| Author | Message | ||
     Musky Rover (Gumarcel) Senior Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 1217 Registered: 11-2002 |
Alright so here is my new computer problem. I am running windows XP pro. Now the problem is this, when I go into task manager and click the performance tab and look at the sencond graph (The page file usage history) it is now around 990mb-1000mb out of 1249MB. It is usually at 200mb-250mb. But now it will go from 200 then right to 990 for no reason. It is really making my computer slow, is there any way to fix it from going so high?? chris | ||
| Martin Tuip (Ajax) Member Username: Ajax Post Number: 92 Registered: 06-2003 |
Can you see what is taking up that many memory in that tab ? | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 1092 Registered: 02-2002 |
Go to the processes tab and identify your offending program or file. | ||
| Musky Rover (Gumarcel) Senior Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 1218 Registered: 11-2002 |
you mean the program with the most memory being used? The thing that is on top is "cidaemon.exe" and that is on the list twice, and th other thing is "svchost.exe" which is on the list 6 times | ||
| roger katz (Rangierog) New Member Username: Rangierog Post Number: 29 Registered: 09-2003 |
some folks might find this link helpful. It identifies Task Manager items so you can begin to figure out what's really going on with your resource use. http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm | ||
| Musky Rover (Gumarcel) Senior Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 1219 Registered: 11-2002 |
well pretty much all the process that are on there are needed for my crap running on my computer. | ||
| Craig Kobayashi (Koby) Dweb Lounge Member Username: Koby Post Number: 1093 Registered: 02-2002 |
I would disable the Indexing Service which the service that uses cidaemon.exe. I've found that sometimes it can slow your computer down. Symptoms of this would be bursts of maximum CPU utilization and random spikes of memory utilization like you are experiencing. If you don't want to disable this service, then at least run Windows Update. I believe there are fixes for this problem in XP SP1 | ||
| Justin Kurosaki (Kurosaki) New Member Username: Kurosaki Post Number: 17 Registered: 02-2004 |
Musky, Also set your virtual memory pagefile setting to custom. Specify the same minimum and maximum size for the pagefile. This prevents the pagefile from fragmenting. Will require a reboot to take effect usually. Set this to 1.5-2 times the amount of RAM in your system. Also follow craigs advice and disable indexing. You could probably go in and disable a number of services as well that you probably don't need. -justin | ||
| Dean Brown (Deanbrown3d) Senior Member Username: Deanbrown3d Post Number: 1478 Registered: 02-2002 |
1GB of virtual memory is not unusual! And do as Craig says and turn off indexing. If you want to find a file, right-click on a directory and use SEARCH from there, rather than the rediculous find page in win explorer. | ||
| DW (Dcw) New Member Username: Dcw Post Number: 22 Registered: 01-2004 |
There are a few things you can do to optimize XP. One of the first things I do after installing it is to lose the XP GUI and revert back to the classic Windows look. It might look cool but it eats up a lot of resources. Also stop the System Restore. Here’s a page full of tweaks that will help. http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/supertweaks.htm | ||
| Musky Rover (Gumarcel) Senior Member Username: Gumarcel Post Number: 1220 Registered: 11-2002 |
Well I did some of those steps and it is cooling down and running around 200. Thanks ya'll, I want to throw this freaking thing out the damn window, it is a horrid computer! | ||
| Justin Kurosaki (Kurosaki) New Member Username: Kurosaki Post Number: 19 Registered: 02-2004 |
DW, I agree that system restore uses up resources, but I suggest keeping it unless you really have no need for it. I used to always remove it, but I've found some great uses for it. One is that it COMPLETELY removes software installed after a backup point. Much better than using uninstall utilities that come with the software. Great for testing software without mucking up your computer. Another great use of the system restore is when you are using software with an expiration. Simply rollback the restore and reinstall as if the software had never been installed. Although I've only had to use it once to actually "fix" my machine (running MCE 2004) it can be very helpful to those who are not computer experts. -Justin |
