ram usage problem is back!!!

[Wesvette]

i have 24 gb of 1866 mhz ddr3 ram but it idles at 66% use, any help would be great!!

[Wesvette]

[colebi wan kenobi]

First go to your processes and see if you can find out what is hogging it all. 

[Wesvette]

[colebi wan kenobi]

Did you already sort for highest usage? Just based off of that I dont see anything that is using a ton of memory. 

[Wesvette]

how do i sort for high use? i scrolled down a little and it seemed to be sorted by memory use already...

[Kiraeden]

You may need to go to the Users tab and make sure that "Show Processes From All Users" is selected, then show the process list again. Might be some background process hogging memory.

[colebi wan kenobi]

You can just click where it says memory and it should sort it from high to low, you also may need to select show processes from all users to see if it is something in the background. 

[LabRat]

that the old firefox?

 

turn off page filing. you don't need it with all that ram.

[Wesvette]

im the only user on my pc

[Wesvette]

how do i turn off page filing??

[LabRat]

right click computer/properties/advanced/performance/advanced/virtual memory...... make changes and don't forget to save.

 

update firefox.

[colebi wan kenobi]

When you select show processes from all users it will show you processes that the system has initiated on your machine even if you may be the only user the "system" is also considered a user and will initiate background processes on its own. 

[Wesvette]

i still dont see that option any where, is it in a sub menu?

[colebi wan kenobi]

Its possible it may already be showing the processes for all users since Im assuming its your home PC you are probably a local administrator account. If you cant find what seems to be eating your memory, a good ol restart never hurts. 

[Sintezza]

disable superfetch.

[Wesvette]

what is super fetch?? i am the ultimate noob

 

[Sintezza]

50 minutes ago, Wesvette said:

what is super fetch?? i am the ultimate noob

 

Super fetch is basicly a feuture that tracks which particular applications you use the most.

And pre load them in a part of the memory, so that they could be started faster.

Disable superfetch and your ram ussage should drop.