Should my system be using 9.7 GB of memory while running 2 applications?
The two applications I'm running are Google Chrome (4 tabs open) and Task Manager. I'm running Windows 10 with Malwarebytes running in the background.
9.7 GB of my 16 available is like 61% of all my memory.. I just don't see how that can be right, my last rig running Windows 8.1 only had 8 GB...
Help please, someone.
Have a look in your processes and order them by memory usage...
Malwarebytes sucks
>>51940437
Oh yea, I looked at that but it doesn't add to nowhere near 9.7 GB..
>>51940469
Anyone have a clue?
>>51940795
This is just what I heard, but Windows takes some of the RAM for itself and uses it all the time. It's probably wrong though. Did you select 'Show processes for all users'? Usually that shows a bunch of more processes for me
>>51940414
What's with the huge non paged pool? Is that how iGPU reserved memory shows in Windows?
>>51940469
>google chrome
botnet
There is a known memory leak in the Killer network service and driver. It fucks the system bad. Don't use that shit.
>>51940806
>Windows takes some of the RAM for itself and uses it all the time.
That is true. Almost all RAM that is in use by an application is used as a very fast storage cache.
However, that won't show up as "in use." If it did, "in use" would always show close to 100%.
I'm doing great,
chrome,
teamspeak,
peerblock,
windows media player,
steam,
cpu watching crap,
gpu watching crap,
logitech and asus software.
>>51941227
I think I need that though as it's the driver for my Ethernet port.
>>51940414
>Windows 10
found your problem. I went back to 7 and my ram usage dropped by 2gb and my HDD is no longer spinning at 70-99% all the time due to superfetch.
Good luck senpai. Also don't be a retard and use Chrome, on Windows use IE11, always.
>>51941266
Windows 7 master race reporting in
>>51941266
you have 2 CPU's on the same mother board?
Everyone says 8gb is enough, but since I want to just use my pc normally and game with high end,gpu I got 16gb. Reading shit like OP posted seems pretty common.
>>51940469
Show root processes. Nothing on that list is using a large amount of memory
>>51941506
How do I do that?
Pretty positive its used as a cache by the system, unused ram is wasted ram.
>>51941472
no, its obviously a quad core AMD or a dual core intel.
>>51941553
Probably right click on the inner content and select something like "Show all processes or show processes for root user" I don't use windows so I'm guessing
>>51941576
The initialization cost of allocating ram is so small that this should not be needed. Especially not 8 GB like OP
>>51940414
>Non-paged pool
>7.1 GB
Win 10 drivers fucked again?
OP here, I did a Windows Memory Diagnostic that took like 5 minutes, it said no issues were found but after I rebooted Windows said updates were installed.
Checked task manager and now it says I'm only using 3.3 GB, so problem solved I guess?
>>51941679
3 GB for not having anything open is still a lot
>>51941472
its an i5 2500k, single cpu. taskman is showing kernal times in red
>>51941679
Use procmon to see what's happening, chances are it's just windows using what it can for cache.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645
>>51941705
Well I've got Chrome running with 3 tabs, Task Manager, and I did something with my SSD that uses a little memory to make it faster or some shit like that...
>>51941743
Ok, downloaded that program, what exactly am I looking for?
>>51941789
Oops, should have been process explorer not monitor.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processexplorer
What you're looking for is a process with high working bytes.
If you only see high private bytes that's just windows caching data and doesn't matter, the data will be pulled as programs need it.
>>51941749
Prefetch?
>>51941870
Not sure what it's called, all I know is that it was an option using the Samsung 850 EVO SSD.
>>51941865
Is this what I'm supposed to be looking at?
>>51941926
Yes, sort by working set and see what is the highest.
>>51941969
Looks about right, that MsMpEng is Microsoft's antivirus right?
>>51942022
not him but whats msmpeng
Windows is caching data. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. If a program ever needs a lot of memory, it will just take memory from the cache.
>>51942022
>>51942066
Yes it is the antivirus.
If Chrome is the highest than the excessive use task manager is reporting is indeed cache.
You can ignore it, it causes no issues.
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll just try and keep a closer eye on my memory usage, still not sure why my rig was using 10 GB on bootup earlier today but whatever..
>>51942087
>still not sure why my rig was using 10 GB on bootup earlier today but whatever.
It windows caching, you've been told this multiple times.
