Guest pestocat Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 The memory is use keeps getting larger even when nothing is going on. I have restart every couple days when I run out of memory. I have 1 GB RAM and running Win XP Pro with all the updates. I have Outlook and IE7 running and have turned off BitDefender Anti-virus and anti-spam. What could be happening?
Guest Unknown Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Memory Usage Keeps Getting Larger Right click task bar and select 'task manager' to see what is using memory. "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message news:%23dPjxbC6HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > The memory is use keeps getting larger even when nothing is going on. I > have restart every couple days when I run out of memory. I have 1 GB RAM > and running Win XP Pro with all the updates. I have Outlook and IE7 > running and have turned off BitDefender Anti-virus and anti-spam. What > could be happening? >
Guest Robert Moir Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Memory Usage Keeps Getting Larger "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message news:%23dPjxbC6HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > The memory is use keeps getting larger even when nothing is going on. I > have restart every couple days when I run out of memory. I have 1 GB RAM > and running Win XP Pro with all the updates. I have Outlook and IE7 > running and have turned off BitDefender Anti-virus and anti-spam. What > could be happening? How do you know memory in use is getting larger? What happens when you run out of memory? <heavily simplified> Memory in a computer is not like money in your bank to be invested carefully and frugally. Memory is there to be used, and in the normal operation most modern operating systems, the system will attempt to find a use for all the memory it can find because memory it can't use is memory you wasted money purchasing. If another process requires more memory then the things currently using it will be made to give up some for the new process to use. Memory being used, by itself, isn't a bad thing.
Guest pestocat Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Memory Usage Keeps Getting Larger I'm monitoring Task Manager and can watch memory usage with time. When memory gets to 2.7 GB or so, I get messages that Bitdefender tried to load something and could not get resources. "Robert Moir" <usenet@REMOVE2EMAILrobertmoir.com> wrote in message news:uWUdwmC6HHA.1204@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message > news:%23dPjxbC6HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> The memory is use keeps getting larger even when nothing is going on. I >> have restart every couple days when I run out of memory. I have 1 GB RAM >> and running Win XP Pro with all the updates. I have Outlook and IE7 >> running and have turned off BitDefender Anti-virus and anti-spam. What >> could be happening? > > How do you know memory in use is getting larger? What happens when you run > out of memory? > > <heavily simplified> > Memory in a computer is not like money in your bank to be invested > carefully and frugally. Memory is there to be used, and in the normal > operation most modern operating systems, the system will attempt to find a > use for all the memory it can find because memory it can't use is memory > you wasted money purchasing. If another process requires more memory then > the things currently using it will be made to give up some for the new > process to use. > > Memory being used, by itself, isn't a bad thing. >
Guest Robert Moir Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: Memory Usage Keeps Getting Larger "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message news:OK%23aX$C6HHA.5424@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > I'm monitoring Task Manager and can watch memory usage with time. When > memory gets to 2.7 GB or so, I get messages that Bitdefender tried to load > something and could not get resources. Could be a memory leak. Or... you haven't been listening to those fools that tell people to turn off their virtual memory page file have you? Ok, in task manager, click the Processes tab. One of the columns in this table should be Mem Usage (see next paragraph on how to add columns if it isn't there). Click on this to sort running processes by memory use, and click again to bring the high numbers to the top of the list. Now in the task manager window's menus, open the View menu and select Select Columns. Tick Memory Usage Delta (this is where you'd also click memory usage if it didn't appear above). Click OK. You should now have a list of processes running on your system, sorted by amount of memory being used, AND you should also be able to see in the Mem Delta column the 'rate of change' for this memory, numbers in brackets represent a decrease in mem use, normal numbers represent increase. You're looking for something that is using a lot of memory and probably shows a steady increase rate.
Guest pestocat Posted August 29, 2007 Posted August 29, 2007 Re: Memory Usage Keeps Getting Larger I think I found the problem. For the last several days I have been stopping and/or uninstalling various applications. I stopped WeatherBug, Google Desktop, BitDefender and still used memory kept getting larger. I re-enabled the mentioned applications. I also added the "Mem-delta" column and this was a good suggestion. There was an application that was always adding and substracting memory. The software is an old Lucent application named VitalAgent. This is a great tool that shows you network speeds for down/up-loads plus other tools. I must have downloaded this at least 10 years ago. Well, I uninstalled VitalAgent and the used memory dropped from 1362 MB to 691 MB. This is a small piece of software so it really didn't need all that memory. I did a Google search on VitalAgent and it looks as if the software has been updated http://www.pcnet-online.com/picks/vitalagent.htm I will check this out. "pestocat" <gel114@theconnection.com> wrote in message news:%23dPjxbC6HHA.5796@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > The memory is use keeps getting larger even when nothing is going on. I > have restart every couple days when I run out of memory. I have 1 GB RAM > and running Win XP Pro with all the updates. I have Outlook and IE7 > running and have turned off BitDefender Anti-virus and anti-spam. What > could be happening? >
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