Where'd my ram go?
(Process Explorer the 3rd party app can't make heads or tails of this either...)
Where'd my ram go?
(Process Explorer the 3rd party app can't make heads or tails of this either...)
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
When was the last time you restarted? Firefox has a well known memory leak that kills your ram.
Just booted it up last night. Don't really use my pc much anymore.
Suppose I'll try that now though. Probably should have done it first
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
Even if it leaks it would still be counted for as usage by that app, also I believe 32 bit app cannot even allocate more than 2 GB of RAM for itself.
Never encountered this problem myself, somethings wrong definitely...
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Does the problem occur after you ran a game or program or straight from startup?
From the top of my head I'd say run a virus scanner / anti malware scanner to see if that might be the issue.
Any browser that you leave open for a long period of time starts using more ram, but as was said in a post before me that would still show up in the processes.
I'd say a reboot OR virus scan
- Awinee
Last edited by Awinee; 2012-04-24 at 02:33 AM.
Just rebooted and started task manager while stuff was still loading... already was at 69% and went up a bit from there.
Doesn't add up
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
Run the virus and anti malware scan and see if you find any viruses on your computer.
Here's what I'd do... Go to MSConfig(Windows key + R then type MSConfig and hit enter) and go to the Startup tab and simply disable everything then reboot and see if your RAM usage is lower. If it is, it means its a program that is starting up with Windows and I would then proceed to enable them all, but disable one at a time and reboot.
Something in your startup process is killing your ram. You should check running in safemode and trying running a malware scan, or a virus scan.
If it were a startup program he would still see it in the Processes afaik. Considering there's nothing in the processes my best guess it's just a virus Viruses can do bad things to your pc including completely ruin them!
Um, remove FFox, google chrome and w/e browser you have, clear all history, temp, cookies. Look at Autorun, if there something suspecious - remove, then reboot and try again
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Figured it out!
Was a 4gb software ramdisk I used awhile ago (and disabled) that was ghosting in the background... completely invisible o.O
Down to 22% now, much happier.
Thanks all.
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.
I'd look at RAM Map. Microsoft's sysinternals really have a lot of answers.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../ff700229.aspx
Should show everything. The only oddities I've seen are when you're virtualized, but then you probably wouldn't need to ask for help on mmo.