Ram is filling up

[Suave145]

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.

 

[h3sham]

check the resources monitor and see what it says

 

[Suave145]

Same thing That Task manager is telling me

 

[zakattak80]

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

 

[h3sham]

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

 

[Suave145]

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.

 

[h3sham]

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

 

[Suave145]

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

 

[h3sham]

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

 

[vegettonox]

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.

 

[Suave145]

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.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[sonexpc]

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/sysinternals/bb896653

and see which program use lot of memory..

 

[h3sham]

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

 

[Suave145]

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.

 

[nikorr]

Hi there,

Do u have a page file?

 

[aqe040466]

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

 

[Suave145]

yes i have a page file

I use ccleaner already

 

[nikorr]

yes i have a page file

I use ccleaner already

Page size?

 

[Suave145]

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

ps set to Background settings

 

[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

 

[nikorr]

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/

 

[Suave145]

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 😀

 

[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