F.A.O Damocles / TCIB (Free Physical Memory = 0)

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Hello gents,

About 2 months ago, my Windows 7 system started to go really slow with BSOD's, so tonight I've had a crack at it. I managed to debug a couple of minidumps and one detected a fault in an application called Samsung Kies (mobile phone software) so I have removed that. I have also cleaned the socket area on the motherboard as it was full of dust. I've cleaned off old thermal paste from the heatsink and CPU, reapplied artic silver 5 to the CPU. Cleaned out the heatsink fan also.

Basically, I'm now at the stage below where free physical memory soon reads a low value or 0 but the average processor load is down to around 30% from 80-90%.

freememory.jpg


My system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit - 8GB RAM. I have tried the following: -

- Moved the page file to a disk with more space, still the same. Also tried using no page file.
- Disabled superfetch as it was the service claiming the most memory at startup.
- Virus scan did throw up a VSHARE plugin and registry keys but Malwarebytes has now removed these.
- Installed Windows 7 on another partition which runs fine, seems to eliminate hardware issues with the memory (but if you believe memtest is required then I'll run it).

Any other ideas as I'm at a loss.

Cheers,

MM
 
If you use firefox atm they are having memory issues.

It could be a few things, have you ran a good defrag app and registry cleaner ? and turned of indexing on slave disks ?

Also on the processes tab what is using all that cpu ?
 
TCIB said:
If you use firefox atm they are having memory issues.

It could be a few things, have you ran a good defrag app and registry cleaner ? and turned of indexing on slave disks ?

Also on the processes tab what is using all that cpu ?
Click to expand...

Use Chrome so not a browser issue.

I'll look at a defrag. Don't generally like using registry cleaners but are there any you would recommend? Will look at indexing now.

Processes tab highest memory usage is a torrent taking 96000kb, two Chrome executables (tabs) at 85000k and 75000k, other than that the other processes take up hardly anything.
 
Ahh have you messed with utorrent cache ?

Settings for that should be...

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First clean out old apps you do not use, i will send you a reg cleaner now bud :)
 
I do have utorrent for certain sites as they use magnet links, but the only torrent app I have used recently is an old and trusted one called Bittornado.

I've turned disk caching off as per your screenshot mate just in case.
 
Hi mate,

Free memory at 0 isn't really a big issue. Windows 7 has a way of using memory different from other previous operating systems. It uses a system called Prefetching on boot up. This means that it looks at your previous history of applications and automatically caches RAM based upon it.

Check Resource Monitor under the Memory tab. On this page:

[bigimg]http://i.imgur.com/RvezL.png[/bigimg]

All of blue bit is available to be used by applications. The orange is temp storage that needs to be written back to disk, the green is memory currently in use and the grey is system reserved

You can reset your system cache if it's REALLY bothering you by a system wipe. Or plug some more RAM in.
 
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