Well I've had small issues where as when I play music or a movie, it'll freeze for like a second or 2. And server uses alot of core. Anyone have any fixes? Thanks

what media player do you use?

also tell me more about your system.

and welcome to the site!

I use mirc for music, wmp, and wmp. My system is HP Dv7t 1000 CTO. 4 gig ram, intel centrino dual core, nvidia 9600GT graphics. And thanks for the welcome.

This might be cause by excessive thrashing This is when the disk becomes extremely slow becuase it is taking too much resources to keep the application alive and it is not contributing anything. Please see the wiki link below.

other applications running and not doing anything can cause thrashing. Specially after not being messed with for an extended period of time.

WMP11 has alot of what's called I/O reads. This is normal becuase as of right now my I/O reads for WMP11 are:

I/O Reads:612,003,098 (wmp has been open for 4 days)
commit charge (paging file usage):167,658K
RAM Usage:9,478K (working set)

this is kinda like packets transferred. I have one playlist file with 55 hours of music on the "list pane" and another playlist in the library main view that is 6 hours long. WMP has been open since 4 days ago. I normally have it reside as miniplayer mode on the taskbar.

Please see this wiki article on Thrashing becuase this is a very common problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrash_(computer_science)

I have an article here called "windows system resource manager".... Search for that and then you can find out how to keep the commit charge for programs trimmed to prevent thrashing!

Hope that helps!

Well all that really runs and not doing anything is the sidebar.

do you leave a web browser open all the time with more then 5 tabs. Belive it or not having those tabs open consumes a TON of commit charge!

The more commit charge is being used the more thrashing you get. A good thing is to get more ram or close some programs. Not much else to totally eliminate thrashing. You could perhaps get a HUGE amount of RAM and disable swap (paging) file all together but that is not recommended.

On my system I got WSRM kicking in to kill the ie process that goes above 500MB commit.

Here's a screenshot of my iexplore.exe usage to tell you how this is:

Firefox is especially bad with that because it is all in one process so it will crash all your tabs if you have to end its process because it froze. On this computer I have 256MB of RAM and Firefox can use 117MB+ sometimes

and the FF devs said it won't have multiprocess till at least Q4 2011 or somethin like that!

IE8 FTW!!!!

Yeah I see now. I have 4 gigs of Ram but I can see what you guys are talking about. My firefox uses 120MB at times. I just close it when I'm not using it. Thanks.

Google Chrome has individual processes, possibly Opera, but no one uses that I like IE7 because switching tabs is a lot smoother, but there is no IE7 in R2... I'm on Vista so I can use IE7, but IE7 is all one process, so that could be a problem. Ethier way, IE isn't as much as a memory hog as FF is. I currently have: Win2008workstation.com/forum [this page], another page from the r2 site (tables), Hotmail, Bing and YouTube and IE is using less than 50MB. Firefox would be using 120MB with these tabs.