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Really large files held in Standby, see the image below. Standby column header to sort the figures as in the image below to determine the Open RAMMap when your Standby figure is too high and click the File Summary tab. How I found out what was the cause on this computer was achieved by following the procedure detailed below. Investigating what makes up the Standby figure may not be easy. In the example Microsoft Security Essentials has been scanning my G drive, which I have since excluded from future scans. The second image identifies the folders/ files. The first image below illustrates the problem. If you discover which files are being unnecessarily accessed you can exclude them from routine
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The solution lies in identifying the software that is accessing numerous files, either to check for malware or to index to facilitate Windows Search. Knowing the source you may be able to resolve the problem by contacting the provider of the software and / or updating The procedure using RAMMap is an effective workaround but the true solution lies in discovering the source of the problem.
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This action instantly restores Free memory. If it is, open RAMMap, click Empty on the Menu bar and Empty Standby list. Click the Memory tab and check whether Free is near to Zero or is Zero. When you sense the system is becoming unresponsive use Ctrl+Shift+Esc to access Task Manager. Another way to force the release of Standby memory is available using RAM Map (freeware from Microsoft):ĭownload and install, and create a shortcut on your Desktop to RAMMap and / or pin to your Taskbar. You can force release by restarting your computer but often this is not very convenient. Your system is holding on to Standby memory and not releasing it toįree memory. This seems like Windows isn't managing the memory properly. So it's not that the standby memory won't release, I didn't get to see in the first test but did in the last two was that when windows gives the low/no memory error it then starts to release the standby memory, but it's too slow and memory allocation fails. Standby memory (2.5GB) Same problem again. Same as other tests but DIDN'T run Overwatch. Opened the last program and same error.ģ. Opened programs to get to close to 0 Free/Zero MBytes, refreshed RAMMap but standby memory stayed. RAMMap showed the large overwatch files in standby memory which at the time I would expect it to as I still had over 6GB Free (according to RAMMap). According to Taskmgr->Details Overwatch was no longer running. Taskmgr showed that is was only using 9.7GB at the time.Ģ. One more small memory footprint program to see if the standby memory would free but instead had errors with programs not being able to allocate memory. The standby memory stayed very close to the same size (checked this by refreshing RAMMap a number of times during the testing period). While running Overwatch, loaded as many programs/webrowser tabs as I could to get Zero + Free close to 0 MBytes. It quickly climbs to about 2.5GB (most being mapped files) when I open my standard programs.ġ.
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Windows 10 not releasing standby memory when required.Ī restart does indeed free the standby memory. And when it is full, something crashes anyway so it is kinda too late.
Although emptying standby lists solves it (temporarily), I don’t want to constantly check if my memory is full. Then I probably restart, which is inconvenient most of the time as you might guess. Even then, the same thing happens after an hour.
What I usually do is open up RAMMap and “Empty Standby Lists”. My question is, is this a Windows/software related problem or is my RAM hardware messing up? I haven’t updated Windows in around a year, could this be the reason? Is it normal that my computer always keeps 8 GB of standby memory around?
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Sometimes the whole PC loses its shit and freezes (which I’m not sure is entirely related to this since I can’t check the memory before forcing a restart) And since there isn’t enough memory available, the game lags, then freezes then crashes. It occupies half of my RAM (so, around 8/16 gigs) but doesn’t free it up even though it is needed. What happens is, when I’m gaming usually, the computer builds up standby memory (super fast). So I’m having a memory problem which is causing programs to freeze and/or crash.
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