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  • VePro and RAM usage

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    Hello,

    I've gota Windows 7 box that I'm using as a VePro 64bit Server and I've used it off and on over the last couple years and its been fine...I've never really pushed it too hard. I've been reworking my setup and I'm afraid I've got something seriously wrong with my windows machine. I should say up front that I'm more a Mac guy, I know my way around a PC but don't "mess" with it too much. Anyways...I've got 24GB of RAM but I noticed that the last couple days it doesn't show all that RAM as avilable. For example, I boot up and it shows 24GB, and after intial restart is says 24GB but after a while, it's now down to 20GB of RAM. The other day it showed only 16GB of RAM. I'm not talking about available or anything like that. I'm saying that Windows seems to think some of the RAM isn't even there to be used. I've run windows memory tests and they come back as fine. 

    Also, a probably related problem is resource monitor shows between 77mb and 0mb as free and say 17GB in standby. Is this normal? This is with one instance of Ve Pro running and one patch loaded (output sounds Signal). Its a beefy patch (Kontakt shows around 2.5Gb) but it shouldn't be causing problems right? Digital performer running on my Master machine (Mac Pro 8core 32GB RAM) is throwing erros trying to play a single track. CPU is spiking when I try to play that single patch on the Windows box. Nothing else is loaded in DP and nothing else is running on Windows. Suggestions? 
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    Your first problem could be a heat-related RAM issue. You could use a utility to see (when it's reporting less RAM than you have) how big it thinks the RAM sticks are in each slot. Failing that you could pull all but one chip and wait to see if it fails, and go through this process with each chip. You didn't say the size of your chips - is it three 8's or 6 4's?
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    Also sounds like it could be a memory leak somewhere. Maybe some software you got running in the background isn't garbage collecting properly.