Program need to look for memory leaks

the_syco

Program need to look for memory leaks. Currently 3.44GB of RAM being used, only have Opera open with only this page open. Task Manager says that opera.exe is using 209MB's (also the program using the most RAM). A reboot solves it, but it just builds up again, and the machine goes slow. Virus scan is ran daily.

RAM usage now at 3.54GB, and climbing
CPU usage somewhere between 1% and 4%

H/W specs in my sig. Windows 64bit.

PogMoThoin

Windows Superfetch?
Basically Windows guesses what it thinks You might need and loads it into ram. There's no point in having lots of empty ram, unless You're getting out of memory errors I wouldn't worry about it, although 3.5Gb is lots, maybe its caching a game.

lmimmfn

^^ Agreed, chances are its Superfetch

If youre using windows Vista or 7 you can see whats using ram using TaskManager/Performance/Resource manager, that will show everything except what superfetch uses( as far as i remember ive it turned off ).

Also check Task Manager/Performance and for Physical memory what is Cached

the_syco

lmimmfn wrote: »

Also check Task Manager/Performance and for Physical memory what is Cached

Physical Memory (MB)
Total 4094
Cached 464
Available 464
Free 50

Kernal Memory (MB)
Paged 234
Nonpaged 2657

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I don't run anything regularly. System is very slow because of the usage. It's now at 3.47GB. In about 2 hours, the computer was doing nothing (I was getting pizza), so I've no idea what is causing this. LANing at the weekend, so want to get this sorted before then.

the_syco

Applied http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=979444&kbln=en-us as some people have found this to fix a problem with the kernal memory.

Kernal Memory Paged is now 266MB

PogMoThoin

You've prob not got time but my advise is to reinstall.

Then when You've a fresh install with all drivers, updates and basic software, move Your documents, music and pics etc to another drive so Your c drive is just Windows. Defrag the c drive, then get a good imaging utility like Acronis so You can make an image of that fresh install to save somewhere to reinstall from in minutes. I can reinstall with all drivers and updates in less than 10mins All my games get installed on another drive and all work by just sending a shortcut back to the desktop. I reinstall from image every few months to keep my OS snappy and do a full install with the release of a new OS or service pack, I'll make a new image when Win 7 service pack 1 gets released

lmimmfn

the_syco wrote: »

Physical Memory (MB)
Total 4094
Cached 464
Available 464
Free 50

Kernal Memory (MB)
Paged 234
Nonpaged 2657

=-=

I don't run anything regularly. System is very slow because of the usage. It's now at 3.47GB. In about 2 hours, the computer was doing nothing (I was getting pizza), so I've no idea what is causing this. LANing at the weekend, so want to get this sorted before then.

Your system looks good, usually cached mem can consume everything( drove me nuts with my old rig ), but whats showing in Resource monitor for memory? it looks like processes are consuming the rest iff it is as slow as you say. Also can you check cpu usage just in case