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I have a Windows 7 Professional computer with 12GB of RAM. On a fresh start up, the amount of RAM is more than adequate for my needs. However, a couple of weeks into up-time and it appears that the memory just disappears and starts using virtual memory, causing my performance to degrade.
For example, I typically have 3 instances of visual studio open, which early on in the up-time is perfectly fine. However, it gets to the point where even one instance of visual studio is too much overload to handle, even after restarting visual studio.
Here are some screenshots that show you the differences in the task manager:
On Fresh Restart:
2 Weeks Up-time:
I understand that Windows 7 will try to use up all available ram over time to allow for quick access of programs and other services (caching basically), but this doesn't explain why after 2 weeks of computer up-time I am having to close tons of programs/processes just to use a program without screen-freezing lag, whereas with barely any up-time I can run multiple programs just fine.
What exactly is happening here?
1It may not be somthing running as your user. Click
Resource Monitor
on thePerformance
tab and go to theMemory
tab of the new screen. Post screenshots of that window instead. – Scott Chamberlain – 2013-05-08T20:32:33.717@ScottChamberlain Good point. Unfortunately, I just restarted my computer. With that said, svchost.exe is the only outstanding program which is running at 181K right now. I will keep an eye on it. – ROFLwTIME – 2013-05-08T20:38:48.477
In the first picture you have 135 processes running, in the second you have 155. More programs=More memory..... – BroScience – 2013-05-08T20:32:18.063
Run Process Explorer from SysInternals suite (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx) and launch it as administrator to get a better picture of what's consuming your memory. On the View menu, click Select Columns and go to the memory tab. Put a check in virtual size, then sort by that column.
– Robert Kerr – 2013-05-09T09:22:43.113I saw the question bumped to the front page, did you ever get the chance to get the screen shots with Resource Monitor? – Scott Chamberlain – 2013-05-14T07:14:53.557