I have 4GB of Ram in Vista Ultimate 64-bit but I'm running out of memory?

[Dari]

The computer says I only have 16MB of free ram and over 2200MB cached. How do I uncache my memory? This is beyond ridiculous.

 

[MrChad]

Need more information. What programs are you running? Have you manually adjusted your pagefile settings?

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Need more information. What programs are you running? Have you manually adjusted your pagefile settings?

I was just copying a file. I did not manually adjust my pagefile settings. I just got the laptop yesterday and I've been installing and copying stuff on it. Is the problem the pagefile setting? How would I adjust it?

 

[MrChad]

Have you installed all the latest updates (including SP1)? There is an issue described here with some fixes mentioned, but my guess is that the fix is included in SP1.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: MrChad
Have you installed all the latest updates (including SP1)? There is an issue described here with some fixes mentioned, but my guess is that the fix is included in SP1.

I have updated the computer yet. I guess I should.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: MrChad
Have you installed all the latest updates (including SP1)? There is an issue described here with some fixes mentioned, but my guess is that the fix is included in SP1.

I have updated the computer yet. I guess I should.

Absolutely. Baseline Vista had a ton of quirky bugs such as this one. Your best bet is to fully update everything before you do anything else.

 

[stash]

Are you actually getting an error, or are you just reading the info in Task Manager? If there's no actual error, this is just SuperFetch doing its thing.

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: stash
Are you actually getting an error, or are you just reading the info in Task Manager? If there's no actual error, this is just SuperFetch doing its thing.

What is superfetch?

 

[stash]

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: stash
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429

Thanx. It seems more efficient than previous versions of Windows. Hell, I'm installing Windows XP in VPC as I type this and the computer is running fine. But I don't want to get those warnings when Vista is doing all these things in the background. Maybe the windows update will fix this problem.

 

[stash]

Again, what warnings are you seeing, if any?

 

[Dari]

Originally posted by: stash
Again, what warnings are you seeing, if any?

The warning was something along the line of "low memory". But it's gone now and all is well.

 

[stash]

If you weren't running any programs and you were just copying a file, you shouldn't be seeing that error. SF will try to cache as much memory as it can, but it will release it as needed by programs.

 

[Continuity28]

Are you sure it wasn't a low hard disk space warning?

 

[ChronoReverse]

Memory is supposed to be like that. I'd even say that 16MB free is higher than usual.

In fact, if over 2.2GB is cached, it means Vista is working perfectly.



IF and ONLY IF you try starting a program and it couldn't start or grinds the hard drive for several minutes did something malfunction.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: Dari

Originally posted by: stash
Again, what warnings are you seeing, if any?

The warning was something along the line of "low memory". But it's gone now and all is well.

There's a hotfix for that, I can't remember the number off the top of my head. Do a google search, something like "low memory while copying files vista hotfix."

As far as your ram useage, that's normal. Vista will cache all unused ram for superfetch.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Dari
The computer says I only have 16MB of free ram and over 2200MB cached. How do I uncache my memory? This is beyond ridiculous.

Don't be alarmed, that is how Vista works. It aggressively fills the cache. RAM will be released as it is needed.

This is a pretty common outcry as folks don't understand the huge difference in the way XP and Vista handle RAM.

 

[SunnyD]

I have 0 bytes free and 1558MB cached. Welcome to SuperFetch.

 

[imported_wired247]

Originally posted by: Pabster

Originally posted by: Dari
The computer says I only have 16MB of free ram and over 2200MB cached. How do I uncache my memory? This is beyond ridiculous.

Don't be alarmed, that is how Vista works. It aggressively fills the cache. RAM will be released as it is needed.

This is a pretty common outcry as folks don't understand the huge difference in the way XP and Vista handle RAM.

A big +1 to this.......



VISTA IS USING YOUR RAM INTELLIGENTLY... don't be alarmed

 

[George P Burdell]

To get more accurate information about your RAM usage, go to Start and type "Reliability and Performance Manager".

 

[Rubycon]

I know what you mean...

 

[bsobel]

Unused memory is wasted memory.

 

[eboughey]

I still don't see where anyone has told you how to uncache the memory.

I actually need 800m of that memory to create a virtual drive and I can't find out how to release it. The Vista resources won't let it go for me to create the ram disk.

 

[Harvey]

I'm afraid the best answer is still XP. My new Compaq lappy with 2 GB of RAM took forever just to shut down, let alone do any real work, until I UPgraded it back to XP.

Give Vista a couple of years. By then, M$ may have debugged Vista enough to be something more than a poor solution in search of a non-existent problem, and the hardware that will be fast enough to handle the bloat will be cheap enough to afford and in wide distribution.

Of course, that same newer, faster, cheaper hardware will probably run like a slug under whatever newer, more bloated OS they'll be shoving on us, then.

 

[Blazer]

Originally posted by: Harvey
I'm afraid the best answer is still XP. My new Compaq lappy with 2 GB of RAM took forever just to shut down, let alone do any real work, until I UPgraded it back to XP.

Give Vista a couple of years. By then, M$ may have debugged Vista enough to be something more than a poor solution in search of a non-existent problem, and the hardware that will be fast enough to handle the bloat will be cheap enough to afford and in wide distribution.

Of course, that same newer, faster, cheaper hardware will probably run like a slug under whatever newer, more bloated OS the'll be shoving on us, then.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Vista Ultimate is Installed on NOTHING.