http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r9892400 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:43:51 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:43:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9894623 dave : OK, so what we know is that your system's aggregate vm usage increases by about 800MB for a short while, and then returns to normal.

(The lousy-response part is explained by assuming your system is paging away like crazy).

So, the problem to reduces to figuring out what will cause this.

800MB is a lot of data. My guess is that something's sucking in a large file. For example, you'd get this sort of behaviour if you tried to edit a half-a-gigabyte file in Notepad (yes, I've done it) or some other editor.

800MB is a little larger than a CD-ROM. Not sharing any CDs, are you?

One approach that may work is to use Performance Monitor (Start->Programs->Admin Tools->Performance Monitor) to track memory usage versus process, so you can see what suddenly used a lot of memory. I haven't actually done this myself, so can't offer a detailed recipe.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9894623 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:49:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9894437 DSmithLady : Is there any program...like your virus protection that may be 'phoning home? How about any scheduled task?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9894437 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:28:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892713 jmurx : have already tried that. no luck. also tried a system restore and deleting startup programs. no luck. like i said before its never happened before, and i havent made any recent changes to my xp that would make it do this.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892713 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:17:14 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892670 DSmithLady : Try using ctrl..alt..delete to check running processes/tasks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892670 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 14:12:39 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892400 jmurx : Hello, Withihin the last couple of days ive been noticing that at random points my commit charge will spike to 950M and cause extreme lag to my computer. this lasts about a minute or so then goes back to its normal 160M. ive never had this problem before. my cpu is very protected and clean (or at least i think, lol). i run norton once a week, spybot/adaware twice a day, disk defrag once every month. this problem is very annoying because it makes the cpu impossible for about a minute everytime it happens. any suggestions on whats wrong or what i should do? ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9892400 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:44:07 EDT