Memory Usage - Vista 64-bit Ultimate

[Guest]

My system specs are as follows:

Athlon 64 X2 4200+
Asus M2N 32 SLi Deluxe Wireless Edition
2x512MB Corsair DDR667 RAM
Samsung Spinpoint 300GB SATA HDD
GeForce 7300GS 256MB

Since doing a clean install of Vista x64, I have found that the memory usage
is extremely high - it never seems to hover below 70% and is frequently
higher, resulting in the hard disk being thrashed! Is this down to the fact
that I just don't have enough memory to run the software at the moment?

Many thanks

Mark

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Mark,

Probably indexing, either disable it or wait until it slows on its own. A
clean install on a 40GB drive took roughly 3 days to slow on my test system.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

I had a problem similar to yours that took me days to debug. This problem
also cause stuttering audio.

My config is similar to yours - 64 bit Vista on AMD X2. The problem turned
out to be the RAID controller. I had previously separated my RAID mirrors so
I could have two boot partitions. However, I neglected to deactivate the
RAID controller in the BIOS. Thus, when I installed RC1, the RAID controller
was active and VISTA configured my SATA drives as SCSI drives.

Since I can't find a RAID driver for my VIA chipset, I turned off RAID in
the BIOS and did a clean install. Voila - drives came up as SATA rather than
SCSI, and memory and disk thrashing issues vanished.

Cheers!

 

[Guest]

I have 1gb of memory and my usage is hovering about 43-47%. Have only
installed 2 days ago. Thought this was a bit high but reading other posts
this seems quite normal. Like xp, vista will use as much memory as it can.

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for your replies. I'll check to see how I've got my drives
configured in the BIOS. Certainly I noticed an exclamation mark next to the
RAID controller in Control Panel, so I'll check whether this is enabled in
the BIOS.

I can certainly understand that indexing would put a strain on the system.
As I do a lot of processor/memory intensive work (such as live recording,
music editing etc)., I'll put some more memory in it to try to relieve some
of the strain it's obviously under at the moment!

 

[Mark D. VandenBerg]

Many thanks for your replies. I'll check to see how I've got my drives
configured in the BIOS. Certainly I noticed an exclamation mark next to
the
RAID controller in Control Panel, so I'll check whether this is enabled in
the BIOS.

I can certainly understand that indexing would put a strain on the system.
As I do a lot of processor/memory intensive work (such as live recording,
music editing etc)., I'll put some more memory in it to try to relieve
some
of the strain it's obviously under at the moment!

Wise, since Ultimate needs a minimum of 1 GB of RAM. I think 2GB is going
to be fairly standard, and high end systems will start with 4GB.