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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
3 data related questions.
I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
Micky wrote:
3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? 1) AV scan ? 2) Paging has to have a policy defined, as to when the system is under pressure, and when pages of not-recently-referenced memory should be paged out. An action such as Firefox using some memory to open another web page or tab, might be sufficient to trigger the activity. (Firefox can "balloon up and shrink again" as part of its behavior, which can rock the boat for the rest of the system.) 3) Perhaps. Paul |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
[Default] On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:10:25 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Paul wrote: Micky wrote: 3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? 1) AV scan ? That one thing was the only really wierd thing I've seen, but I'll do the AV scan eventually. 2) Paging has to have a policy defined, as to when the system is under pressure, and when pages of not-recently-referenced memory should be paged out. An action such as Firefox using some memory to open another web page or tab, might be sufficient to trigger the activity. (Firefox can "balloon up and shrink again" as part of its behavior, which can rock the boat for the rest of the system.) Okay. 3) Perhaps. I'll let you know in a few months. Paul |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
Micky wrote:
3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 32 bit or 64 bit? |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
[Default] On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:49:28 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Paul in Houston TX wrote: Micky wrote: 3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 32 bit or 64 bit? 32 bit. |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
Micky wrote:
[Default] On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:49:28 -0500, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Paul in Houston TX wrote: Micky wrote: 3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 32 bit or 64 bit? 32 bit. Max on a 32 bit system is ~4.3g (2^32). Able to use is ~3.3g. Assuming that your computer can handle over 2g ram I would definitely install 4g total, asap. Over that is a waste of money. |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 19:19:11 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: Micky wrote: [Default] On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:49:28 -0500, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Paul in Houston TX wrote: Micky wrote: 3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 32 bit or 64 bit? 32 bit. Max on a 32 bit system is ~4.3g (2^32). Able to use is ~3.3g. Assuming that your computer can handle over 2g ram I would definitely install 4g total, asap. Over that is a waste of money. Thanks. |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
On 13/04/2016 11:20 AM, Micky wrote:
3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? Sounds like an anti-virus scan to me. I used to see my AV scanning some weird irrelevant files at random times when I was least expecting it. Usually it was scanning some files in my Thunderbird directories. I got rid of the problem by putting an exclusion in the AV setup for those folders. 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? Yes, it makes perfect sense, at 83% usage, you're probably actually over 100% usage, and programs are having to store or retrieve their data from the pagefile. It's pegged at 83% simply because some of that RAM space needs to be used as disk cache, and so is not available to programs to use. As disk cache, you're still actually using that "free space". If you look under Resource Monitor, under the Memory tab, you'll see a horizontal stacked bar graph with 5 categories represented: Hardware Reserved, In Use (this what the programs use), Modified (this is also the programs), Standby (this is the disk cache), and Free (actually unused RAM). In my case, I have 16GB of RAM, and it's shown as only 32% in use: the vast majority is being shown as Standby (9361 MB), while actually Free is only 1697 MB. If you want to know which programs are using the pagefile the most, then sort your memory list by Hard Faults/sec, that tells you which programs are looking for a particular piece of data in RAM and finding it's not there, and having to go to the disk to retrieve it instead. 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? You won't see no use of the pagefile, as even just the act of loading a program for the first time shows up as a hard fault. But it will reduce your hard faults quite a bit. Actually these days even 4GB is not even enough for the programs these days. You actually need a mimimum of 6GB to have a comfortable system, but in that case you also need the 64-bit version of your OS. Yousuf Khan |
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3 data related questions. unrelated file in use, RAM, pagefile
Great post. Thank you. I'll try answer in more detail later, esp. if manage to check out the meters you mention. [Default] On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:46:41 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Yousuf Khan wrote: On 13/04/2016 11:20 AM, Micky wrote: 3 data related questions. I'm using Vista but it's a lot like w7, and these questions apply to XP too, I think. 1) Coming out of Windows sleep or maybe FFox crashing, I'm looking at Win Resource Monitor, Disk, and I see about 500,000,000 Bytes/minute being read from C:\downloads\xp-downloads\COL18341.exe which has nothing to do with anything. It's some sort of Photosmart Premier 7.5 for HP that I downloaded for some reason 3 years ago. I've never run it. I don't know how long the transfer lasted but it was showing in the Monitor window least 20 seconds. The program never started or anything and after it was gone from the Monitor window, I saw no trace of it. What the heck was happening and why? Why this file? Sounds like an anti-virus scan to me. I used to see my AV scanning some weird irrelevant files at random times when I was least expecting it. Usually it was scanning some files in my Thunderbird directories. I got rid of the problem by putting an exclusion in the AV setup for those folders. 2) Even when I'm only using 80% of my RAM, I think I still see a lot of reading or writing the pagefile. Not in volume of data maybe but from more than one program, right now, explorer, lsass, firefox, system, avgsnx, eudora, all reading from pagefile at the same time, with 83% of RAM in use. Does that make sense? Yes, it makes perfect sense, at 83% usage, you're probably actually over 100% usage, and programs are having to store or retrieve their data from the pagefile. It's pegged at 83% simply because some of that RAM space needs to be used as disk cache, and so is not available to programs to use. As disk cache, you're still actually using that "free space". If you look under Resource Monitor, under the Memory tab, you'll see a horizontal stacked bar graph with 5 categories represented: Hardware Reserved, In Use (this what the programs use), Modified (this is also the programs), Standby (this is the disk cache), and Free (actually unused RAM). In my case, I have 16GB of RAM, and it's shown as only 32% in use: the vast majority is being shown as Standby (9361 MB), while actually Free is only 1697 MB. If you want to know which programs are using the pagefile the most, then sort your memory list by Hard Faults/sec, that tells you which programs are looking for a particular piece of data in RAM and finding it's not there, and having to go to the disk to retrieve it instead. 3) Anyhow, the computer is functioning well almost all the time, but I see a lot of reading and writing that pagefile If I had two more gigs of RAM, 4 gigs total, and was running the same number of programs and the same OS, would I expect to see no use of the pagefile? You won't see no use of the pagefile, as even just the act of loading a program for the first time shows up as a hard fault. But it will reduce your hard faults quite a bit. Actually these days even 4GB is not even enough for the programs these days. You actually need a mimimum of 6GB to have a comfortable system, but in that case you also need the 64-bit version of your OS. Yousuf Khan |