Memory usage goes way down after putting Vista to sleep...

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riffwraith

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Greets all. :D

So, I was in for a bit of a shock to see my PF usage go from 120MB (XP Pro) to 786 MB with Vista Ult 64. Ok - it's all good. It actually is just over 900 right after boot, but settles to about 786 after about a minute of sitting idle.

The thing I noticed it that after putting the computer to sleep, and then waking it, my PF usage is at 534 MB - HUGE difference. I left it idle for about 20 min. to see if it would creep back up, but it didn't.

Two things I noticed:

svchost went from about 59k > 47k
explorer went from about 14k > 5k

So, that's part of it.

But the big question here is how to get Vista to boot that way? - so it's usage is at 534 MB as opposed to 786 MB. I understand there arre services I can disable (print spooler for one, as I do not have a printer hooked to this computer), but the point here is the usage dropped that drastically without disabling anything in services.msc. Any way to get Vista to boot, so the mem usgae is the same as after it is put to sleep?

Thanks much in advance.
 

My Computer

System One

Hello RiffWraithm and welcome to Vista Forums.

This is pretty much controlled by what you have loading at startup and Superfetch in Vista. It loads what it thinks you will need into memory to help Vista run it faster. It learns in time what you may need in memory, so it will fluctuate a bit until it learns your pattern completely. I would recommend that you let Superfetch stay set at the default settings since it does a pretty good job in Vista. Remember, unused RAM is wasted RAM.

If you would like to play around with the Superfetch settings a bit to see if anything may make a difference for you, then these tutorials can help with this.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/72293-superfetch-memory-prefetcher.html

and

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/108833-superfetch-change-preload-data.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Custom
    CPU
    Intel i7-8700K 5 GHz
    Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390
    Memory
    64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz (F4-3600C18D-32GTZR)
    Graphics Card(s)
    ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING
    Sound Card
    Integrated Digital Audio (S/PDIF)
    Monitor(s) Displays
    2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27"
    Screen Resolution
    2560x1440
    Hard Drives
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2,
    4TB Samsung 990 PRO PRO M.2,
    8TB WD MyCloudEX2Ultra NAS
    PSU
    Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W
    Case
    Thermaltake Core P3
    Cooling
    Corsair Hydro H115i
    Keyboard
    Logitech wireless K800
    Mouse
    Logitech MX Master 3
    Internet Speed
    1 Gb/s Download and 35 Mb/s Upload
    Other Info
    Logitech Z625 speaker system,
    Logitech BRIO 4K Pro webcam,
    HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M477fdn,
    APC SMART-UPS RT 1000 XL - SURT1000XLI,
    Galaxy S23 Plus phone
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Pro
    Manufacturer/Model
    HP Envy Y0F94AV
    CPU
    i7-7500U @ 2.70 GHz
    Memory
    16 GB DDR4-2133
    Graphics card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
    Sound Card
    Conexant ISST Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17.3" UHD IPS touch
    Screen Resolution
    3480 x 2160
    Hard Drives
    512 GB M.2 SSD
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