Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: memory usage vs fan usage Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:08:42 +0100 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jEkmo0ccH0ePB2nB5VN0FgsLz87f+2o/sUgDP2WbKvS7vL5uB0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:9gBYlyVwr7HMHxslFIHGqne+PGM= sha256:+Di4f0eTKsafFOgwC3Csxvl7x8UED5z6xwEK0uHATz4= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-11:18481 Paul wrote: > Process Explorer is the tool you want. > It lists the Memory Compressor. Yes, I use the entire suite. until I disabled it (and rebooted) taskmgr listed memory compressor on mine, wouldn't show much detail, but then procexp doesn't show as much as for a normal process ... yes zillions of clock cycles > And if the Memory Compressor is active,something is responsible > for the symptoms. A single process can cause this to happen. Your > job is to figure out the root cause. well, i think this slim laptop has marginal cooling, any video will trip the fans on, just a couple of programs (FF/TB/LO) along with the compressor would be enough to ensure they rarely went off. > Memory Compressor is not bugged. Something is telling it to act, > and it is processing its particular flavour of input events. As far as I'm concerned, it's gone for good, seeing no harm from not running it, still have 1/3 of my 16GB available, very likely that non-required compression was pushing the CPU over the brink, rather than memory usage itself. > But part of the problem, is the Task Manager is not a very > honest accounting of machine activity it's a shame it used to be, but it quite often disagrees with procexp by a long way. and the extra two digits > of precision on Process Explorer may help you identify > active artifice (poorly written software, like a Classic Outlook > wrapped in a Webview2 wrapper and "spiking a CPU core"). I think it's just the machine and cutting the cpu from compression helps it to cope ... my ears appreciate it.