High disk usage/high memory usage.

i keep getting high memory usage and high disk usage in ps cs6.
its slow when i open a file. how can i solve this problem.
thank you.
philip.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but more than what? More RAM is almost always better, but you haven't answered most of the questions posed here. The answer might be different if you have 2 GB of RAM or 32 GB of RAM already. A 9 megapixel document could get rather large with a lot of layers, but again you've neglected to give any hard info about its size.
Regarding your video card, that's a bit of a judgment call you need to make. For Photoshop CS6 I currently advise people to try to get a video card that gets a score of 1000 or better on this benchmark: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Video card speed will matter when you're editing those 3D components and video card VRAM will also matter, but possibly even more importantly your GeForce 320 is a bit old, and nVidia may just not be doing their best driver work for it any more.
Everything in general will run more smoothly with a powerful modern video card. I like to recommend a VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 7750 - or if the computer power supply and your budget allow, the even more powerful 7850. VisionTek does a very good job with their hardware, IMO, and it comes with a lifetime guarantee.
Keep in mind that if you switch from nVidia to ATI or vice versa, you should carefully sweep your system to ensure all files from the old card are removed, then visit the web site of the new card's maker and download/install their latest display driver release.
Best of luck.
-Noel

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We use win2003,win2008,win2012 servers.
I heard somewhere that Microsoft recommendation threshold of disk usage monitoring is ( free disk space >= 15- 20 %) , if I remember correctly, but how about CPU usage and memory usage monitoring ?
What are Microsoft- or other's-best practice or recommendation of Disk usage, CPU usage, memory usage monitoring to prevent system trouble and improve availability ?

Hi,
You can refer the following Performance Tuning Guidelines,
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2003
http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/8/0/2800a518-7ac6-4aac-bd85-74d2c52e1ec6/tuning.doc
Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/archive/2010/08/27/performance-tuning-guidelines-for-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
WINDOWS SERVER 2012 - PERFORMANCE TUNING GUIDELINES
http://blogs.technet.com/b/itprocol/archive/2012/11/27/windows-server-2012-performance-tuning-guidelines.aspx
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How to find out CPU and memory usage for an instance?

Hi DBA Gurus,
How to find out CPU usage and memory usage for an instance?
Any information is appreciated!
Thank you!
Robert

you can calculate cpu usage by adding fallowing three factors which you can get from v$sysstat
1. Parse CPU time : This represents the percentage of CPU time spent parsing SQL statements. Parse time CPU can be a strong indication that an application has not been well tuned. High parse time CPU usually indicates that the application may be spending too much time opening and closing cursors or is not using bind variables.
2. Recursive CPU time : Sometimes, to execute a SQL statement issued by a user, the Oracle Server must issue additional statements. Such statements are called recursive calls or recursive SQL statements. For example, if you insert a row into a table that does not have enough space to hold that row, the Oracle Server makes recursive calls to allocate the space dynamically if dictionary managed tablespaces are being used.
Recursive calls are also generated due to the inavailability of dictionary info in the dictionary cache, firing of database triggers, execution of DDL, execution of SQL within PL/SQL blocks, functions or stored procedures and enforcement of referential integrity constraints
3. Other CPU time : This represents the percentage of time spent looking for buffers, fetching rows or index keys, etc. Generally, \"Other\" CPU should represent the highest percentage of CPU time out of the total CPU time used.
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total_agrigate_area+sga
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Gt70 2pc dominator Lag/stutter and high hard disk and memory usage

After Receiving the gt70 back from repairs (was repaired by msi) and installing some games my notebook started high disk usage and system responsiveness decreased very noticably i thought it was temporarily but it wasn't. When i played games i noticed stutters from time to time and i can see the hard drive Led being lit up completely when it happens, when i go to task manager i can see about 87% memory utilization but isn't about 3gb usage and hard drive being at 100% usage (even in idle most of time) and isn't using 3 mb/s, i'm not an expert with software related problems so i hope you go easy on me and thanks for your help.
EDIT: Sometimes the pc crashes and give me this notification "system thread exception not handled" i searched and says it's due to bad driver and requires booting from windows cd but obviously it is an embedded windows so i don't know what to do. Another problem which is minor is when i try to shutdown it says "please wait" and then boots into windows again, i have to restart and then shutdown or press the power button to shut it down.

You can refer the following links:
http://www.msi.com/faq/nb-740.html
http://www.msi.com/faq/nb-646.html
And also suggest to disable Windows Update, any antivirus activities, or unwanted processes.

Very high memory usage..possible memory leak? Solaris 10 8/07 x64

Hi,
I noticed yesterday that my machine was becoming increasingly slow, where once it was pretty snappy. It's a Compaq SR5250NX with 1GB of RAM. Upon checking vmstat, I noticed that the "Free" column was ~191MB. Now, the only applications I had open were FireFox 2.0.11, GAIM, and StarOffice. I closed all of them, and the number reported in the "Free" column became approximately 195MB. "Pagefile" was about 5.5x that size. There were no other applications running and it's a single user machine, so I was the only one logged in. System uptime: 9 days.
I logged out, logged back in, to see if that had an affect. It did not. Rebooted and obviously, that fixed it. Now with only FireFox, GAIM, and a terminal open, vmstat reports "Free" as ~450MB. I've noticed if I run vmstat every few seconds, the "Free" total keeps going down. Example:
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870888 450220 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 595 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870880 450204 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 569 72 1 28
unknown% vmstat
kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap free re mf pi po fr de sr cd s0 s1 s2   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 870828 450092 9 27 10 0 1 0 8 2 -0 -0 -0 596 1193 570 71 1 28
unknown%Output of prstat -u Kendall (my username ) is as follows:
   PID USERNAME SIZE   RSS STATE PRI NICE      TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
2026 Kendall   124M   70M sleep   59    0   0:01:47 1.4% firefox-bin/7
1093 Kendall    85M   77M sleep   59    0   0:07:15 1.1% Xsun/1
1802 Kendall    60M   15M sleep   59    0   0:00:08 0.1% gnome-terminal/2
1301 Kendall    93M   23M sleep   49    0   0:00:30 0.1% java/14
1259 Kendall    53M   15M sleep   49    0   0:00:32 0.1% gaim/1
2133 Kendall 3312K 2740K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
1276 Kendall    51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:11 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
1247 Kendall    46M   10M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% metacity/1
1274 Kendall    51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% wnck-applet/1
1249 Kendall    56M   17M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% gnome-panel/1
1278 Kendall    48M 9240K sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% mixer_applet2/1
1245 Kendall 9092K 3844K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
1227 Kendall 8244K 4444K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% xscreensaver/1
1201 Kendall 4252K 1664K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sdt_shell/1
1217 Kendall    55M   16M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-session/1
   779 Kendall    47M 2208K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
   746 Kendall 5660K 3660K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% bonobo-activati/1
1270 Kendall    49M   10M sleep   49    0   0:00:00 0.0% clock-applet/1
1280 Kendall    47M 8904K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% notification-ar/1
1199 Kendall 2928K 884K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% dsdm/1
1262 Kendall    47M 2268K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% gnome-volcheck/1
Total: 37 processes, 62 lwps, load averages: 0.11, 0.98, 1.63System uptime is 9 hours, 48 minutes. I'm just wondering why the memory usage seems so high to do...nothing. It's obviously a real problem as the machine turned very slow when vmstat was showing 195MB free.
Any tips, tricks, advice, on which way to go with this?
Thanks!

Apologies for the delayed reply. School has been keeping me nice and busy.
Anyway, here is the output of prstat -Z:
   PID USERNAME SIZE   RSS STATE PRI NICE      TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
2040 Kendall      144M   76M sleep   59    0   0:04:26 2.0% firefox-bin/10
28809 Kendall     201M 193M sleep   59    0   0:42:30 1.9% Xsun/1
2083 Kendall      186M   89M sleep   49    0   0:02:31 1.2% java/58
2260 Kendall       59M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 1.0% gnome-terminal/2
2050 Kendall       63M   21M sleep   49    0   0:01:35 0.6% realplay.bin/4
2265 Kendall     3344K 2780K cpu1    59    0   0:00:00 0.2% prstat/1
29513 Kendall     71M   33M sleep   39    0   0:07:25 0.2% gaim/1
28967 Kendall     56M   18M sleep   59    0   0:00:24 0.1% gnome-panel/1
29060 Kendall     93M   24M sleep   49    0   0:02:58 0.1% java/14
28994 Kendall     51M   13M sleep   59    0   0:00:23 0.1% wnck-applet/1
28965 Kendall     49M   14M sleep   59    0   0:00:33 0.0% metacity/1
   649 noaccess   164M   46M sleep   59    0   0:09:54 0.0% java/23
28996 Kendall     51M   12M sleep   59    0   0:00:50 0.0% gnome-netstatus/1
2264 Kendall    1352K 972K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% csh/1
28963 Kendall 9100K 3792K sleep   59    0   0:00:03 0.0% gnome-smproxy/1
ZONEID    NPROC SWAP   RSS MEMORY      TIME CPU ZONE
     0           80          655M 738M    73%       1:18:40 7.7% global
Total: 80 processes, 322 lwps, load averages: 0.27, 0.27, 0.22Sorry about the bad formatting, it's copied from the terminal.
In any event, we can see that FireFox is sucking up 145MB (??!?!!? crazy...) XSun, 200MB, and java 190MB. I'm running Java Desktop System (Release 3) so I assume that is what accounts for the the high memory usage RE: java process. But, XSun, 200MB?
Is this normal and I just need to toss another gig in, or what?
Thanks

SA520W - High memory usage, possible fix in 2.2.0 firmware?

As suggested by Thomas Watts, I'm starting a new thread to discuss the new SA520W firmware (2.2.0) and a possible resolution to high memory usage I'm experiencing on my network.
My current setup is: 16Mbit DSL > SA520W > SA300-10, all with stock settings (no fancy VLAN's etc.)
I have 4 CentOS 5/6 servers and a Windows 7 Ultimate station connected to the switch. I use CIFS to connect from Windows station to the other Linux servers and send large files. I currently notice the following behavior:
When the file transfer starts, the Intel 1Gbit NIC is nearly saturated, hitting 115MB/sec. After few seconds, the data transfer comes to a halt and the transfer speed drops to around 50MB/sec. If I check the memory usage before the file transfer, it is approximately to 50-60% (on a fresh router reboot). Every time I send large files to other machines, the router memory consumption increases and it does not lower after a reasonable delay. I end-up with high memory near 90% and the only solution I have is to reboot the router in order to bring it back to 50%.
Now, Thomas told me that this is simply a cosmetic issue, the memory is not actually 90% used. Yet, when the memory hits this threshold, I'm not capable to send files are normal LAN speeds I'm used to. Rebooting the router allows me to send only ONCE (and for few seconds) data at the expected LAN speeds.
I would apreciate any input from Cisco engineers as well other users who experience the same issue. I would also like to know if any related work was done into 2.2.0 firmware and when we expect to have it released to users.
Regards,
Floren Munteanu

Hi Tom,
See below the answers.
Are you currently running the 2.1.71 code?
Yes
Are you using IPS?
No, the LAN is for internal use (no external users allowed)
Are you using Protectlink services?
No
Hardware wise, I did not changed anything on machines. All boxes have dual Intel EXPI9301CT NIC's (LACP was planned) but I currently use single connections for sanity reasons (disks won't allow greater speeds anyway). Previous to Cisco, I used a Netgear ProSafe router + switch which did not encountered the issues I mention. Honestly, at first I thought I'm dealing with some stupid disk issues on Windows. So I ran a quick test and the stats are proper:
> winsat disk -drive c
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Read                   109.62 MB/s        6.5
> Disk Random 16.0 Read                       2.47 MB/s          4.4
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate              2.12 ms/IO         6.9
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs                  8.34 units         7.4
> Responsiveness: Long IOs                     5.59 units         7.7
> Responsiveness: Overall                      46.63 units        7.1
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor                0.0
> Disk Sequential 64.0 Write                  117.03 MB/s        6.7
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes     6.977 ms           5.3
> Latency: 95th Percentile                     32.720 ms          3.0
> Latency: Maximum                             118.231 ms         7.6
> Average Read Time with Random Writes         13.346 ms          3.7
> Total Run Time 00:01:39.50
As I mentioned before, everything is pretty much stock on router/switch settings. If you have any tips that allow me to identify the cause, I would appreciate the input. What puzzles me is the speed drop and quick memory usage increase. It occurs 7-10 seconds after the transfers begins. It looks like the data transfer hangs for a very short period of time (less than half of second) and the transfer speed decreases from 110-115MB/sec to 50-60MB/sec. The transfer is completed at this speed. No matter how many other files I try to transfer after, the speed won't go higher than 60MB/sec. If I reboot the router, I get the same cycle.

RAM Issues + High disk usage on MSI GE60

Recently I've noticed that my system slowly eats up RAM. It starts off at 21% and can go as high up as 80% or more. When I'm playing games on it the RAM does not clear up properly either, it stays at 50% or so. This was an issue before that I somehow managed to solve, but it is back again.
As for high disk usage, that's been a problem since I've had the laptop.
OS: Windows 8
Processor: Intel Core i7 4700MQ (2.40GHz)
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M
RAM: 8GB Memory
HDD: 750GB
If you need more info I'll provide it.

If you open task manager-> performance -> open resource manager / you will see whats eating up your resources
if its windows see if indexing is off
did you installed 3rd party software diffrent than stock ?
how old is your laptop?
its not normal to have such high usage numbers !! i think its a program causing the problems !
if you check your resource manager you will be able to see whats causing it
ps if possible please post a screen shot and ill look into it

"Installer" high memory usage

Hey Guys, I been having problems with my mac. I'm running 10.8.5 on my 2008 Power mac tower and recently I have been having problems with my mac
going real slow. I opened Activity Monitor and Noticed something called "Installer" and it was using 90% of my memory and the only thing I can do is quit the process. Does anyone know why this is happening?

I ran EtreCheck and i'll post my results. I will add more ram after I fix the problem, and adding an SSD is a good option. I thought about it but
I was holding off because I was thinking of buying a new computer. I will try to keep my sysstem drive clean in the future. After Linc Davis posted about the Trojan i'm planning of doing that. I have a cloned mac drive, I updated the other day using SuperDuper.
My EtreCheck info
Problem description:
“Installer” app is running using High Memory Usage.
EtreCheck version: 2.0.11 (98)
Report generated November 14, 2014 2:06:44 PM PST
Hardware Information: ℹ️
Mac Pro (Early 2008) (Verified)
Mac Pro - model: MacPro3,1
2 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon CPU: 8-core
8 GB RAM
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 1
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 2
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 1
4 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 2
4 GB DDR2 FB-DIMM 800 MHz ok
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 3
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser B/DIMM 4
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 3
empty empty empty empty
DIMM Riser A/DIMM 4
empty empty empty empty
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Video Information: ℹ️
ATI Radeon HD 2600 - VRAM: 256 MB
HP 2509 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.8.5 (12F45) - Uptime: 0:11:2
Disk Information: ℹ️
WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B0 disk0 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
disk0s1 (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Hard Drive (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 999.35 GB (456.96 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
WDC WD10EACS-00D6B0 disk1 : (1 TB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
disk1s1 (disk1s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Media Drive (disk1s2) /Volumes/Media Drive : 999.86 GB (30.09 GB free)
WDC WD3200AAJS-41VWA0 disk2 : (320.07 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
disk2s1 (disk2s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Archive Drive (disk2s2) /Volumes/Archive Drive : 319.73 GB (58.25 GB free)
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub
Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard
Seagate Backup+ Desk 3 TB
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
disk4s1 (disk4s1) <not mounted> : 315 MB
Seagate (disk4s2) /Volumes/Seagate : 3.00 TB (2.41 TB free)
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Tablet PTK-640
Firewire Information: ℹ️
WD Passport III 800mbit - 800mbit max
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
disk5s1 (disk5s1) <not mounted> : 32 KB
GRPHX Drive 2 (disk5s3) /Volumes/GRPHX Drive 2 : 499.97 GB (126.10 GB free)
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
/System/Library/Extensions
[loaded] at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch (4216 - SDK 10.8) Support
[loaded] com.sophos.kext.sav (9.2.0 - SDK 10.8) Support
[loaded] com.sophos.nke.swi (9.2.0 - SDK 10.8) Support
[not loaded] com.wacom.kext.wacomtablet (6.3.7 - SDK 10.8) Support
Problem System Launch Agents: ℹ️
[failed] com.apple.accountsd.plist
[failed] com.apple.coreservices.appleid.authentication.plist
Launch Agents: ℹ️
[running] at.obdev.LittleSnitchUIAgent.plist Support
[not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[running] com.bjango.istatmenusagent.plist Support
[running] com.bjango.istatmenusnotifications.plist Support
[running] com.extensis.FMCore.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.uiserver.plist Support
[running] com.wacom.wacomtablet.plist Support
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[running] at.obdev.littlesnitchd.plist Support
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[invalid?] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist Support
[running] com.bjango.istatmenusdaemon.plist Support
[running] com.crashplan.engine.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
[loaded] com.quark.quarkupdate.plist Support
[running] com.sophos.common.servicemanager.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
[running] com.genieo.completer.download.plist Support
[loaded] com.genieo.completer.update.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[loaded] com.redgiantsoftware.updater.plist Support
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist Support
[loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
CrashPlan menu bar UNKNOWN (missing value)
Spotify Application (/Applications/Spotify.app)
CrashPlan menu bar Application (/Applications/CrashPlan.app/Contents/Helpers/CrashPlan menu bar.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
AdobeAAMDetect: Version: AdobeAAMDetect 1.0.0.0 - SDK 10.6 Support
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.1
Flash Player: Version: 15.0.0.223 - SDK 10.6 Support
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.1 Support
WacomNetscape: Version: 2.1.0-1 - SDK 10.8 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.0.0 Support
WacomTabletPlugin: Version: WacomTabletPlugin 2.1.0.2 Support
JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
Safari Extensions: ℹ️
1Password
Searchme
Slick Savings
Amazon Shopping Assistant
Ebay Shopping Assistant
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player Support
Quark Update Preferences Support
WacomTablet Support
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      46% Installer
      1% WindowServer
      1% SystemUIServer
      1% Google Chrome
      1% ps
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
5.43 GB Installer
198 MB Mail
163 MB InterCheck
163 MB SophosScanD
137 MB SophosAntiVirus
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
7 MB Free RAM
3.95 GB Active RAM
3.95 GB Inactive RAM
676 MB Wired RAM
488 MB Page-ins
309 MB Page-outs

Alerts from Norton re high memory usage by plugin-container.exe

Running Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. The details from Norton are as follows:
1. Program Path C:\program files\Mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe
2. Program Description - Plugin Container for Firefox
3. Memory - 1,676 MB used
4. Disk Write Activity - 10 MB (total for this process)
5. File Origin - Source File = updater.exe, File Created: firefox.exe,updater.exe,plugin-container.exe

Probably the alerts are nothing to worry about, and you may wish to suppress that particular alert.
On a couple of old spec legacy machines I recently switched. <br>Partly because of economics, and partly because , of the two, <br> Norton can perform better (in my opinion) on legacy machines.
The first thing I did notice was that Norton does pulse updates and background tasks very frequently (configurations can be changed) by default, and flags up quite a number of alerts.
The Norton (NIS) 'Insight' facility will be flagging up firefox plugin container.exe. It can be configured to suppress the alerts from firefox plugin container, but unless disabled will probably just flag up another busy process or application. It is not flagging it up because it is a known security problem, merely because of the amount of activity.
I imagine the alerts are when you are playing videos, probably with FlashPlayer, and may well depend on the resolution/quality of the videos.
If you think the results are unusual or unexpected see:
*[[High memory usage]]
*[[Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources]]
PS not sure what is happening with this post are some phrases unacceptable eg alternative expressions about economics; one paragraph was behaving oddly in preview resorted to manually adding break tags to keep it within the container.

Slowed speed, freezes, high disk usage

After I have been on the computer for about 10-15 minutes, it starts to freeze and slow down. I get a high disk usage message from Norton saying that Windows Explorer Exe. is causing this. I also keep getting the same 5 updates even after I have installed them. I have a Compaq Presario SR5602FH Desktop PC Using windows home basic. Also the Hp updater does not open anymore.

Norton is pretty good but you still could have viruses. I don't think you do and I believe it is your hard drive going bad. I would try to run check disk and if your laptop has the utility partition, test your memory and hard drive.
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Norton reports high memory usage with firefox and it crashes often

Norton antivirus 2011 has pop up warnings reporting high memory usage from Firefox. I have been getting theem often and my computer is crashing often after those pop up warnings. Thanks

Safe mode did not help.
I have disabled ALL extensions and plug-ins, but the problem with "zig-zag" memory usage still remains (I've not tried to leave browser open for the night yet).
I think I'll do clean reinstall with completely new empty profile (without sync'ed information) to try this out. If this works, I'll start adding stuff (configuration, sync, features, etc) to see what causes the problem.

Very high memory usage with Yahoo Mail

After using Yahoo Mail for an hour or so my memory usage increases to a very high level.
Just now, after reading and deleting about 50 e-mails (newsletters etc.) I noticed Firefox 17 running slowly and checked the memory usage in Windows Task Manager (I am using XP) and it was 1.2 Gb. My older laptop only has 2 Gb of RAM. Yahoo Mail was the only thing open at the time.
I never notice this problem with Gmail which I mainly use. However I use Yahoo Mail for quite a few newsletters etc. that are less important and which I only check once a week or so.
I found the following bug report about 3 years old which almost exactly describes my problem.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506771
But this report involves a much earlier Firefox version, and at the end it seems to say that the problem was fixed. However it well describes my current issue with Firefox 17, especially the continual increase in memory while using the up/down arrow keys to scroll through Yahoo e-mails.
Is this normal to have to shut down and reopen Firefox every hour or so to clean out the memory? For some reason I only notice this when using Yahoo Mail. After using many other sites and having multiple tabs open for several hours I rarely reach that kind of memory usage. About the highest I've seen with other sites after a couple of hours is 600 Kb which is roughly when I start notice slower response times.

See also:
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do not click the Reset button on the Safe mode start window or otherwise make changes.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

Extremely high memory usage after upgrading to Firefox 12

After I upgraded to Firefox 12, I began frequently experiencing Firefox memory usage ballooning extremely high (2-3GB after a few minutes of light browsing). Sometimes it will drop back down to a more reasonable level (a few hundred MB), sometimes it hangs (presumably while trying to garbage collect everything), and sometimes it crashes. Usually the crashing thread cannot be determined, but when it can be, it is in the garbage collection code ( [https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/list?signature=js%3A%3Agc%3A%3AMarkChildren%28JSTracer*%2C+js%3A%3Atypes%3A%3ATypeObject*%29] ).
I was able to capture an about:memory report when Firefox had gotten to about 1.5 GB and have attached an image.
A couple of things I've tried. I have lots of tabs open (though the Don't load tabs until selected option is enabled), so I copied my profile, kept all my extensions enabled, but closed all my tabs. I then left a page open to http://news.google.com/ and it ran fine for several days, whereas my original profile crashes multiple times a day.
I also tried disabling most of my extensions, leaving the following extensions that I refuse to browse without:
Adblock Plus
BetterPrivacy
NoScript
PasswordMaker
Perspectives
Priv3
However, the problem still happened in that case.
Don't know if any of this helps or not. I'm looking forward to trying Firefox 13 when it comes out.

hello, thanks for reporting back with detailed information.
from a brief look at your extensions i don't recognize any known (to me at least) memory leaking ones. in the last weeks there were also reports about the java plugin causing high memory consumption in combination with firefox 12 - in case you have it installed in firefox > addons > plugins try disabling it for a few days & test how firefox is behaving with many tabs.
& although probably not related to the memory problems you could update your graphics driver to get better results with hardware acceleration in firefox - this is the latest driver by intel for your model & os:
[http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21135&lang=eng&OSVersion=Windows%207%20%2864-bit%29*&DownloadType=Drivers]

Firefox becomes really slow then eventually unresponsive when loading a page with many hires images. Unsual high memory usage up to 2gigs just for firefox. Was never a problem with v3.6.

When loading a page with many hires images, Firefox becomes really slow and scrolling becomes jumpy then eventually becomes completely unresponsive. Unusual high memory usage of up to 2gigs just for firefox when loading these pages. This was never a problem with v3.6.

I encountered the same type of problem. Firefox running terribly slowly and slowing down my entire machine (Core i5 with 256GB SSD). Searching the forums, I found a couple of things about troubleshooting performance issues, one of which was to use '''hardware acceleration''', that is on by default. It was turned on on my PC, '''so I tried deactivating it, and it worked!'''
So doing the exact opposite as Mozilla support said solved the problem. It is really a pain now to work with Firefox. I'm using it because I have no choice, but I'd recommend IE and Chrome over Firefox... Whatever, the market will decide once Firefox has become to crappy...

Memory leaks- high memory usage svchost.exe

hello!
im having a kind of a similar problem. Im using a Q6600 with 4Gb of RAM running on Windows 7 x64. My physical memory usage history is 1.75GB idle but my CPU usage looks good ~ 0%.
In Windows Task Manager when i arranged the memory column, the process with the highest memory usge is svchost.exe with 116,572K. And i have 14 svchost.exe in my computer! I opened process exporer and check the legitimate of all those svchost.exe
and they are all legit. When i look at the properties of the highest svchost.exe in process explorer, the services which is running under it is as follows
AudioEndPointBuilder c:\Windows\System32\Audiosrv.dll
CscService c:\Windows\System32\cscsvc.dll
hidserv c:\Windows\System32\hidserv.dll
Netman c:\Windows\System32\netman.dll
PcaSvc c:\Windows\System32\pcasvc.dll
SysMain c:\Windows\System32\sysmail.dll
TrkWks c:\Windows\System32\trkwks.dll
UxSms c:\Windows\System32\uxsms.dll
wudfsvc c:\Windows\System32\WUDFSvc.dll
All are legit DLLS.
Is it normal to have 14 svchost.exe running at the same time(system, local service, network service in Task Manager)
and how can i reduce the memory usage of the svchost.exe?

Hi,
There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe running at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate services can
be run depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started.
If you would like to reduce the usage of this service, I could share the following article with you:
Getting Started with SVCHOST.EXE Troubleshooting
PRF: High CPU (SVCHOST.EXE)
Hope it helps.
Alex Zhao
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