Memory Problem

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I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks

Jeff

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On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about 145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs it to load and
execute applications.

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 12:50:13 -0700, "Jeff"
wrote:

I have developed a recent memory problem with my
system.
I have noticed that recently most of the memory on my
system is being used or "taken" by the system cache. I
have 256MB of memory, but after boot up I have
approximately 75-80MB in available memory and about
145MB
in system cache. If I monitor it, I can see the system
cache growing while the available memory shrinks.

I found a 3rd party program online that frees up the
memory to where it should be. Once I do that, the
system
cache begins taking memory again. I checked the
processes and the problem seems to be in an SVC.exe
process. Right after boot up it is around 20MB which
seems very large to me. I have checked for viruses,
spyware, etc. Nothing has worked. I would appreciate
any help you can give me.

Thanks


Nothing wrong here... by design, XP will use all the
memory it has
access to. This results in a much faster system because
you are
actually utilizing your resources rather than them just
sitting there.
Would you prefer that XP swaps that data out to your
paging file
instead of keeping it in memory? That would be a big
performance
hit...

Which would you prefer... a system that uses that
memory for whatever
it needs, or one that leaves the memory free and runs
slower?

I have found XP to be very good at managing memory
resources, freeing
up memory it has allocated for system cache as it needs
it to load and
execute applications.
.


Thanks Daniel, Just to make sure we're on the same page;
are you saying that WinXP is simply "grabbing" all of the
available RAM that it can in order to put it in system
cache so the machine runs faster? If so, great.. then I
have no problem.

Thanks,

Jeff