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2012-09-25, 20:13
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-25, 20:14 by Martijn.)
If you think 45% is fine then live with the 70% when xbmc is running!
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Win7 puts frequently used things into unused memory for faster launching of programs, faster access to data, etc. If this utilized memory is needed the cached stuff gets dropped (freed up) for use by the current application. This may or may not be what you are seeing but it really does not matter.
What matters is how is your HTPC performing during video playback? Are you able to navigate menu's smoothly? Does your computer perform well or sluggishly?
If you are not happy with your performance then you will want to track this stuff down.
You are running SB etc so this is NOT a dedicated HTPC. You likely have your videos stored on this machine... Probably running anti-virus software which is a likely culprit as this is scanning things you are downloading and scanns xbmc activity, scans the movies you play.... This is a situation a dedicated HTPC doesn't have.
Did you build this pc yourself and do a clean instal of Win7 or did you buy it from a store with a bunch of bloatware installed?
But, like I said, if your computer is built with the specs to handle this much multi-tasking then its no problem at all.
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Dude... fix the 45 %
It´s way too high for idle
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2012-09-26, 15:36
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-26, 20:10 by embedded.)
After investigating what is taking 30% of my ram I can say that adding a movie source and using theMovieDB for fanart
my memory usage jumps by 30%.
Does XBMC store its fanart data in memory?
Is it possible to move it to disk? I have SSD for it.
Please help me out currently I have no source in the movie/TV series categories.
10x
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Hi
prob cant help much with the fanart bit but i would sugest installing a ram saver prog that should free memory when its not in use if you get my drift i would consider adding more memory anyway, unless your at full capacity faster memory might help ,as to weather fanart is kept in memory i dontknow but i doubt it,im only a newbie to the forum and xbmc but hope this helps some.
kind regards
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2012-09-26, 16:21
(This post was last modified: 2012-09-26, 16:22 by embedded.)
Sorry here are the missing details:
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AMD A6 with dedicated AGU (ATI Radeon 6530 hd)
4 GB memory
Crucial 64 GB SSD
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
userdata is being stored on the storage disk - not SSD.
when I say 30% I mean that task manager shows that 45% is in used when XBMC launches it shows 75%.
This is 75% of 3.5GB (since 512 MB dedicated to GPU)
I really don't know why adding movies increases my memory usage.
I have 2 disk so I add 2 sources - one from each disk.
Hope this clarify things up a bit....
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As others have mentioned in your other thread, maybe Windows is caching some of these files in RAM for the sake of efficiency in retrieval. And if the RAM is needed for other, more critical, purposes, these cached files would get dumped. Does it really matter how much RAM is being utilized at a given point in time if there is no negative impact (and possibly some positive impact) on system performance? Would it be better to have RAM sitting around doing nothing just for the sake of seeing a lower utilization number?