Posted by Kromey at 7:43pm Jan 25 '13Windows likes to swap applications it thinks you're not using out to disk even when you've still got plenty of RAM -- especially if you're running in any power profile other that "maximum performance", as it takes power to maintain stuff in RAM (but not on disk).
Check your laptop's power profile and try putting it into "maximum performance" if it isn't already.
However, running at anything over ~50-60% RAM usage will put Windows into "greedy swap mode", where it tries to swap to disk more aggressively so that it keeps more RAM available to more quickly load up a new program or for a running application to "burst" into using a lot more RAM -- so more RAM probably will help, honestly.
Check your laptop's power profile and try putting it into "maximum performance" if it isn't already.
However, running at anything over ~50-60% RAM usage will put Windows into "greedy swap mode", where it tries to swap to disk more aggressively so that it keeps more RAM available to more quickly load up a new program or for a running application to "burst" into using a lot more RAM -- so more RAM probably will help, honestly.
It probably is swapping - Kromey