On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:28:36 +0000, Arfa Daily wrote:

Pretty bog standard machine here. AMD Athlon 64 processor, 2GB of single
channel DDR 160MHz memory, couple of hard drives etc. Running Windoze 7
Ultimate 64 bit (not my choice, put on there by my lad, when he built
the machine).

In all general respects, it works just fine. But it has this really
annoying thing of clogging up its memory over a few days. Normally, this
machine is never turned off, as was also the case with its predecessor,
which ran all sorts of Windoze versions over the years that I used it,
ending with XP Pro. There was never any problem with memory clogging on
that machine. This one, however, starts off, after a clean boot, showing
about 35% memory in use at idle. There are a few 'background' progs
running, such as a clock synchronizer and a weather monitor, and
Thunderbird as a mail client, anti virus etc, so I guess that 35% is
reasonable. But over the course of a few days, the amount in use creeps
up and up until you reach around 90% usage with the same background
progs running, and it otherwise idling. I have tried a number of memory
'cleaner' programs and the best I have found to date is one called
simply "CleanMem". It claims to do a genuine job of clearing unused crap
out of the memory that's been left behind, unlike other cleaners which
it says work by fooling the system in some way by filling the memory
with zeros or some such. I'm not really au fait enough with the workings
of computers to understand just what it was saying, but suffice to say
that it does seem to work better than the others I've tried. But even
that one seems unable to recover the situation beyond about 75% usage.
The only way to get the memory back, and thus recover the speed of the
machine, is to do a "Restart", which is a royal pain in the arse.

So, is this just a poor characteristic of 7 that previous versions of
Windoze didn't suffer from ? Does anyone else have a similar problem, or
have found a way to resolve it ? Not looking for a long drawn-out
discussion on this - I can live with it. Just interested to see if
anyone better qualified at this sort of thing than me, has a definitive
answer.

Arfa

Go into the task manager and view the amount of memory each process is
using. You've probably got one that has a memory leak which isn't
uncommon. Malwarebytes had a huge problem with that until they corrected
it.



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