How to enable memory compression Windows 10
Recently I've been running programs that really like to soak up my system memory. So much that a lot of the time I don't even have a gigabyte left. This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often. I see in task manager there's a variable that tells me my compressed memory. I don't have it enabled, but from the sounds of it, it could solve my lack of memory issue until I buy more. How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Note: Yes, I've looked else where before posting, surprisingly I didn't find much, only things I found were to disable it for odd reasons.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
System Specifications:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X - 3.7GHz 8C/16T
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3466MHz
Mother board: MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1060 - 3GB DDR5
Power Supply: EVGA 650W - EQ (80+ Gold)
1st Hard drive: Western Digital Red - 2TB 7200RPM
2nd Hard drive: Western Digital Blue - 1TB 7200RPM
3rd Hard drive: Samsung Evo 970 - 1TB NVMe M.2 (OS Drive)
Internet Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 - 450Mbit/s transfer
windows-10 memory compression
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Recently I've been running programs that really like to soak up my system memory. So much that a lot of the time I don't even have a gigabyte left. This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often. I see in task manager there's a variable that tells me my compressed memory. I don't have it enabled, but from the sounds of it, it could solve my lack of memory issue until I buy more. How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Note: Yes, I've looked else where before posting, surprisingly I didn't find much, only things I found were to disable it for odd reasons.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
System Specifications:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X - 3.7GHz 8C/16T
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3466MHz
Mother board: MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1060 - 3GB DDR5
Power Supply: EVGA 650W - EQ (80+ Gold)
1st Hard drive: Western Digital Red - 2TB 7200RPM
2nd Hard drive: Western Digital Blue - 1TB 7200RPM
3rd Hard drive: Samsung Evo 970 - 1TB NVMe M.2 (OS Drive)
Internet Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 - 450Mbit/s transfer
windows-10 memory compression
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
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asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
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"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
1
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13
add a comment |
Recently I've been running programs that really like to soak up my system memory. So much that a lot of the time I don't even have a gigabyte left. This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often. I see in task manager there's a variable that tells me my compressed memory. I don't have it enabled, but from the sounds of it, it could solve my lack of memory issue until I buy more. How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Note: Yes, I've looked else where before posting, surprisingly I didn't find much, only things I found were to disable it for odd reasons.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
System Specifications:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X - 3.7GHz 8C/16T
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3466MHz
Mother board: MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1060 - 3GB DDR5
Power Supply: EVGA 650W - EQ (80+ Gold)
1st Hard drive: Western Digital Red - 2TB 7200RPM
2nd Hard drive: Western Digital Blue - 1TB 7200RPM
3rd Hard drive: Samsung Evo 970 - 1TB NVMe M.2 (OS Drive)
Internet Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 - 450Mbit/s transfer
windows-10 memory compression
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
116
Recently I've been running programs that really like to soak up my system memory. So much that a lot of the time I don't even have a gigabyte left. This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often. I see in task manager there's a variable that tells me my compressed memory. I don't have it enabled, but from the sounds of it, it could solve my lack of memory issue until I buy more. How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Note: Yes, I've looked else where before posting, surprisingly I didn't find much, only things I found were to disable it for odd reasons.
OS: Windows 10 Pro
System Specifications:
CPU: Ryzen 7 2700X - 3.7GHz 8C/16T
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3466MHz
Mother board: MSI X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
Video Card: EVGA GTX 1060 - 3GB DDR5
Power Supply: EVGA 650W - EQ (80+ Gold)
1st Hard drive: Western Digital Red - 2TB 7200RPM
2nd Hard drive: Western Digital Blue - 1TB 7200RPM
3rd Hard drive: Samsung Evo 970 - 1TB NVMe M.2 (OS Drive)
Internet Adapter: TP-Link TL-WDN4800 - 450Mbit/s transfer
windows-10 memory compression
windows-10 memory compression
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
116
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
116
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
edited Dec 14 '18 at 7:16
Ramhound
19.5k156085
19.5k156085
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
116
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
116
asked Dec 14 '18 at 6:25
diamondpumpkin
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116
"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
1
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13
add a comment |
"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
1
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13
"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
1
1
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13
add a comment |
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How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Memory compression is enabled by default. However, it appears for whatever reason, you currently have it disabled. Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to disable memory compression
Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to enable memory compression
Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Sources:
Enable-MMAgent
Disable-MMAgent
answered Dec 14 '18 at 6:58
Ramhound
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However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
add a comment |
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How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Memory compression is enabled by default. However, it appears for whatever reason, you currently have it disabled. Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to disable memory compression
Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to enable memory compression
Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Sources:
Enable-MMAgent
Disable-MMAgent
answered Dec 14 '18 at 6:58
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However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
add a comment |
How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Memory compression is enabled by default. However, it appears for whatever reason, you currently have it disabled. Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to disable memory compression
Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to enable memory compression
Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Sources:
Enable-MMAgent
Disable-MMAgent
answered Dec 14 '18 at 6:58
Ramhound
19.5k156085
1
However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
add a comment |
How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Memory compression is enabled by default. However, it appears for whatever reason, you currently have it disabled. Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to disable memory compression
Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to enable memory compression
Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Sources:
Enable-MMAgent
Disable-MMAgent
answered Dec 14 '18 at 6:58
Ramhound
19.5k156085
How would I go about enabling Windows 10 memory compression?
Memory compression is enabled by default. However, it appears for whatever reason, you currently have it disabled. Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to disable memory compression
Disable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Within a Administrator PowerShell command prompt type the following command to enable memory compression
Enable-MMAgent -MemoryCompression
Sources:
Enable-MMAgent
Disable-MMAgent
answered Dec 14 '18 at 6:58
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However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
add a comment |
1
However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
1
1
However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
However, I feel it is important to point out that enabling memory compresion, WILL NOT, resolve your memory leak. Even with memory compression enabled, whatever is causing your memory leak, will conitnue to cause your issue. It just might take longer for the end result.
– Ramhound
Dec 14 '18 at 7:18
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"This has led my system to hang and eventually crash quite often." It's very unlikely that your system hanging and crashing has anything to do with memory use and thus very unlikely that it would be affected by memory compression.
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:04
@DavidSchwartz Memory leaks are not fun, and they can cause the system to crash. Compressing the memory should either give the program enough memory to ran properly or allow me enough time to close the program before the system crashes.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:09
1
If you have a real memory leak, the problem is the memory leak. And unless it's a kernel leak (in which case there's nothing to close) it won't cause a system crash. You are likely barking up the wrong tree. Do you have any actual evidence of a memory leak? (Memory in use is not evidence of a leak.)
– David Schwartz
Dec 14 '18 at 7:10
@DavidSchwartz In any case this is my problem, not yours. I am just wondering how to enable memory compression. You do not need to know why I want to enable it.
– diamondpumpkin
Dec 14 '18 at 7:13