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So as of a week ago my RAM is randomly going all the way to 13.4GB of use and I cannot for the life of me figure out why and task manager is no help. First I thought It was Google Chrome because it is unstable so I Stopped using that, But didnt uninstall. Then I thought it was origin because I read up on some memory use it was taking up, but even when its off this happens, and its also not Steam or hl2 I'm sure of that atleast. I have recently done Windows updates and other updates to see if that'd help, didn't.

System Spec: Windows 7 64-bit / Phenom ii x4 b55 / G.Skill Sniper 16GB /

see my problem. It doesn't actually show whats using all that memory.
http://i43.tinypic.com/126bvk6.jpg

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check the resources monitor and see what it says

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Reply to h3sham

Same thing That Task manager is telling me

Reply to Suave145

i do have to admit, you do have a lot of background processes but nothing that should do that.

i'd make sure there isn't any possible malware or anything of such. also if you can try to do a system restore and see if that eliminates the problem

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Reply to zakattak80

ok remove AVG antivirus and try another antivirus but before you do that try scaning for viruses

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Reply to h3sham

I've been doing scans and defragged a few times. I run AVG and I use also malwarebytes antimalware. I can't go past 2/11 and its been going on longer But ill give that a try, later though Thanks.

I'll keep taking suggestions as well.

Reply to Suave145

and check the java and search indexer....try killing the whole process tree and see what happens

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Reply to h3sham

neither of those are running in processes neither in the services section

Reply to Suave145

wait so your antivirus hangs at 2/11? if it doesnt get past that scan your hard disk on another computer and clean it

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Reply to h3sham

Uninstall avg and install an alternate virus scanner such as avast free and run a scan, I cant tell you how often i've had people complain up and down that they cant have a virus because their scanner never found anything.

 

If you have trouble running or installing the virus scanner do the following tasks to disable all nonessential startup services and programs.

 

Run msconfig and select the services tab, check the box "hide all Microsoft services" and click disable all, then select the startup tab and disable all". Once you solve your problem just reverse this to renable all services and programs.


Message edited by vegettonox on 02-16-2012 at 05:37:23 AM
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Reply to vegettonox

Thanks Ill Do that. But just to say, doing a restore made things worse which I never had happen before and was annoying me so i just un-did that.

Reply to Suave145

No avast hasn't Helped do anything for me at this point and I've already disabled the services. At the moment It isn't Skyrocketing. But when it does, usually is till i restart my computer


Message edited by Suave145 on 02-16-2012 at 11:12:27 PM
Reply to Suave145

Sorry but after a week of it not happening and I did install avast and just left it cause reinstalling avg would be to much work. It happened a few minutes ago and nothing on my computer has changed...

anyone have any other suggestions? could it be addons? nothings working atm

Reply to Suave145

What is the N2.exe * 32 running... Which program is this one ... I don't think is your Antivirus Problem..... Do you open lot of Virtural Drive.... It use up memory fast..

Download Processor Explorer From Microsoft
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us [...] s/bb896653

and see which program use lot of memory..

Reply to sonexpc

did you scan your harddisk for viruses on another computer where it wasnt the master disk with the system??

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Reply to h3sham

n2.exe? number 2 program? svchost.exe? thats my desktop programs. svchost.exe uses the most i believe

I installed a while ago Oracle Virtual Box and checked the services but nothing...and i uninstalled but it doesn't happen as much as it used to so idk.

Reply to Suave145

Hi there,

Do u have a page file?

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Reply to Nikorr

Suave145 wrote :

So as of a week ago my RAM is randomly going all the way to 13.4GB of use and I cannot for the life of me figure out why and task manager is no help. First I thought It was Google Chrome because it is unstable so I Stopped using that, But didnt uninstall. Then I thought it was origin because I read up on some memory use it was taking up, but even when its off this happens, and its also not Steam or hl2 I'm sure of that atleast. I have recently done Windows updates and other updates to see if that'd help, didn't.

System Spec: Windows 7 64-bit / Phenom ii x4 b55 / G.Skill Sniper 16GB /

see my problem. It doesn't actually show whats using all that memory.
http://i43.tinypic.com/126bvk6.jpg




It only indicates that there are some softwares that are running in the background. Try downloading CCLEANER at piriform.com

Reply to aqe040466

yes i have a page file

I use ccleaner already

Reply to Suave145

Suave145 wrote :

yes i have a page file

I use ccleaner already


Page size?

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Reply to Nikorr

i had it deleted a bit ago and changed it to 13gb

ps set to Background settings


Message edited by Suave145 on 02-24-2012 at 06:06:55 AM
Reply to Suave145

DirectX Diagnostic Tool actually says 13GB but Virtual Memory settings is saying i set it at 5gb which sounds more right.

Ps seems to keep changing everytime i open dxdiag

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Message edited by Suave145 on 02-24-2012 at 06:08:47 AM
Reply to Suave145

Suave145 wrote :

DirectX Diagnostic Tool actually says 13GB but Virtual Memory settings is saying i set it at 5gb which sounds more right.

Ps seems to keep changing everytime i open dxdiag


Can use Process Explorer @ http://www.filehippo.com/download_process_explorer/

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/6922/20111120043904.png

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Reply to Nikorr

http://i39.tinypic.com/2zoxfzl.png

it could be Windows Defender Which I disabled and changed paged files to programs not background services and svchost.exe seems to be taking up less memory :D


Message edited by Suave145 on 02-24-2012 at 10:01:41 AM
Reply to Suave145

I think its Firefox seemed to happened when i opened that and closed it. But Happened even when it wasn't open. I don't know

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