS are you using right now,XP or 7?
If you are running XP(if it's even possible) and uses 8XX-9XX MB of memory on idle,you have some great trouble.

But if you are running 7...I'm really jealous lol

Oh and of course RAM won't help much in gaming performance.It only helps in general usages and has OMGTHATSREALLYLITTLE effect on gaming performance(unless you have less than 2GB which in this case you aren't)

Instead of RAM upgrade,you should consider a GPU overclock or even a CPU-pinmodding.

 

jealous of 900mb?
try idling at less then 400mb in windows 7 i usualy dont go over that.

 

what's wrong with having 900mb on standby? ..

 

Actually I'm not really jealous.I can tolerate with a system using 2.2GB of RAM on idle(Vista Ultimate 64bit with 6GB RAM)

 

Excess memory use only really matters if your system starts using your page file. Paging memory to disk is an overhead (slightly less if using an SSD) you can and should do without.

In the old days, carefully managed paging was just part of managing RAM on a midrange OS. But with the reduction in the price of RAM, it's not so much the case now.

By disabling pre-loading applications into memory, only means you're extending start-up times for those apps. People mostly only disable pre-installing applications if they don't have the physical memory.

However, now with Hybrid HDD/SSD and SSD pre-loading apps into memory for fast start-up is becoming less important.

I idle at around 1.3GB(4GB RAM installed) on my M11xR1, mind you I have Apache server, MySQL server, PHP, Java, Perl and the list goes on.

I've never seem memory exceed 3GB, unless I'm running a couple of VM's which use approx 1GB RAM each.

I have a WinXP Toshiba Portege 3110CT 'netbook' which idles at 80MB RAM with Avast anti-virus included. The reason for this is that, the 'netbook' concerned, only has 192MB physical RAM.

 

I'm using windows 7. I was actually considering buying an SDD but then Ill have to make a hole new installation and well I'm pretty much a newbie doing that. I don't even know where to start =/ . Thanks Nand@ Ill try using that program. I also have cCleaner its prettyyyy good

 

I don't see the issue with having 900mb of memory usage when going into standby.

It's only going to take a few seconds longer to write to the hard drive, and as long as your not going over the amount of ram you have and hitting the page file, you won't have any performance hit's either.

 

How the fudge cake? My system uses 1.4 GB on standby

 

my system is very optimized. 31 processes on idle. and i dont run anti virus.

 

Your not alone Alienonions, i start off at 1.5GB good thing I have 8GB of ram O_O i try to lower it below 1GB can't do it lolz