I want to limit my Ram sharing with Graphics card

Dragonraihan

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I have 2x4GB Corsair Dominator its sharing 3gb with my Graphics card.

Here Is My System information

Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Gaming graphics 4095 MB Total available graphics memory
Windows 8 Pro

Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Total available graphics memory 4095 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 1024 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 3071 MB
Display adapter driver version 9.18.13.2049
Primary monitor resolution 1366x768
DirectX version DirectX 11 or better

 
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RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent (or, sometimes, 'Inexpensive') Disks. It is a family of storage configurations that use multiple physical disk or disk-like devices, (HDD, SSD, SSHD, ect.) in different arrangements to create some certain desired storage solution. The most common are RAID 0 and RAID 1, with the former splitting (striping) data between two disks and the later writing two disks with identical data (mirroring). There are other types of RAID, but they are less common in desktop machines. RAID 0 is the option that offers a performance benefit, sometimes offering nearly double the performance in read and write, at least in theory. RAID 0 also has zero fault tolerance. If one of the two disks fails, all data is lost...

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I am using Photoshop cc and in PS Performance tab i limited my ram to 3712 MB and when PS is working in full my PC became slow and in task manager shows PS is using 95~100 % Memory.
How does windows limits it ?
Can i manually limit Ram Share ?
 

gbryan101

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This is sort of one of those where you should just let Windows decide what to do. If you actually need the memory for, say a game, Windows will reallocate it. Also, the 4095MB of available graphics memory is just theoretical. It (most likely) isn't using that. For example, my nVidia Control Center tells me I have 20163MB of available graphics memory. If I ever used that, I would probably crap my pants.
 

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OK then tell me my PS can't use more than 3712 MB so why the task manager shows Memory is 95% when i work in PS where is my other RAM go
 

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I would start by looking at your other processes first. See what they are using and add that to what PS is using. You are still going to be short of the total RAM you are using. Most of what is still being used is going to prefetching and superfetching. Normally, Windows will manage these with respect to your system needs and they shouldn't be an issue. You can use Task Manager>Resource Monitor to explore what is going on. If you feel that pre- and superfetching are an issue, you can disable prefetching via regedit and superfetch from the Services panel, though I would recommend doing neither, as it is usually pretty detrimental to performance, at least to the user.

This is one of the things that Windows has in common with mobile OSs: it uses as much of what it has available as it can. Just like my phone desperately struggles to cram as much crap as it can into the 1GB of RAM it has, my machine is constantly looking for stuff to fill up the 32GB of RAM it has. It goes so far as to use 4GB for pointless crap and 4GB for 'standby,' just because it can.
 

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Yes i checked it other than PS no of any process is eating my memory all of them were normal but PS is eating approximately 3671 MB it turned yellow and task manager sowing 97%
 

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I would be surprised if fetching operations are literally using half your RAM. Like I said, Windows should reallocate memory as it's needed. Eight GB should be plenty, and by spec PS CC should use around 1GB. At idle, what is your RAM usage like?

Also, do you ever have any usual system problems like black screens or random crashes? If you do, I would run a few cycles of Memtest86+ or similar. A bad RAM module can cause all sorts of craziness, though Dominator is usually really good RAM, and I doubt that is the problem.

Disclaimer: While I know a bit about it from the tech support side, I don't use PS or any Adobe products myself.
 

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Thanks for hint i faced some crashes but not lately it was around 3 or 4 days ago then i totally reassembled my pc and reported to microsoft they give some auto diagnosis file "DeviceWin8.diagcab" after running it it fixes somethig and now its gone but today faced that RAM problem one more thing when my pc crashed before crashing it sounded like some device plug in and plug out
For the record i got those ram about a month ago those are totally new
 

gbryan101

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I would go ahead and test the RAM just to be safe. Test it one stick at a time if you want, though I usually only do that if I ran into a problem testing them all. You could also do a diagnostic on the HDD, though I don't see it as a likely problem. That said, I had someone bring me a Toshiba Satellite that wouldn't connect to a wireless network and was just acting up in general. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with after I used Parted Magic to check the wireless adapter and it worked fine, so I just started throwing diagnostics at it, hoping something would stick. After doing about everything, I finally checked the hard drive. All the problems were being caused by the rapidly failing hard drive and the Windows install that was falling apart on it.

You might also consider booting to Safe Mode and running your anti-malware tool of choice. I am not saying you have malware, but it's one of those things you have to cross off the list.

These are the sort of things that take forever, so I would start them before you head to bed or out for the night.
 

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Ill try it tonight Thanks
and help me to understand the Raid thing tell me about Raid i don't know what is it, i just know it speed up system
and i have one SSD 128GB, Samsung 1TB, Hitachi Sata 3.0 500GB can i do somthing with this to speed up or something else?
 

gbryan101

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RAID is a Redundant Array of Independent (or, sometimes, 'Inexpensive') Disks. It is a family of storage configurations that use multiple physical disk or disk-like devices, (HDD, SSD, SSHD, ect.) in different arrangements to create some certain desired storage solution. The most common are RAID 0 and RAID 1, with the former splitting (striping) data between two disks and the later writing two disks with identical data (mirroring). There are other types of RAID, but they are less common in desktop machines. RAID 0 is the option that offers a performance benefit, sometimes offering nearly double the performance in read and write, at least in theory. RAID 0 also has zero fault tolerance. If one of the two disks fails, all data is lost. RAID 1 has no performance benefit, but is redundant. With each of the two disks having a complete copy of your data, one can fail and you will be fine.

In theory, you can create RAID arrays from next to anything. More practically speaking, you are going to want same or similar disks/SSDs/whatever. An array is only as good as its weakest link, so pairing an 840 Pro with some SATA II OCZ SSD would be something of a waste, even if it did have a performance benefit from the pairing. I will say that it has been my experience that HDD are more forgiving to RAID than SSDs. Also, SSDs can't run TRIM commands in RAID so they pretty much go to crap if you let them go long enough, with write times becoming abysmal.

I assume your SSD is your boot drive, but are you also running PS from it? If you are running anything from the HDDs, you could create some type of RAID array there or by adding another disk and see some benefit. You could also create a RAID array by adding another SSD. I personally use 2 Samsung 840s in RAID 0 for my boot. It's incredibly fast, but stability is crap. I reinstall Windows about every two months.

If you are running an Intel chipset 68 or newer, you can also use Smart Response (often called Rapid Storage now) to 'accelerate' a traditional HDD or RAID array with a small SSD or SSD partition. All it is is a well done caching set up, and it is pretty useful at times.

My complete storage configuration is boot of 2x 120GB SSDs in RAID 0, mass storage of 2x 1TB HDD in RAID 0 with a 32GB SSD cache, and a SSHD used for an Ubuntu boot. I also have three external swap-bays, plus the optical drive, eSATA, ect, ect everyone has.

I would finish doing diagnostics before putting down cash on another drive or something.
 
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Thanks I understand some of it but thanks anyway
 

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Maybe you should try using some ramdisk software and move swap into ramdisk. When the available memory is full, Windows will try to use pagefile, and it would be... yes, in remaining memory:) Many are overestimating the cleverness of Windows, but sometimes it makes really stupid decisions. For example I've seen notebook with 32-bit Win7, which could use only about half of 4 GB system memory. There was no way to make Windows see at least 3.25 GB, usually available to 32 bit systems - maybe because over 1 GB which should be shared with integrated graphics was somehow locked in BIOS.