Oddest freaking memory usage ever.

[Mashuga]

I'm on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate, 8GBs of DDR3-1600 and have the swapfile disabled.

Does this seem normal to anyone?.. Why is 'Modified' so damn high? :shadedshu

 

[Mussels]

you tell us, check task manager processes to see whats using it all

 

[95Viper]

Try letting Windows manage the swap file and checking it.
Your commit is at 60%, so it is all in your memory.
It has to go somewhere, when it needs to be paged.

Quote from Wiki:

"In computing, commit charge is a term used in Microsoft Windows operating systems to describe the total amount of pageable virtual address space for which no backing store is assigned other than the pagefile. On systems with a pagefile, it may be thought of as the maximum potential pagefile usage. On systems with no pagefile, it is still counted, but all such virtual address space must remain in physical memory (RAM) at all times."

Here is a real nice article on the subject: Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory on Mark Russinovich's blog

 

[Mussels]

lol well thats an easy enough answer than, turn the pagefile back on

 

[Mashuga]

you tell us, check task manager processes to see whats using it all

If you look at the image I posted, that's out of the Windows Taskmanager's Resource Monitor, so indeed, I've already done as you suggested.

Swap's been disabled since I installed the OS (year ago, roughly) and this is the first time modified's been greater than actual in-use memory.

 

[95Viper]

What (now, I am assuming and we know what can happen when something is assumed, but I believe-IMO) Mussel's was trying to get at is, you need to look at what is running on your system and figure up the memory usage by the services/processes/programs running.

That little screen shot is not giving the total picture of what is being used... only a sampling.

Sort of like, I take a picture of a street in a city and ask you to draw me a map of the complete city.

Something is in your memory or swapping out to the memory, because you have no swapfile on the disk for it to go to. And, if you believe that is not the case, then check for nasties, programs that are recently installed(that may be mis-behaving and not releasing memory, buggy drivers, etc.)

If you have done what was suggested, I am at a loss for an answer at the moment. Maybe, someone else will have one.

Maybe a re-install of Windows is called for... to correct the issue.

Goodluck