I'm using a machine that when booted, uses over 50% of the memory (way beyond the physical memory, majority of it is from the paging file-for nothing!). It then gets painfully slow... With just a browser, usage shoots to over 80%! A laptop on the same network behaves the same. The funny thing is that this memory is not accounted for (on the processes), and using other tools that show processes including hidden ones doesn't show either. There's Bitdeffender running, (laptop has kaspersky) and they are automatically updated. Both are on XP. Anyone familiar with this? Please help. -- Samuel Waithaka Techiepreneur | http://groups.to/techiepreneur http://blog.techiepreneur.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/waithaka http://twitter.com/samwaithaka
You say you are running Bitdefender and Kaspersky. That is a terrible idea because both anti-viruses will recursively check on what each other is doing, happily gobbling up memory. Pick one. As to finding out what is running the following tools - Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) - Tells you what runs at start up - ProcessExplorer ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) - Tells you what is currently running On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com>wrote:
I'm using a machine that when booted, uses over 50% of the memory (way beyond the physical memory, majority of it is from the paging file-for nothing!). It then gets painfully slow... With just a browser, usage shoots to over 80%! A laptop on the same network behaves the same. The funny thing is that this memory is not accounted for (on the processes), and using other tools that show processes including hidden ones doesn't show either. There's Bitdeffender running, (laptop has kaspersky) and they are automatically updated. Both are on XP. Anyone familiar with this? Please help. -- Samuel Waithaka Techiepreneur | http://groups.to/techiepreneur http://blog.techiepreneur.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/waithaka http://twitter.com/samwaithakaSkunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
Rad!, Thanks. I'm sure checking the tools. Do you mean PC's in a network shouldn't run different antiviruses; should be either one or the other for all machines? No machine has two antiviruses running. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
You say you are running Bitdefender and Kaspersky. That is a terrible idea because both anti-viruses will recursively check on what each other is doing, happily gobbling up memory. Pick one.
As to finding out what is running the following tools
- Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) - Tells you what runs at start up - ProcessExplorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) - Tells you what is currently running
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm using a machine that when booted, uses over 50% of the memory (way beyond the physical memory, majority of it is from the paging file-for nothing!). It then gets painfully slow... With just a browser, usage shoots to over 80%! A laptop on the same network behaves the same. The funny thing is that this memory is not accounted for (on the processes), and using other tools that show processes including hidden ones doesn't show either. There's Bitdeffender running, (laptop has kaspersky) and they are automatically updated. Both are on XP. Anyone familiar with this? Please help. -- Samuel Waithaka Techiepreneur | http://groups.to/techiepreneur http://blog.techiepreneur.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/waithaka http://twitter.com/samwaithakaSkunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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I thought you meant bitdefender and kaspersky were running on the same machine. Just investigate using the tools to see what your machine runs at strartup and currently then you can know what to do next. Laptopts especially have lots of crapware bundled by their manufacturers On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com>wrote:
Rad!,
Thanks. I'm sure checking the tools. Do you mean PC's in a network shouldn't run different antiviruses; should be either one or the other for all machines? No machine has two antiviruses running.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Rad! <conradakunga@gmail.com> wrote:
You say you are running Bitdefender and Kaspersky. That is a terrible idea because both anti-viruses will recursively check on what each other is doing, happily gobbling up memory. Pick one.
As to finding out what is running the following tools
- Autoruns ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) - Tells you what runs at start up - ProcessExplorer (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) - Tells you what is currently running
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I'm using a machine that when booted, uses over 50% of the memory (way beyond the physical memory, majority of it is from the paging file-for nothing!). It then gets painfully slow... With just a browser, usage shoots to over 80%! A laptop on the same network behaves the same. The funny thing is that this memory is not accounted for (on the processes), and using other tools that show processes including hidden ones doesn't show either. There's Bitdeffender running, (laptop has kaspersky) and they are automatically updated. Both are on XP. Anyone familiar with this? Please help. -- Samuel Waithaka Techiepreneur | http://groups.to/techiepreneur http://blog.techiepreneur.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/waithaka http://twitter.com/samwaithakaSkunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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That kind of a bug that reported in firefox causing mem leaks! The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole. --- On Thu, 11/12/09, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote: From: Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> Subject: [Skunkworks] What's Taking up Memory??! To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Date: Thursday, November 12, 2009, 12:18 AM I'm using a machine that when booted, uses over 50% of the memory (way beyond the physical memory, majority of it is from the paging file-for nothing!). It then gets painfully slow... With just a browser, usage shoots to over 80%! A laptop on the same network behaves the same. The funny thing is that this memory is not accounted for (on the processes), and using other tools that show processes including hidden ones doesn't show either. There's Bitdeffender running, (laptop has kaspersky) and they are automatically updated. Both are on XP. Anyone familiar with this? Please help. -- Samuel Waithaka Techiepreneur | http://groups.to/techiepreneur http://blog.techiepreneur.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/waithaka http://twitter.com/samwaithaka _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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