Vista eats RAM and performs extremely slow

[Guest]

I have read all the previous discussions on RAM eating and how it is good,
but procexp shows that after win.loading it consumes around 800Mb RAM and in
2-3 minutes gets up to 1.4Gb (I guess win. vista also using a kind of page
file. I have 1Gb DDR2 on my laptop, vista home edition).
I turned off almoust all applications except some microsoft and intel. But
nothing changed, vista performs extremenly slow. Restore sys to previous
point also did not help.
That I am going to try is to turn off Superfetch...
Could any one propose something?
Thanks!

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Have you done a disk clean up lately, deleted any backed up System Restore
Points?

 

[Guest]

There was only one system restore point and I used that for backup, but that
had no effect. I turned off Superfetch, but also no effect. In 5 minutes
after loading vista eats 1.7Gb and extremely slow.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

1gb RAM is not enough for Vista. You will benefit greatly by doubling the
RAM..

 

[f/fgeorge]

Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.comAdd 1 gig more memory for a total of 2 gig. Windows uses memory to
make its own version of an L2 cache. That means that it caches
harddrive locations of files to make retrieving them faster. You
cannot turn this off and it eats memory like it is going out of style.
MS thinks that free memory is wasted memory/money.

 

[f/fgeorge]

Add 1 gig more memory for a total of 2 gig. Windows uses memory to
make its own version of an L2 cache. That means that it caches
harddrive locations of files to make retrieving them faster. You
cannot turn this off and it eats memory like it is going out of style.
MS thinks that free memory is wasted memory/money.

Sorry forgot to say that Vista will release memory as programs load so
that is not an issue. Just up the memory to 2 gig and you will be much
happier.

 

[Guest]

Dear Mike Hall,
I have read some posts there users reported that 1Gb RAM was enougth for
them , and my laptop worked much better last days, so I conclude that there
is some bug... since that time I changed nothing, probably, win.updates were
downloaded...

 

[Guest]

Could it be a troyan, who is siting on process level and eating memory? I
scanned comp with ad-aware2007 but found nothing, that is why I think it
operates on process level. I consed behaviour of my vista to be really
unnormal, because 2 day ago it was ok for win.vista to have 1Gb RAM.
Thanks for reply!

 

[Xenomorph]

Performance of Vista relies on the amount and speed of RAM, speed of CPU
(NOT necessarily MHz/GHz. A new 1.6 GHz Intel Core CPU blows away an old 2.4
GHz Celeron CPU), speed of video card if using Aero 3D, and speed of hard
drive (RPMs, cache, seek/access time, etc).

1 Gig of RAM is a bit low for Vista. Vista works better with 2 Gigs of RAM
or more.

Vista will load a lot of things into memory for caching purposes. It is
perfectly normal for it to try to consume an entire gig of RAM just caching
things.

 

[Mike Hall - MVP]

A local client of mine recently purchased a laptop and the vendor told my
client that 1gb was enough. The client complains of slow starting and
sluggish performance doing some things, and this is a new laptop with
nothing added and much of the Acer crap removed.

Your laptop has only 1gb, some of which will go straight to video. You may
only be starting with 768mb which is simply not enough. There will be a
great reliance on virtual memory.

Vista works way better with 2gb RAM.

 

[Guest]

Currently vista consumes more than just RAM, as I wrote after approx 5
minutes it uses 1.6 Gb (I have 1Gb DDR2), I think it is unnormal.
But thanks for reply!

 

[R. McCarty]

1.6 Gigabytes of memory usage is too high for a normal Vista setup.
You either have an abnormal service mapping or a background type
of service that is "Leaking" memory.
I have a Vista VPC that is allocated 1.0 Gigabytes of RAM and even
with AV/Firewall and a few other 3rd-party services uses only 478
Megabytes of RAM and performs very well.
You really need to use the Reliability and Performance monitor and
add memory counters to try and analyze the system in detail.

 

[Guest]

1gb RAM is not enough for Vista. You will benefit greatly by doubling the
RAM..

I totally disagree with you!!!
I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium since 30 January with 768MB of RAM with
Aero enabled on a Geforce 6200 256MB AGP and everything runs great! I use
every type of application without performances problems. I'm not a gamer.