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Name: Skweefie
Date: March 12, 2009 at 19:28:12 Pacific
OS: Windows Vista
Product: Toshiba / Equiium
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

Hi guys

My task manager says

Physical Memory:2037
Cached:1262
Free:64

Kernel Memory
Total:188
Paged:138
Nonpaged:49

This just seems like there is not much memory free.... am I wrong? I am getting slow downs..... can anyone help please?

Thanking you kindly in advance.....



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Response Number 1
Name: RTAdams89
Date: March 12, 2009 at 20:03:22 Pacific
Reply:

Looks fine. The "Free" and "nonpaged" are percentages not MB values.

-Ryan Adams
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Response Number 2
Name: Skweefie
Date: March 13, 2009 at 05:47:59 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Hi,

Thanks sooooo much... I wasn't sure... the reason I asked though is because my CPU usage seems to drift up to 100% alot. I don't have much open but could it be the music slowing it down? (20gb) When I have firefox running it seems to use a lot too but it never did before! I restored my system because it was sluggish but it still does it.


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Response Number 3
Name: RTAdams89
Date: March 13, 2009 at 08:51:01 Pacific
Reply:

Have you looked at the running processes? Are there any that are using a lot of CPU time?

Have you checked and removed unnecessary startup items: http://blog.ryantadams.com/2007/12/...

How about checking for malware?

-Ryan Adams
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Response Number 4
Name: Skweefie
Date: March 15, 2009 at 10:14:35 Pacific
Reply:

I have checked the processes and although there are 63 running (seems alot no?) there is still only a small amount of cpu being used by each one. It only seems to get over loaded whn I have a few internet windows open. And usually with Firefox.

I have also gone to the start up menu option and have removed all the unness items from there.

Mailware? Don't know how to check for that.....

Really am hoping that it is not a firefox thing because I do like the browser.

Much appreciated for this Ryan.


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Response Number 5
Name: RTAdams89
Date: March 15, 2009 at 10:59:31 Pacific
Reply:

You don't need to look at the CPU usage in task manager, you need to memory usage for each process in task manager. When you notice your free RAM is low, start the task manager, and look for any processes that are using a ridicules amount of RAM (say 75,000 or more).

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Response Number 6
Name: Skweefie
Date: March 16, 2009 at 11:24:07 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you Ryan for taking the time to help. I hope people are as nice to you as you are to others

:o) what goes around comes around


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