Topic '[WIN7] 70% of RAM being used' in forum 'Microsoft Help' - dslreports.com

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:42:52 EDT

OZO posted : Similar story happens with visiting SHOUTcast Radio and listening some radio station there. Chromium (Iron) takes more and more memory until you have to close it... :(
--
Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:03:19 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : Sounds like chrome isn't reining in it's cache, or the plugins/extensions are not given any memory boundaries. That would have actually been an interesting internal task manager screenshot from chrome.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 06:17:00 EDT

anon posted : I myself found that just leaving a Facebook page open for 24 hours, Chrome will eventually consume more than 3X the available physical RAM in the system. I have a laptop with 512MB RAM that I use in the kitchen for browsing. It becomes impossible to use after about an hour. After taking 8 minutes to launch Task Manager, I see that Chrome is using 1.7GB of memory! 512MB RAM, plus virtual memory overflow. The HDD LED never goes out--drive is swapping 24 hours a day. Shut down Chrome, load a page like DSLReports, and memory usage stays relatively flat at a couple hundred MB. Pages like Facebook are doing something nefarious with all that memory usage.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:09:22 EDT

Cartel posted : I was thinking I'd see a huge hardware reserved but it looks like some programs are using the ram.
try this »technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysi···bb896653

and show a screen shot

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:00:05 EDT

jangona posted : does this help?

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:49:12 EDT

jangona posted : here it is

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:34:06 EDT

Cartel posted : Please show this part

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:41:20 EDT

jangona posted : i just ran the HP support assistant, and did a test on the graphics/display. I got the error that is indicated in the attached photo, not sure if this is the cause of my problem, and if there's a way to fix it.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:32:11 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : It's not wrong.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:00:39 EDT

OZO posted : I think there is something wrong with your Chrome browser. For example, from your picture I see that this BBR discussion thread (only one tab, not including browser itself) takes 234 MiB from your computer. In my case Chromium (Chrome) browser the very same thread takes 72 MiB total (including browser itself, not just one tab, as yours):

[att=1]
--
Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

Chromium - memory usage

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:30:16 EDT

jangona posted : does this help?

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:26:46 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : Even with that usage which can seem excessive like the flash plugin using 125MB of memory, it's nowhere near the estimated 3GB you were talking about. You can monitor what it's using in the resource monitor, but also realize that chrome runs each page as a separate instance.

I don't tend to run a ton of pages at the same time, and even when I do with Firefox I restrict which sites use javascript and flash so I don't have some background pages constantly reloading flash ads wasting resources.
--
I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires- Susan B. Anthony
Yesterday we obeyed kings, and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth- Kahlil G.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:15:27 EDT

dave posted : If you're oversubscribed on memory, you'll be executing a lot of paging I/O, which could be a cause of slowness. The measure of that is the hard fault rate, which is one of the graphs on the resource monitor page posted by BlitzenZeus . What's yours?

(A few per second, or an occasional blip, is not bad. What is bad is large continuous fault rates)

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:14:20 EDT

jangona posted : got it

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:11:48 EDT

jangona posted : i'm not seeing chrome task manager... i have my tabs at the top of the browser

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:08:48 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : You're still assuming the entire problem is chrome all by itself. What extensions, and plugins were running.... Again you can see it's memory usage per page, and extension in chromes own task manager. Chrome also runs sandboxed so that's another layer, and when it comes to things like exploits in popular plugins like flash it can help prevent them from escaping.

Use chrome again, right click at the top, and open the task manager.... Also go into the plugins enabled, and what extensions are enabled, of which some of both might have been installed without permission. Even logitech software might throw yet another extension in chrome.
--
I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires- Susan B. Anthony
Yesterday we obeyed kings, and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth- Kahlil G.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:53:42 EDT

jangona posted : but my problem is the system is lagging, i'm assuming because it only has a little memory left to play with. but the thing has 6 gb, isnt that enough?

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:50:36 EDT

dave posted :

said by jangona:

yea, that's what i was thinking. the reason i started with chrome was because i was told it was faster than other browsers...

As a general rule, you get 'faster' by designing to use more memory. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%E2%8···tradeoff That's not an inviolate rule, of course, but it's still a good rule of thumb.

The other thing, of course, is that unused memory is wasted memory.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:34:45 EDT

darcilicious posted : But typically, if you have more memory then aren't the apps and the OS going to make more use of it??
--
♬ Dragon of good fortune struggles with the trickster Fox ♬

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:07:59 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : Even with eight tabs open for Chrome to use the amount of memory you're talking about there would have to be something else. Chrome has their own basic built in task manager to show how much it's using per page, and extension.

On a system with 2GB of ram I would still have free memory with tabs open, and running other applications.
--
I distrust those people who know so well what god wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires- Susan B. Anthony
Yesterday we obeyed kings, and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to the truth- Kahlil G.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:56:33 EDT

jangona posted : yea, that's what i was thinking. the reason i started with chrome was because i was told it was faster than other browsers...

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:43:31 EDT

OZO posted :

said by jangona:

yea, i realized that after... i closed chrome, and got this: it showed the memory usage dropped from almost 80% to 35%

Taking into consideration that computer has 6GB of RAM, what a memory hog that Chrome is... :(
--
Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:32:18 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : I wouldn't blame chrome entirely, but many pages will use flash. If you use a selective flash block that might help excessive memory usage from flash content like useless ads.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:26:36 EDT

jangona posted : yea, i realized that after... i closed chrome, and got this: it showed the memory usage dropped from almost 80% to 35%

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:20:31 EDT

BlitzenZeus posted : That's processor usage, not memory. They are looking for something closer to this.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:18:51 EDT

OZO posted : If you close your Chrome browser, all related processes are gone? Or some still running... What's the memory usage of those processes?
--
Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:13:40 EDT

jangona posted : Is this ok?

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:00:33 EDT

Cartel posted : Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Performance Information and Tools\Advanced Tools

resource monitor.
Please show screen print of the memory tab.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:55:48 EDT

jangona posted : i just took a closer look at the processes running. i currently have chrome open, with 8 tabs open. but when i look at the processes, it shows references to chrome over 30 times. i dont know why that is happening

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:43:40 EDT

Gem posted : Post images and let us see what's happening?

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:32:38 EDT

jangona posted : ok, its still showing using 79% of available memory. i'm the only user on the machine.

Re: [WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:16:56 EDT

OZO posted : Check memory usage in Task Manager's Processes tab. Go to View | Select Columns... and select Memory Usage, Virtual Memory Size. Then make sure that the option Show processes from all users is checked at the bottom.
--
Keep it simple, it'll become complex by itself...

[WIN7] 70% of RAM being used

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:08:25 EDT

jangona posted : My HP desktop has 6gb RAM, but my basic use is showing i'm using 70% and more of it. I checked my task manager, and it shows: total physical memory: 5885, cached is 1488, available 1415, and free 19.

I'm using chrome browser, windows live mail, and skype. Those are my only open programs. I'm also using a logitech wireless desktop (keyboard & mouse)

the computer itself lags considerably, i can be typing, and then iit freezes momentarily and then jumps. does the same with the mouse.

also, when playing a game on facebook, the animation freezes, and then starts again.

is there a free RAM cleaning program I can use? I use Microsoft security essentials, and ran malware bytes as well, both came out with no issues.