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Old December 8th 17, 05:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Peter Jason
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Default Slowing computer.

On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:07:48 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Peter Jason wrote:
I have many HDDs connected to my computer and it runs 24/7.

My unit has an SSD system disk and 12GB RAM.

Will adding more RAM speed things up, or is some limit reached with
extra RAM?


How have you determined the machine is slowing up ?

At the 12GB level, you're pretty well past the point
where more is going to help. You would have some idea
if you had actual "resource hog" software running, which
actually makes use of that RAM. You could probably get
Firefox to eat it all, but it would take a substantial
number of open tabs. Some joker in a thread I was reading,
claims to have been able to open 4000 tabs on Firefox, but
I think he was pulling our leg.

If this is a problem with Torrents, that kind of software
creates a lot of stale connections that use up routing
tables. This has been known to "tip over" routers.
For example, my piddly little router here, can be
tipped over by *Windows*, and I don't even need torrents
to stress it, it's that bad of a product. I couldn't
believe it one night, when an OS upgrade was coming in,
and the LED on the router started to flash (which
means it's "begging for mercy" - it's not smart enough
to restart on its own).

Does Windows have a connection limit ? Is Windows not
able to age out stale connections fast enough to
prevent table exhaustion ? Dunno. You'd have to look
through some postings on a Torrent software site, to see
if Windows has known problems with this sort of thing.

I could absolutely kill your OS, by running the NeatVideo
plugin in demo mode (a tool for removing noise from
videos), as it leaks pool on purpose, until the OS
freezes up. You could buy more RAM in a pathological
case like that, but all that would do is extend the time
until the OS froze, by a couple hours. Originally, the
designer of NeatVideo, wanted to limit free usage
of his product to around 30 minutes. But using
newer OSes, you can stretch that to around 24 hours
(because the pool is bigger, after WinXP era).
But if you don't stick a fork in the thing before
it's too late, it'll freeze the OS on you, and you
cannot use Task Manager to kill it. I think I was
getting Delayed Write failures before the end. And
I'd waited too long to stop it.

Try and be a bit more specific about your use-case,
as there are some things on computers you cannot
fix with a credit card :-)

Paul




Hi, I have kept it in sight but the RAM hardly varies at all,
flat-lining at 5GB all the time, while the CPU (950 i7 8core)flies up
& dowm from 8% to 40% while sorting images and transcoding movies.
The SSD shows great fluctuations too.


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