I have a RTM build of Windows 7 on my work desktop. I brought up task manager after leaving the system on for about a week and found the following:
Now I am trying to use the machine just like I would use Vista or XP except that I, until this point, hadn’t yet loaded firefox to do the majority of my browsing. This machine has 8 total cores and 16GB of RAM in it, so wasn’t experiencing any performance issues using this much RAM, but it still seems excessive. Normally with past Internet Explorer use I try to make a habit of closing tabs and restarting the browser occasionally, but as I said I was trying to treat it the same way I would firefox and put it through its paces.
Anyone else experience this? I’m not sure if the excessive amount of RAM that I have is part of the reason this happened. In other words, would this have happened if I had 2GB of RAM? Are they caching data in RAM such as my browsing history to make it quick to go back?
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I have the exact same problem. UP to 20 or more of these instances are running….
i just installed Windows 7 on my PC. i just hope that it is as stable as Windows XP.
I’ve always found IE to be the slowest, most memory-hogging of all the browsers, which is why I try to stick with Chrome or Firefox.
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I am experiencing the same problem. Earlier I had 2 gb ram and now I have 4 gb ram. Performance is same but usage of ram has increased..
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a gig and a half… that is crazy!
I’m pretty much impressed with the stability of Windows 7. It is better than windows Vista which hogs my memory and cpu.:`,
my firefox does that!
Yes, FireFox randomly bugs like that too. Odd combinations of versions, plugins, and extensions. The pain with FireFox is that it is always a moving target, and I get so used to my extensions that I hate to give them up one at a time or go through a long troubleshooting process to figure out what is causing the problems. I guess my solution is to never use a computer with less than 4GB of RAM and then restart FireFox on a regular basis.