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    78% memory usage?? What's going on?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Slaughterhouse, Feb 7, 2009.

  1. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    Ok I'm a little worried. All I'm doing right now is my physics homework in one Firefox tab and I got another tab open for NBR. I'm also downloading the F.E.A.R. 2 demo. Nothing else is open right now and no unusual background services are running but my memory usage is 78%!!! I just did a clean install a few days ago as well.

    Is this because of the download? Or is something wrong here?
     

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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Whats using the most RAM in processes?

    Also, general quickie answer is "Over time, Vista's Supercache learns which programs you commonly use, and pre-emptively loads them into unused RAM." (taken from the first page in google).

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    (unless you disabled it of course)
     
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  3. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    It looks like it's Firefox with 383,000 K. I've had Firefox up at 300,000 or so before and my memory usage was only like 42% then. It's usually at 32% or so.

    Edit: Ok that was just weird. My memory usage just jumped to 100% and then dropped to 19%, below it's normal value. I'm literally not doing anything right now.
     
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I've got 1GB ram, only got an IE window open. (49% Physical Memory Usage)
     
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  5. gary_hendricks

    gary_hendricks Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,
    Same problem for me sometimes when I am working on 2-3 tabs, Can any one please help me.
     
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    entropy.cz Notebook Evangelist

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    you guys have obviously different issues (one uses IE, other Firefox). look into your task manager (can be open via righclick on your taksbar), switch to the processes tab, and look which process eats most % of CPU.

    if everyone's getting this issue when opening NBR, then there may be some corrupted flash file (banner, ..) on the site causing this, but i'm guessing only..
     
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  7. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    Three words: Sysinternals Process Explorer. Much better than Task Manager at answering such questions.

    Gary
     
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    Jedi007 Notebook Evangelist

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    Can you take a screenshot of your process list sorted by mem usage?
     
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  9. Slaughterhouse

    Slaughterhouse Knock 'em out!

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    I would but I can't replicate the problem again. That was so strange.
     
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  10. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    One of the NBR flash ads has a resource leak.
     
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  11. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Oooh! I love resource leaks! :D
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  12. ratchetnclank

    ratchetnclank Notebook Deity

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    Use ad block :)
     
    ratchetnclank, Feb 9, 2009
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