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Memory Problem
-----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 |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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Memory Problem
-----Original Message----- Jeff http://www.liutilities.com/products/...spro/processli brary/svc/ http://securityresponse.symantec.com...er/venc/data/b ackdoor.madfind.html -- ~~~~~~ Thanks, per your response, I ran a virus check in safe mode with negative results. I received another response (which I'm sure you've seen) saying this was actually normal. Thanks for your help. I'm about due for a reload anyway so if there is a problem, that should take care of it. I appreciate your help. Jeff Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Jeff" wrote in message ... 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 . |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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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. Yes. Daniel gave you the correct information. Windows XP will, by design, always attempt to find some use, anything that might potentially be of some benefit, for every bit of the installed RAM rather than just leaving that RAM sitting there idly going to rot and doing absolutely no good for anybody. And just as soon as some better use comes along for some of that RAM then Windows will instantaneously drop the more trivial usages so as to free up whatever is now required. Free memory should more properly be referred to as *useless* memory because that is what it represents - memory for which Windows has so far been totally unable to find any beneficial use for. There are a number of so-called memory freeing utilities out there, some free others requiring payment. Without exception these utilities are totally without merit. There are all totally incapable of performing any beneficial function for Windows XP under any circumstances. Hope this clarifies the situation. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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