Memory growing endlessly

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I boot up and slowly the memory commit charge grow and grow and grow until it
reach the paging file limits... And there is nothing running, no software
open!! Strangely, in Task Manager/Processes the memory usage total is
normal!! The computer is terribly slow and suddenly "Out of memory/paging
file"....
Anyone can help me?

thx
 
Luc

How much RAM memory?Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task
Manager and click the Performance Tab. Under Commit
Charge what is the Total, the Limit and the Peak?

How large is your hard drive and how much free space?

What are your anti-virus and anti-spyware arrangements?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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512MB
total 1511MB
limit 1511MB
peak 1511MB

hard drive: 19gb, free 11gb
antivirus: norton corporate edition V10
anti-spy: no anti-spyware but one is incorporated with Norton 10

The commit charge get full, 5 minutes after boot-up.

thx for your help
 
Luc said:
I boot up and slowly the memory commit charge grow and grow and grow until it
reach the paging file limits... And there is nothing running, no software
open!! Strangely, in Task Manager/Processes the memory usage total is
normal!! The computer is terribly slow and suddenly "Out of memory/paging
file"....
Anyone can help me?
Click to expand...


What do you mean by "the memory usage total"? Are you talking about the Performance tab?

Open the Task Manager and click the Processes tab. Select View->Select Columns and check Memory Usage, Peak Memory Usage, and
Virtual Memory Size. Now sort the list of processes according to memory usage by clicking the Mem Usage column heading and scroll
to the end to see what the largest one is. Are there one or more processes that have a lot of memory? Repeat for the VM Size and
Peak Memory Usage columns.

Did you find anything to explain what is using up all your memory? If so, what? If not, then something else is going on. Check to
see if you have a rootkit on your system (there's a few rootkit checkers but none are foolproof yet.) Also, try checking for
malware with things like SpyBot, AdAware, CWShredder, HiJackThis, BHODemon, etc.

How many processes are running?
 
Sounds like a virus to me that's replicating itself in memory.

You need to run a good free anti-virus software such a AVG free. Also run
Spybot search and destroy and Adaware both are free.

If you don't have a firewall installed and running at least run the Windows
firewall. Or get and run Zone Alarm Free.

Reboot after each run to see if you got it.

Good luck and Regards.
 
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