I have a Windows 7 laptop, which has 4GB of RAM and admittedly is quite a few years old. Recently, it seems all my RAM is being used up, without doing anything or very much at all (e.g. just opening Google Chrome and reading my Goggle Mail), and everything grinds to a halt if I try to do anything at all (e.g. open a PDF document in Acrobat Reader, open Word or Excel, etc...).  Below are a couple of screenshots from Process Explorer that illustrate the issue:      I have changed the indexing options of Windows to a minimum set of folders to see if that makes a difference. I suppose I could disable search indexing altogether. Any other suggestions (other than buying more RAM)?  Update: my question is different from the suggested duplicate. I have tried stopping some services, but I don't really know which are needed, and which ones aren't. Below is a screenshot of RAMMap, it shows that most of the memory is active (mostly as "nonpaged pool" and "process private"), and not in standby as in the suggested duplicate question:
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I'm having a problem with my ram on windows 7. The ram is clearing or programs are using and dumping it faster than it can clear. I have 8gb of ram I'm only using 4gb and the rest is in Standby. At best time I can get 100mb of free but its mostly at 15mb or less. I suspect a memory leak but I have no way to figure out what program it is. I have not installed any new hardware recently and newly installed programs have bin closed. Does any one have an idea of what is going on and how to fix it?   I'm sorry this is so little information but that is all I have as well.  Edit: I tried RamMap and found out the my "Mapped File" has 3,291,784k ram in standby how do I figure out what program and how do I limit it's ability to set ram in standby?  Edit: I keep getting a problem when I will have 0 free ram and my computer will stop working properly. It will become outrageously slow where it will take 3-4 minutes to start task manager so I can close some programmes. When I free up some ram by closing some programmes every thing runs normally. It does not matter which programs I closes only that I free up some ram. I know a lot of you say it's supposed to be like that and that's how windows works. But its obviously a problem and my computer has never worked that way neither has any of my other computers. I would like to fix this please help me.
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I have 4GB RAM. When I open Firefox, IntelliJ IDEA or VS Code and some other application my memory is about used up thus my machine hangs and I can't do anything. I can't even close any applications.    Date and time are shown in the top bar so that I can view it any time without any thing typing.   If I would view memory status in this way without typing anything then I can make a decision whether to open an application or whether this application may put my machine in hanging state or not.    Is it possible in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
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I want use 4GB of RAM.  Can I use in Windows XP 32-bit?  Or should I go for Windows XP - 64-bit? Does it support 4GB of RAM?  Does Windows 7 32-bit support more than 4GB of RAM, or is >4GB support only available in Windows 7 64-bit?
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my former wrong assumption: it drains my notebook battery and I've no shortage of RAM. In Task manager you see ntoskrnl.exe is eating more CPU time than any other process. this feature does not appear to be optional and came 2 days ago with the 1st Win10 Update (Win10Pro in my case).  Edit:  I want to disable it, at least to exclude it as a culprit for my (unproven) assumptions. That process never came to my attention in the last 2 months and in task manager's long name it's called "system memory and compressed memory".
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I have recently upgraded a Windows 7 Home Premium PC with 12 GB of RAM. For some reason once I looked in the System tab it said only 7.96 GB of 12 GB of RAM is usable. I have already tried to go into the msconfig to see if the Maximum Memory was ticked, which it wasn't.  Is there a solution to this error? The other topics that I have viewed on Super User did not help me at all.  Installed RAM:   msconfig:   My Windows Edition is showing "Home Premium":   Resource Monitor:
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I just upgraded my computer's RAM, adding another 4 GB to the computer.  Windows 7 acknowledges that 8 GB is installed, but says only 7.5 GB is accessible.  Any idea why? I thought since I had the 64-bit Professional version this wouldn't be an issue.
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my disk has over 100GB of free space, but the usage bar in Computer is displayed in red, as if it reached a low space limit. It looks like Windows applies the same 10% or 15% hard disk space value for low space warnings, regardless of if the disk is 50GB in size or 1.5TB, which is not very smart and obsolete for most recent computers.  Is there a Registry key or some place I can change this percentage so the usage bar displays in green, not red?  The hibernation and page files are already reserved (5GB together), so surely the low space warning for a 1.5TB disk should be 5-10GB, not 150GB or more. The way Windows 7 computes the low space limit seems pretty dumb, not much Intellisense there.  This is not a high priority issue, but it makes the Computer applet look pretty stupid and it's irritating every day to see that 100GB of free space is putting my computer in the red. It would also be nice to be able to edit this low limit percentage in Computer/Manage/Storage/Disk Management or directly in the disk properties ("Tools" tab).
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Apparently, you can speed up your computer by adding more RAM. Is the amount of ram to be added is directly or indirectly related to the amount of hard-disk  space, processor speed, Motherboard etc... Can the memory of a RAM be compared with Virtual Memory and Cache Memory?  Note: About my PC Configuration: Intel core i5 processor, Motherboard DP55WB 4GB RAM, 700 GB Hard-disk space.
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This System Information is from Process Explorer. There is still physical memory available but the system shows nearly no RAM left.  Task Manager also shows that about 74% of total RAM is used.  Since installing Windows 8.1, the computer had 4+8=12 GB of RAM. I upgraded it by changing the 4 GB to an 8 GB module. Could that be the problem? Or is this behavior normal and I've just misunderstood the meaning of available physical memory?
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I've a windows 10 copy running in my core i5 second gen laptop. Now there is this issue where the hard disk usage goes to 100% and the system doesn't respond for a few seconds to even few minutes. I've run process monitor, resource monitor and found that the system uses the disk so much. This doesn't happen when the pc is on idle rather, if I open a folder or any other window, the hard disk usage spikes to 100% and be there for a long time! which is unusual.   I looked at the event log and there I saw a lot of events with the following message.  The start type of the Windows Modules Installer service was changed from demand start to auto start   I couldn't find what is wrong with the system. I use bitdefender 2015 antivirus and tried switching it off. Then again I disabled windows search, indexing service and all possible solutions I could find over the internet. Installed Ccleaner and did a registry clean and a system cleanup. Nothing worked and now the system is unusable! I cannot re - install windows since I don't have most of the software I've already installed.   If it helps the laptop is a Dell Inspiron n5110. Please help me..
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I have a problem that my windows 7 computer sometimes starts accessing the disk like crazy for maybe 10 minutes at a time. The process in question is the "system" process. I have disabled superfetch and hibernation on my computer, if that makes any difference. I disabled those to see if they were the cause of the problems, but no change. I have 6 GB of RAM and only the web browser was started when I took the screenshot, so I don't think it was thrashing due to page faults.  Any ideas on how to find the cause of this?
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A weird problem has appeared on my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. I have 8 GiB RAM and 10 GiB swap area. It worked fine, programs were swapping fast from the SSD, the swapped memory were mostly memory leaks and forgotten mmap anyway... but then something broke it. I have no idea what, I have not noticed it immediately. But now, it swaps incredibly rarely.  The swap space is almost unoccupied, I can have 95% RAM usage and swap space is only 5% full. If RAM fills up, it rarely swaps anything out, it freezes instead, sometimes it recovers after killing a program, but way too often, I have to do a hard reset.  I have checked the swappiness property, but it is set to 60 and setting it to 100 changes nothing. I upgraded Ubuntu to version 17.04, but it didn't help.  If I run a process that takes a lot of memory and uses it actively, it appears to swap out the memory of this process (that just allocated it!), making the process freeze again soon to get back the memory shortly aferwards, in a never ending loop. Almost none of the swapped out memory remains swapped out for long, although I am pretty sure there is enough leaked memory and unused programs to swap.  Any ideas what might be wrong?
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On my mother's Lenovo laptop, Windows XP claims that the hard drive is almost full. According to the properties window, 52.7 out of 55.2 GB is in use:    By deleting temp files from Internet Explorer, System Restore, Recycle bin, Windows Update, System Cleanup, I managed to free up about one GB. That's still > 50 GB in use, which still is a lot more than I expected. Hence, I gave good old  a spin, and here's the output:    It might be hard to read here, but the first line says that the total amount of disk space in use on drive C is 24.3 GB. So Windows claims usage of 52.7 GB and WinDirStat can only account for 24.3 GB. Where is the other half of that disk space being used?  I hope someone has an answer, or some tricks or tips to do further research.    UPDATE: The laptop in question has an SSD hard drive. I am aware that these disk (at least the earlier ones) have a limited life-time. Could the symptoms described be caused by wear and tear on the SSD?
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My girlfriend bought a laptop last week. It's a core 2 duo with 4 GB  We installed vista 64bit, and one of the first things we did was right click on "My computer" to see gthe properties. Immediately we noticed something strange about her RAM, the line said: Installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (3,68 GB usable)  I told her not to worry, thinking it must be something about the laptop hardware (considering her vista installation came from the same DVD as mine, and I never noticed anything like that on my 4 GB desktop). One hour ago, it got worse. We looked at Properties again, and it now says: Installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (2,98 GB usable)  What does that mean? Are those 1,02 GB missing or being used by the system?  EDIT: There is a possibility that the sytem information is wrong. I just noticed that it reports an intel T6500 processor, when it's actually a T6400.  How can I find out how much RAM is really available to the system?  EDIT2: Checking the resource monitors, it says 1003 MB are reserved for the hardware. Is that good or bad? Thanks
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Imagine I have tons of RAM. Let's say 64GB. That's a lot for even gaming PCs. Now the default location of a pagefile in Windows is on the main OS drive, be it HDD or SSD, which are faster in general, but still not as fast as RAM.  Something tells me that disabling the pagefile on the hard drive or creating a virtual RAM drive and letting the pagefile be there could make Windows move all its virtual memory to RAM, and so increase the system's performance, but I'm not very knowledgeable in that area, so that might not be true at all.  I tried both, but I couldn't analyze the results to reach a definite conclusion with my knowledge level in memory things.  Would this work? If not, why?
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I have a 27'' iMac (Late 2012, OS X 10.9.2) with 8GB RAM. The usage of memory is always above 7GB, even though I don't think I am running that much stuff. This leads to the occasional hanging of a program and occasional feeling of the computer being lagged.  The heaviest thing I am running is a Parallels virtualization of a defunct Windows laptop (for my Windows-only programs; work-related). Then I mostly surf with Chrome (10-20 tabs, some with youtube videos). Of course I have other things opened, like Mail, Evernote and a few more. But I don't think a 8GB RAM computer should be overwhelmed by that. I could be wrong.  I am willing to provide an export of processes from the Activity Monitor. I tried looking into it, of course, and I am running A LOT of small processes (unknown to me) -- system stuff I presume. I am a long-time PC user and I know my way around process management in PCs, but not on Mac.  What do you think? Do I just need more RAM or it doesn't feel like it?  Regards,
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I have 8GB of memory on a 64 bit windows 8.1 machine, and windows is telling me I'm using 91% of my memory, yet its simultaneously telling me I'm only using 3GB.  I literally just restarted my machine a few minutes ago because it was being incredibly rediculously slow. I'm currently only running chrome (with a ton of tabs, but doesn't add up to anywhere near 7.5GB). What could be going on here?   Here's a bunch of my current info       I took a look at this:  but I wasn's able to use xperf and the rest didn't lead me to a solution.  UPDATE - RamMap:   UPDATE 2: I checked Resource Monitor at Wouter's suggestion and found an "Image" called lxdecoms.exe with over 6GB of Commt (KB). I tried killing the process, but while it lowered my Commit Charge, it didn't affect "Used Physical Memory". So I restarted hoping to capture it again in full, but its not back yet and yet the problem persists.  I should note that I do have a Centos virtual box virtual machine running on my machine, not sure if that has any weird memory impacts that aren't reflected in the numbers in these tools.   I got xperf working, so here's my resource monitor and a wpa analysis of my xperf output (from xperf -on ReferenceSet -BufferSize 1024 -MaxFile 512 -FileMode Circular  &amp;&amp; timeout 5 &amp;&amp; xperf -d MemUsage.etl):     What is N/A that's taking up 2.7GB of memory? My VM?