Hi, hope somebody can shed a light. Have Vista Home Premium that when started
uses 50% of physical memory, and constantly increases... to 80% at the moment
(after 3 hours).

I can see that the main contributor is audiodg.exe currently at 960.000 KB
(according to Resource Monitor), (was using 810.000 KB an hour ago)... CPU is
within normal levels.

I am not playing any audio files or have games installed...
I am not expert in computers, but this does not seam normal. Am I correct?
If yes, what can I do?

Info:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2duo
4GB RAM

Any ideas where is the problem and how to solve it?

Thanks

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:23:00 -0800, s.dane
wrote:

Hi, hope somebody can shed a light. Have Vista Home Premium that when started
uses 50% of physical memory, and constantly increases... to 80% at the moment
(after 3 hours).

I can see that the main contributor is audiodg.exe currently at 960.000 KB
(according to Resource Monitor), (was using 810.000 KB an hour ago)... CPU is
within normal levels.

I am not playing any audio files or have games installed...
I am not expert in computers, but this does not seam normal. Am I correct?
If yes, what can I do?


No, you are not correct.

Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly
all, of your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free
memory is wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see
any of it wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps almost all your memory working for you all the
time.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Hi Ken,

I have a similar problem, in that sometimes when audiodg.exe runs it uses
just about all my spare memory...at which point my PC slows down to a crawl
or stops, and open windows "glaze over" and stop responding. Can you help as
to why this should be or, more importantly, how to fix it ?

Thanks for your help,

Pete

PS I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Mesh PC: 2 quad core 2.4GHz Intels, with
4x1GB DDR2 667MHz memory, Creative Soundblaster XFi Xtreme Gamer soundcard.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:23:00 -0800, s.dane
wrote:

Hi, hope somebody can shed a light. Have Vista Home Premium that when started
uses 50% of physical memory, and constantly increases... to 80% at the moment
(after 3 hours).

I can see that the main contributor is audiodg.exe currently at 960.000 KB
(according to Resource Monitor), (was using 810.000 KB an hour ago)... CPU is
within normal levels.

I am not playing any audio files or have games installed...
I am not expert in computers, but this does not seam normal. Am I correct?
If yes, what can I do?


No, you are not correct.

Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly
all, of your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free
memory is wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see
any of it wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps almost all your memory working for you all the
time.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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So Ken, can I quote you that using 100% of my memory is a good thing? Shall
I then just buy a radio to play my music? You see, when the memory used for
audiodg.exe is over 75% my sound goes crazy.... screeches, halts, static. But
this is a good thing because I am getting the full use of my memory?

Thanks....... that just seems a bit far-fetched to me. Can you try again?

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:23:00 -0800, s.dane
wrote:

Hi, hope somebody can shed a light. Have Vista Home Premium that when started
uses 50% of physical memory, and constantly increases... to 80% at the moment
(after 3 hours).

I can see that the main contributor is audiodg.exe currently at 960.000 KB
(according to Resource Monitor), (was using 810.000 KB an hour ago)... CPU is
within normal levels.

I am not playing any audio files or have games installed...
I am not expert in computers, but this does not seam normal. Am I correct?
If yes, what can I do?


No, you are not correct.

Wanting to minimize the amount of memory Windows uses is a
counterproductive desire. Windows is designed to use all, or nearly
all, of your memory, all the time, and that's good not bad. Free
memory is wasted memory. You paid for it all and shouldn't want to see
any of it wasted.

Windows works hard to find a use for all the memory you have all the
time. For example if your apps don't need some of it, it will use that
part for caching, then give it back when your apps later need it. In
this way Windows keeps almost all your memory working for you all the
time.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup