memory usage

[richard]

Is anyone experiencing this?
When I first boot the machine, my gadget on the sidebar shows around 20%
for memory usage. I expect it to increase some as I run various
applications. But when I shut them down, the usage remains the same.
It may drop 3% or so but no more.

I've seen it slowly creep up to 70% over a couple of weeks.
Last night, it showed 38% before I went to bed and in the morning it shows
47%?

WTF is microsoft doing? I've never seen memory usage get so bad before
windows 7.
Before you ask, I always check the task manager and end various processes I
don't want running. So that I have only the bare minimal stuff on the
machine.

It isn't from the stuff the company who sells the machine installs, because
I did a reinstall from a paid for disk right out of the box.

 

[Alex Clayton]

Is anyone experiencing this?
When I first boot the machine, my gadget on the sidebar shows around 20%
for memory usage. I expect it to increase some as I run various
applications. But when I shut them down, the usage remains the same.
It may drop 3% or so but no more.

I've seen it slowly creep up to 70% over a couple of weeks.
Last night, it showed 38% before I went to bed and in the morning it shows
47%?

WTF is microsoft doing? I've never seen memory usage get so bad before
windows 7.
Before you ask, I always check the task manager and end various processes I
don't want running. So that I have only the bare minimal stuff on the
machine.

It isn't from the stuff the company who sells the machine installs, because
I did a reinstall from a paid for disk right out of the box.

On both of my machines the RAM meter is normally at a few percent unless
I start doing something. The CPU meter tends to stay at around 35% all
the time, only jumping if I start running something. I am just using the
one that came with W-7 so don’t know how accurate it really is?

 

[Ed Cryer]

Is anyone experiencing this?
When I first boot the machine, my gadget on the sidebar shows around 20%
for memory usage. I expect it to increase some as I run various
applications. But when I shut them down, the usage remains the same.
It may drop 3% or so but no more.

I've seen it slowly creep up to 70% over a couple of weeks.
Last night, it showed 38% before I went to bed and in the morning it shows
47%?

WTF is microsoft doing? I've never seen memory usage get so bad before
windows 7.
Before you ask, I always check the task manager and end various processes I
don't want running. So that I have only the bare minimal stuff on the
machine.

It isn't from the stuff the company who sells the machine installs, because
I did a reinstall from a paid for disk right out of the box.

I haven't been monitoring memory usage in the 8 or so months that I've
had this Win 7 machine, so I took a look. Here's what I find after a
boot and left standing for a couple of minutes to finish its routines. I
don't know if they've been growing in size or not.

66 processes, 42% memory usage (out of 3GB).
The vast majority of those are Win progs. I have AVG + Comodo firewall,
but they are minor culprits.

Win Explorer 18MB.
Desktop Window Manager 10MB.
About 15 of svchost.exe; one 90MB.

Hhhhmm! I could easily afford to top up to 8GB which is my mobo's max,
but it's an Acer super-compact box and you have to remove loads of stuff
to get at the four memory slots.

Ed

 

[Alex Clayton]

You have it backwards. The big meter is for the processor and the little
one for RAM. There is no way Windows 7 can run with a few percent of the
RAM. Why do you think that at least 2 gigs is necessary to run Win 7?
How much RAM do you have?

Ok that makes sense. They are not marked as to which is which. The first
one which must be the CPU then strays at a few percent most of the time.
I just watched it as I was rebooting and it would spike to over 80% a
couple times until all was booted. The RAM seemed to stay pretty much at
about 30% on this machine. On the desktop it seems to stay around 35-40.
That one runs the phone for the house too don’t know if that effects it.
Both of these are Win-7 64’s with 4 Gig of RAM

 

[FooAtari]

Is anyone experiencing this?
When I first boot the machine, my gadget on the sidebar shows around 20%
for memory usage. I expect it to increase some as I run various
applications. But when I shut them down, the usage remains the same. It
may drop 3% or so but no more.

I've seen it slowly creep up to 70% over a couple of weeks. Last night,
it showed 38% before I went to bed and in the morning it shows 47%?

WTF is microsoft doing? I've never seen memory usage get so bad before
windows 7.
Before you ask, I always check the task manager and end various
processes I don't want running. So that I have only the bare minimal
stuff on the machine.

It isn't from the stuff the company who sells the machine installs,
because I did a reinstall from a paid for disk right out of the box.

Windows 7 (and Vista for that matter) manages memory differently than
previous versions of Windows. I can't remember the details but a search
will bring up plenty info.

As I recall it uses up as much memory as it needs (memory is there to be
used after all) and frees it up as necessary for other applications.

 

[Alex Clayton]

On 2/25/2011 4:07 PM, Alias wrote:
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Mine uses the same with Win 7 64 bit. If you hover the mouse over the
meters, it will tell you what it is.

Glad to see you've switched to T-Bird ;-)

Cool, did not know how to make it tell me which was which.
Both versions of WLM started screwing up, so since I have long liked
Mozzilla’s web browser I thought I would try TB again. I had tried it
several years ago and could not get it to talk to my ISP’s feed. This
time it took right off. Very different but seems to be working fine, at
least on my end. I notice now that other posts have all kinds of colored
lines to I guess show the order of replies.

 

[choro]

Please, oh please DO leave a blank line when keying in a response. It is
not as if we are all working with old 9 or 10 inch screens and saving
screen space is of paramount importance.

It is difficult for the eye to follow the conversation if you leave no
blank line in between.

 

[Mazda Girl]

Please, oh please DO leave a blank line when keying in a response. It is
not as if we are all working with old 9 or 10 inch screens and saving
screen space is of paramount importance.

It is difficult for the eye to follow the conversation if you leave no
blank line in between.

Choro, please don't post upside down, especially when the thread is
already right side up.

 

[John Morrison]

Choro, please don't post upside down, especially when the thread is
already right side up.

Oh Mazda Girl, I endorse your concern about top posters, but following
our posts we will probably hear about the rights & wrongs of top posting
all next week.

 

[richard]

Please, oh please DO leave a blank line when keying in a response. It is
not as if we are all working with old 9 or 10 inch screens and saving
screen space is of paramount importance.

It is difficult for the eye to follow the conversation if you leave no
blank line in between.

While dumbass you not only top posts, but then posted your signature after
your reply which causes what you replied too, to become part of your
signature.
Yeppers dude, you're one smart boy when it comes to correct netiqutte.
You must be a politician.