Widnows Vista memory problem

Hello,

I have a problem with my Vista Ultimate 64 bit. It starts to fill up the memory up to 100 %, even if I am not doing anytihng special. When I boot computer it uses 27 % then I start firefox, anf it uses about 34 % of the physical memory. I let the computer on to download and after 10 hours without being touched the it uses 80-100%. How can I stop this?

I made print screen of the task manager.

PL

 

That's normal, that's part of how it loads programs faster, it pre-caches everything into ram, then frees ram up as you need it.

 

Yes, but at 100 % still, the computer is unusable and besides that i stopped the superfetch.

And if it is normal that how do I free the memory without restart?

PL

 

Can you upload a screenshot of processes, and click on the Memory tab once or twice, to get all processes listed in decreasing order of memory usage.

 

the same issue, but only during adobe cs3 and encarta 2009 installation. RAM went up 100%, HANG. unusable. Forced shutdown by pressing the power key.

Thing is, after some installations, my machine would use up to 98% RAM during installation. but afterwards its stuck at 98%.

if CPU goes into a full throttle=LAGS
if RAM=Freezes.

but it wuz just during installing heavy programs, afterwards the RAM became sane again.

 

Check "Show Processes from all Users", and click on "Memory (Private Working Set)" once or twice to get the memoy hogging processes at the top, and upload a screenshot of that if possible.

Also when the memory usage is high, and you feel you've not done anything.
Run Orthos > Blend Test. Then Stop after about 1min. (Run taskmgr (performance window))

If the memory had been cached and all, you'll see alot of free memory in taskmgr (performance), and a small amount of memory cached. (Thats how you can free the cached memory)

Keep an eye on taskmgr for the next 5mins and you'll see all the free memory getting cached again. Vista works that way, irrespective of Superfetch.

EDIT: NBR keeps choking ?!

 

Hello,

I attached a picture before the test. After the test it went to 57 %. So it seems that in order to free the memory I just have to srtat dome program that uses a lot and it will free the memeroy for a couple hours.

It is chaching every available memory. This is stupid It runs very bad when all memory is full and the hdd works like crazy. Is there a way to disable this caching? And what is it caching ? I get no benefit from doing that?


I had some problem with internet and I clicked too many times, this is why it posted two times.

PL

 

Well, it is caching. Vista does it in a different way than XP. It doesn't let the unused memory go to waste.
That Orthos thing I told you is not basically a solution to the Vista RAM usage.

I don't know much about it, but I have 4GB installed and 0MB free, and when I'll run a memory intensive task, Vista will free up that memory and it will be allocated to that program. Vista does something with the memory behind-the-scenes. I guess somebody else might be able to explain it well.

If your system is buggy, try doing a clean install. Your HDD specs are good, so something else might be causing the lags/bugginess.

 

When the memory is full, and i try to use some program I guess it takes a few seconds to free some, and in this time is using the pagefile which makes the hdd to blink. After the programs are starting to run there is no more problem after they get the ram they need it.

PL