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    UX32VD Memory Consumption

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Zybex, Nov 6, 2012.

  1. Zybex

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    Hello everyone,

    I bought an Asus UX32VD for about 1 month, and given the price it costs, I'm very satisfied with the quality of this ultrabook. I have not had any problems with it, so far, but I have a question about the RAM consumption... when I start Windows7, or when the computer is on idle state, is usually consuming between 3.0Gb and 3.5Gb, and I do not understand the reason of this.
    I uninstalled some applications from Asus and disabled the startup of those that did not interest me, but I still have these values​​.
    In Task Manager, the process that consumes more is "dwm.exe", which is the Desktop Window Manager, with only 40Mb.
    What I want to ask is if anyone has noticed this situation, or if the problem is mine, and the best I have to do is to install a clean Windows7 (without the recovery partition)?

    Thank you!

    ---- UX32VD
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    Intel Core i5-3317U
    10Gb RAM
    320Gb HDD + 24Gb SSD
     
    Zybex, Nov 6, 2012
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    The reason for this consumption could be the SuperFetch technology?
     
    Zybex, Nov 8, 2012
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  3. menghao

    menghao Notebook Guru

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    Zybex is right , as long as superfetch is activated, it will take up the free ram to cache the program if I'm not mistaken.
    try to disable the superfetch, you will get a lot of free ram.
     
    menghao, Nov 12, 2012
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  4. gdansk

    gdansk Notebook Deity

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    Sure can. However, cached ram is better for general responsiveness. Cached ram should be seen as "free" ram. The least recently used programs are kicked out of the cache when more memory is required. Frequently used programs, however, will stay in the cache allowing very fast memory allocation.
     
    gdansk, Nov 12, 2012
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