Two Identical Comps, different Commit Charge?

[lost0822]

At my work we have two identical dells comps. 2.2, 512 Ram....for some reason looking in the windows task mangaer under the performance tab one of the comps. Limit Commit Charge number is almost twice the amount of the other comp....why would this be? We feel this might be leading to a performance issue with the one comp. saving files slow, opening files slow....any suggestions? :D

[Phoenix86]

Simple...

Your hardware is indentical, but I'd lay out a lot of money that says the software isn't. Because the are running different software, there are different memory useages.

What's different?

Beats the crap out of me, how long have these machines been in the hands of users? Spyware maybe? If it's legit software look through the add-remove program list. Otherwise run something like spy sweeper on the two boxes and see what you turn up.

[lost0822]

i've run adware/spybot on both, they are clean now....there might be more programs on one compared to the other, but probably not a big difference...i'll take a look at that.

[Phoenix86]

Doh, you said limit...

There are two things that affect limit.

Size of physical RAM in the machine, and size of the page file.

[lost0822]

Doh, you said limit...

There are two things that affect limit.

Size of physical RAM in the machine, and size of the page file.

I hear you. Here's another question then, we have the same RAM in both machines, like i said the hardware is the same in both machines. We do CAD work here, if i open up a drawing on the faster comp. my cpu usage goes up to about 50% no big deal right, well on the other comp. when we open the same drawing that comp. usage goes up to 100%, basically it maxes out. why would that be?

[Phoenix86]

Sounds like a bug in the CAD software, check the version between the two. If there is a patch, get it. If not, reload the CAD software.