[PC] - Memory issues

[Harrison]

Biggest culprit for memory leading like is are browsers and torrent clients. It's not happened for some time, but I've had most ram used up and when I've looked in tasks it has been Firefox. Ending its process normally clears it.

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[Demon Cleaner]

Firefox only took like 1%, uTorrent took 300MB. After closing them, it didn't help, that svchost had still the whole 11GB.

Btw, I have 2x2GB and 2x4GB dual channel RAM. But the hardware is not the issue. Like I said, this happens only from time to time, perhaps even less than once a month, but I have to mention that my PC is running 24/7, restarting it sometimes definitely solves the problem, if existing. Nothing to worry about, just would like to know which svchost it is.

[Stephen Coates]

Biggest culprit for memory leading like is are browsers and torrent clients. It's not happened for some time, but I've had most ram used up and when I've looked in tasks it has been Firefox. Ending its process normally clears it.

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Browsers are almost certainly not the culprit here, but I can confirm that they can use a heck of a lot of memory. On my machine, Opera often used many hundreds of megabytes, especially if I've had things like Flash running.

[Kin Hell]

@ DC

Open up Task Manager under Win8 or 8.1 & disable ALL your Start-up programs.

If under earlier versions of WinBlows, open the run cmd & type "msconfig". Again, disable ALL programs you have on the start-up tab. I can not get my head around this feature of Windows. It does nothing more than soak up Ram in a very unnecessary way. A pointless feature that abuses & uses your system Ram. It might load the program quicker for when you first run the program but it also slows down your computer boot time & strips precious Ram in the process.

Also, it's not a good idea to mix Ram size modules, even more so different speed rated Ram, especially on Dual Channel boards with 4 Simm slots. If you have to, be sure you install the pair of Bigger Ram modules in the primary Dual Channel slots & a word of warning here: - Consult your Mobo manual as to which pair of Coloured Slots are the Primary Pair.

[Demon Cleaner]

I always check from time to time under msconfig which programs start that I don't need necessarily and I disable them, doing this since I have PCs.

I'm using Win 7 Home Edition 64-bit.
Mainboard is an Asus P7P55D-E LX
Memory Slots 1&3: Patriot DDR3 1333EL Series 2GB modules
Memory Slots 2&4: Corsair DDR3 CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 4GB modules

Like I said, it happens very rarely.

[Kin Hell]

I always check from time to time under msconfig which programs start that I don't need necessarily and I disable them, doing this since I have PCs.

I'm using Win 7 Home Edition 64-bit.
Mainboard is an Asus P7P55D-E LX
Memory Slots 1&3: Patriot DDR3 1333EL Series 2GB modules
Memory Slots 2&4: Corsair DDR3 CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 4GB modules

Like I said, it happens very rarely.

Try putting the higher density modules in Slots 1 & 3.