High Ram Use

mlabre20 · 07-11-2008, 12:53 PM

My ram use is normally at 1.1gb even right after I reboot. I have searched all the Processes that are running on google and all of them are normal. The only program thing I have running is Kaspersky. I don't understand why so much memory is used.

**magnethead** · 07-11-2008, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mlabre20

My ram use is normally at 1.1gb even right after I reboot. I have searched all the Processes that are running on google and all of them are normal. The only program thing I have running is Kaspersky. I don't understand why so much memory is used.

you're in vista. You're probably using aero. problem solved. if you're not using aero, then there is a problem.

mlabre20 · 07-11-2008, 03:55 PM

Is that really a normal amount if using aero? What I don't understand is I used to have 1gb of ram and normally I about 500mb to 900mb would be used. But the other day I upgraded to 2gb and now I use even more ram. Why is this

**magnethead** · 07-11-2008, 04:35 PM

my laptop idles around 1.5 GB using aero. so yes. And I have 3 GB of RAM with 128 MB put to GFX.

You put in more RAM so windows turned on more aero features is my guess. Either that, or a variable in how much it was paging to the hard drive, or maybe both?

mlabre20 · 07-11-2008, 04:58 PM

I just changed the system settings to "Adjust for best performance" making everything pretty much look like Windows 95, rebooted, and my memory usage went down to 45%. I mean aero is making a bit of a difference given that when I had 1gb of ram and normally only used 70%, shouldn't I now only be using 35% now that I doubled it. I really don't think any more aero settings were turned on.

**magnethead** · 07-11-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mlabre20

I just changed the system settings to "Adjust for best performance" making everything pretty much look like Windows 95, rebooted, and my memory usage went down to 45%. I mean aero is making a bit of a difference given that when I had 1gb of ram and normally only used 70%, shouldn't I now only be using 35% now that I doubled it. I really don't think any more aero settings were turned on.

it's windows, you never know.

Easy way to tell- run vista as normal, check usage, go to standard vista (turning off aero), and check usage again.

07-11-2008, 12:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
mlabre20 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 145 OS: Windows 7	High Ram Use My ram use is normally at 1.1gb even right after I reboot. I have searched all the Processes that are running on google and all of them are normal. The only program thing I have running is Kaspersky. I don't understand why so much memory is used.

07-11-2008, 03:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
mlabre20 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 145 OS: Windows 7	Re: High Ram Use Is that really a normal amount if using aero? What I don't understand is I used to have 1gb of ram and normally I about 500mb to 900mb would be used. But the other day I upgraded to 2gb and now I use even more ram. Why is this

07-11-2008, 04:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
magnethead Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 3,570 OS: Vista ultimate 32bit My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: High Ram Use my laptop idles around 1.5 GB using aero. so yes. And I have 3 GB of RAM with 128 MB put to GFX. You put in more RAM so windows turned on more aero features is my guess. Either that, or a variable in how much it was paging to the hard drive, or maybe both? __________________ For proper support: what are you running? graphics, cpu, m/board, ram, PSU brand wattage PCI-E requires 26 amps at 12 volts. That's a 650W PSU. Power Supply Info and Selection . Info on thermal compounds & application . TEST PSU USING MULTI-METER . Bench Testing Your System

07-11-2008, 04:58 PM	#5 (permalink)
mlabre20 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 145 OS: Windows 7	Re: High Ram Use I just changed the system settings to "Adjust for best performance" making everything pretty much look like Windows 95, rebooted, and my memory usage went down to 45%. I mean aero is making a bit of a difference given that when I had 1gb of ram and normally only used 70%, shouldn't I now only be using 35% now that I doubled it. I really don't think any more aero settings were turned on.