Re: 3GB RAM and it's always telling me to close apps
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:55:58 -0700, "Greg" <greg_68@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Thanks reply. I did reboot a little while ago, so I'll have to watch those
>things and report back.
>
>As of right now, the leader is Visual Studio 2008 Professional for all of
>those things, except handles, that leader is svchost.exe (1,243 handles).
>I'll post back once I'm experiencing the problem again.
Greg:
Go to sysinternals.com and download process explorer. It will give you
a much better look at the system resources being used by each
application. You should be able to figure out which program is
leaking.
As the others said: let windows do what it wants with the swap file.
Intelligent design tells us that windows doesn't need a swap file if
you have enough main memory, but windows has never done well when
forced to use main memory by reducing the swap file to a small size.
It will just thrash whatever swap file it has (poor memory management,
but hey, it's MS windows).