jmurx
join:2003-12-15
Utica, NY
| [XP Home] high commit charge prob
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? |
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DSmithLady
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-23
Deep South
clubs:  | Try using ctrl..alt..delete to check running processes/tasks. |
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jmurx
join:2003-12-15
Utica, NY | 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. |
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DSmithLady
Premium,MVM
join:2002-04-23
Deep South
clubs: | Is there any program...like your virus protection that may be 'phoning home? How about any scheduled task? |
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dave
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
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| reply to jmurx
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. |
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