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Where the heck is all my ram going.... (56k death)

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No, i am not complaining about my ram being eaten by a hoggy OS.

Why the (insert word of your imagination here) am i using over 5.5GB of ram....

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Not to be a hypocrite, I just have to do it . . .

You have over 9,000 processes going on at once
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So lets point me to the one that decided to swallow 4GB
Sasser or blaster virus maybe?
Because Windows can. You have it, so Windows will reserve the ram even if it's not using it.
Click "Resource Monitor" then click the Memory tab after that take a screenshot bro
My brother-in-law had a Windows Media Player Network Sharing process running that hogged 2.5gb of his ram. I see that yours isn't using that much but maybe a virus is causing the problem. I don't see any anti-virus processes running.
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Do you have any disk images mounted?
yes i do, just unmounted, see how it goes
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Didn't you know that circumventing the OCN swearing filters uses 4G of RAM?
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Didn't you know that circumventing the OCN swearing filters uses 4G of RAM?

cmon now, lol give a brother a break? ok, i edit it.
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in the task manager click on View...then Select Columns.....enable Virtual Memory Usage and Commit Size....see what it says
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Originally Posted by Vlasov_581 View Post
in the task manager click on View...then Select Columns.....enable Virtual Memory Usage and Commit Size....see what it says

It doesnt have Select columns in mine....
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idk if it worked for you, but I had the same problem before and it was using 7.5 of my 8gigs or ram. I found out that the image mounting program i was using had a memory leak, and as soon as I unmounted the image my memory usage went back to normal
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idk if it worked for you, but I had the same problem before and it was using 7.5 of my 8gigs or ram. I found out that the image mounting program i was using had a memory leak, and as soon as I unmounted the image my memory usage went back to normal
Ok, i was using magic disk (magic iso-related program). I will see how it goes. Until then, recommend more fixes for me, because a reboot fixed the problem every time, but eventually i am using 6GB of ram

I am currently using 941Mb with 61 processing running so, thats clearly not the issue.
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It doesnt have Select columns in mine....
lol wut?
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I thought this was just Vista grabbing RAM for its internal caching thing?
vista?

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lol wut?
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lol ooops
......options then
how freaking dumb am I, we both missed it, it has to be on the process tab. lol....

Edit: i cant find virtual usage thingy, altough commit size worked

I also wanted to say

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Originally Posted by Acoma_Andy View Post
Because Windows can. You have it, so Windows will reserve the ram even if it's not using it.
This couldnt be more false, it is %100 wrong. Windows will use around 1.5 GB at most on idle. Just because it can, remember we are talking about 1.5GB over the 200-500Mb from XP.
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