Memory in use

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Ramesh

HI,

When I boot up my system, the Task manager says the commit charge shows
around 240MB with all my usual applications up and running say for a couple
of hours. But as I keep working, I find this number reaches more than 500MB
and then my system becomes very slow. I have 512MB on my laptop and also
hibernate often, rather when I want to switch off my system. The only way I
resolve this, is by restarting the system.

Is this normal? I installed a program called Cacheman which claims to
recover unused memory, but I am not sure this is actually making a
difference.

Any suggestions please?
 
Ramesh said:
HI,

When I boot up my system, the Task manager says the commit charge shows
around 240MB with all my usual applications up and running say for a couple
of hours. But as I keep working, I find this number reaches more than 500MB
and then my system becomes very slow. I have 512MB on my laptop and also
hibernate often, rather when I want to switch off my system. The only way I
resolve this, is by restarting the system.

Is this normal? I installed a program called Cacheman which claims to
recover unused memory, but I am not sure this is actually making a
difference.

Any suggestions please?
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First suggestion is to ditch Cacheman. It is pure unadulterated
crapware that is totally incapable of performing any beneficial
function for any computer under any circumstances.

When you start up the computer and have your normal set of
applications loaded bring up Task Manager. Make note of the total
Commit Charge on the Performance tab and then go to the Processes tab.
Click twice on the Mem Usage column header to sort the list in
descending order based on memory usage. Make note of the 6 to 10
processes at the top of the list and the memory usage for each of
them. Also make note of the total processes.

When the system has started to bog down and the commit charge is at or
near 500 mb go back into Task Manager and take another look at the
process memory usage. Compare the top usage processes with the first
list and see what the differences are. That should tell you what is
going on in terms of additional processes using large amounts of
memory and/or processes showing a huge increase in their memory usage.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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has never been in bed with a mosquito."
 
Thanks Ron for your detailed directions.

I have been doing that and what I have seen is that a couple of applications
do increase in their mem usage, but nothing close to the tune of 200MB! eg,
Outlook which starts with 20MB maybe reaches max 35MB .. IE which starts
with 10MB maybe reach upto 60MB depending on number of pages I opened. But
there is no other significant difference in the numbers on that list.
Further still even if I close all IE windows and Outlook process, commit
charge at the most drops to 400MB plus. Still way above where I started.

I scan the system regularly with Adaware and Spybot. I also use Kerio
Firewall and AVG Antivirus.

Hope I have been able to give you a clearer picture now.

Thanks for your support.

Ramesh
 
disable hibernate function , clean up your pc of unused programs , go to
msconfig tool under run and choose the start up programs tab disable any
start up program that you want, run your updated av twice one in safe mode
and one in normal mode as well as your antispyware. if all this fails try to
buy more memory go up with at least 1022, diuble your memory and i will
assure that it will be a major change in the performance of your system. i
hope this help and good luck:)
 
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