dave
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Re: [XP Home] high commit charge prob
OK, so what we know is that your system's aggregate vm usage increases by about 800MB for a short while, and then returns to normal.
(The lousy-response part is explained by assuming your system is paging away like crazy).
So, the problem to reduces to figuring out what will cause this.
800MB is a lot of data. My guess is that something's sucking in a large file. For example, you'd get this sort of behaviour if you tried to edit a half-a-gigabyte file in Notepad (yes, I've done it) or some other editor.
800MB is a little larger than a CD-ROM. Not sharing any CDs, are you?
One approach that may work is to use Performance Monitor (Start->Programs->Admin Tools->Performance Monitor) to track memory usage versus process, so you can see what suddenly used a lot of memory. I haven't actually done this myself, so can't offer a detailed recipe. |
