RAM Overload, What's The Problem....

[mlauzon]

Have no idea why this happened, wasn't doing anything intensive, and then everything just started to slow down, see attached images. As you can see from the Processes tab, there's no reason why the RAM should be sitting at 6GB.

[_dangtx_]

is that 6 gigs total,almost all used?

enable more options in the view thing

[mlauzon]

I've only got 6GB.

[TopDogZero]

Maybe virus, spyware?

[Zero82z]

Under Physical Memory in Task Manager, look at Cached. That isn't your RAM being sucked up by some secret memory-hungry program. It's just being used by Superfetch to cache things for faster access. Nothing to worry about. It's part of the way Windows works, and if the RAM is ever needed by another program, Superfetch will release it.

[mlauzon]

Did you even see where it says "Free", because right beside that it says "0", which means the actual memory has been used. As of right now Windows is using under a GB of RAM to run, when it usually uses anywhere from 1.50GB - 2GB.

[Zero82z]

Originally Posted by mlauzon

Did you even see where it says "Free", because right beside that it says "0", which means the actual memory has been used. As of right now Windows is using under a GB of RAM to run, when it usually uses anywhere from 1.50GB - 2GB.

I currently have about 6MB of RAM "free". Like I said, Superfetch will release cached RAM to be used as soon as another program requests it.

[mlauzon]

This was not released, I had to kill explorer.exe, and even that didn't at first drop the RAM, but when it did drop it, it only dropped by about 100MB. So, no, it was not Superfetch that did this. The actual 6GB of RAM was being used and I have no idea what for.

[_dangtx_]

enable all the other options in 'view'

[Zero82z]

Have you tried rebooting?