Free Physical Memory drops to Zero right after reset

I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes fro
4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat

What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram an
only explorer running

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rkhinman

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rkhinman wrote:
> I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes from
> 4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat.
>
> What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram and
> only explorer running.
>
>

Hi,
Vista manages memory differently than previous operating systems. It trys to
use as much as it can to anticpate what you will be doing based on its
experience since you started to use the system so that applictions, etc will
start faster. It is called Prefetch. It will allocate memory as need to
unanticipated programs. This is normal.
Free memory is wasted memory in this system.

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Paul


"rkhinman" wrote:

>
> I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes from
> 4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat.
>
> What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram and
> only explorer running.
>
>
> --
> rkhinman
>

"rkhinman" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes from
> 4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat.
>
> What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram and
> only explorer running.
>
>
> --
> rkhinman

Seems extreme alright. Check the Processes list (enable Show processes from
all users) in Task Manager to see which are using up the largest chunks of
memory.

RalfG;1191371 Wrote:
> "rkhinman" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> >
> > I have 4 gigs of RAM and Vista Home Premium. My memory free goes from
> > 4000 to 9 in about seven minutes flat.
> >
> > What is going on? Dropping to 0 is sorta nuts with 4 gigs of ram and
> > only explorer running.
> >
> >
> > --
> > rkhinman
>
> Seems extreme alright. Check the Processes list (enable Show processes
> from
> all users) in Task Manager to see which are using up the largest chunks
> of
> memory.

I am having a similar problem with my machine and it is causing all
kinds of performance issues. I have looked at my processes and the
svchost application seems to be the biggest pig. Not sure what to do. Do
we have control over the "prefetch" process??? Thanks in advance for any
other advice or lessons learned in this area.


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