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Old May 20th 18, 03:59 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Steve
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Default Windows 10 programs all jumpy

On 5/18/2018 2:43 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Steve wrote:

Well, after I wrote all the above last night, I maximized Firefox which
had been opened the whole time, but minimized. Everything was normal
again. I checked the mail washer program and it was all normal too. It
was bed time and I decided to shut the computer off over night. Today
everything is normal so far. I feel like it's working a little slow, but
I'm not even sure.


Many web pages are now dynamic. They use scripts to decide what content
to deliver and may change the content. Meanwhile your web browser keeps
caching up all that content. The result is the memory footprint for the
web browser keeps growing. You should not leave the web browser loaded
when you are not using it. Also don't leave more tabs open than you
actually need. When memory gets low, all processes have to fight over
what is left. Sometimes even Windows will alert you when memory gets
too low.

Next time this happens, look in Task Manager to see how much free memory
is available. Free memory is wasted memory; however, without any free
memory then processes have troubles getting any more. The result is
having to use the pagefile but that is on the slow [hard] disk and you
could still run out of that, too. Hopefully you were not misled by
those saying you could reduce the pagefile to zero because you have gobs
of RAM. Some apps will preload their data into the pagefile so it is
ready when called but not wasting the much more valuable RAM. If they
cannot get the minimum pagefile space they require, they can error or
even crash.

Also use Task Manager, as Paul mentioned, to check which process(es) are
consuming the most CPU time. For example, scripts running in a web page
loaded in a web browser can run afoul of loops or other conditions that
severely increase the CPU usage by the web browser. Although you
mentioned networking was an issue, the CPU is still involved in handling
all the protocol processing. The CPU may not be involved with packet
buffers that are DMA'ed to system memory but the CPU is still involved
in managing the protocol requests. A low-powered or excessively busy
CPU will have less time to process networking requests.

You want to use the pagefile as little as possible. You don't want your
CPU crushed by some excessively high resource. Time to start reviewing
what processes you have running most of the time, how they suck up
memory and CPU cycles, and whether you really need them running in the
background when you're not using them. Check your startup programs. If
you're not using a program, unload it.

https://www.apicasystems.com/blog/5-...e-bottlenecks/


Task Manager showed memory usage at over 50 % but not way over.
Also, I could have no browsers open. Close everything, then open Mail
Washer alone of Thunderbird alone and all the problems remained the same.
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