70% Memory usage and spiking disk usage Windows 10

[The Cuban]

I have 16 GB of ddr4 ram in a computer not a year old with pretty good parts. I noticed that there was an issue with my computer whenever shortly after starting up my computer, if i would try to load something up it would be slow. Then i started having some issues while playing games with my computer lagging extremely bad for no real good reason. Then i looked into task manager and saw disk usage at 100 but the memory was ok. I tried doing a bunch of things for the disk and it kinda worked and my disk doesnt spike and stay at a 100 like it used to, but it still goes to a 100 more times than i like for it , and my memory is sitting at 70 percent usage and i dont have anything but chrome open. I have windows 10 that i bought using kinguin, so not sure if i got a bad version of windows 10, if thats even a thing, but I doubt that that would be the issue, even though windows 10 itself might be the issue. Im really not sure and i just want my computer to function normally even though this issue doesnt destroy my gaming experience, I can still see the effect it has on my computer and i just hope someone might point me in the right direction.

 

[Colif]

Run an anti virus and malware scan

in task manager, in the performance tab, click on Open Resource monitor at the bottom of page
open the disk tab
you can sort the Disk activity columns by clicking the headers, and expand file name so it shows the full path. Try sorting by reads and writes and see which file name is using most hdd

The memory tab works the same but you can't see full file path in memory

what are the parts in your PC? Its possibly a driver leak caused by an old driver.

 

[The Paladin]

Windows 10 can at time be a pain , look at the size of your pagefile, I had a 8GB system that was always slowing down high mem usage and 100% hdd usage. the pagefile was set for 32GB for some obscure reason. try changing it to MIN to 16777 and MAX to 33554. give it a couple of minutes to sort that pagefile out. and it should slow down and ask to reboot, then reboot and see where your processes look

 

[Colif]

I have 16gb of ram, Page file is system managed. It only has 1gb currently allocated, its recommended is only 2.5gb. Win 10 only uses page file if you running out of ram, that has never happened on my PC so far.

Unlike previous versions, when you close a program win 10 doesn't dump it onto the hdd right away, it compresses it into ram so if you want to use it again later it loads much faster. If however you need that ram for something else it will then dump it onto page file.

Best solution to ram shortages is buy more, other thing that might help is get an ssd if you have a hdd, as that could reduce time spent at 100%

 

[The Paladin]

Well since Colif has the answers, I will bow out and let him save you

 

[Colif]

Well since Colif has the answers, I will bow out and let him save you

I don't know everything - old enough to know I never will. Stick around and help if you want

 

[The Paladin]

nah you got it in hand, Ill let your expert hands handle it and watch.

 

[The Cuban]

Im sure i dont have anything infecting my computer because i have norton. And the only thing i see taking up a lot of space is svhost sometimes. I have an i7-6700k, geforce 980, 1 tb hdd drive, an asus motherboard not too sure which kind it is. What is the page file that you are talking about. I havent tried anything with that

 

[Colif]

page file is an area of the hdd the PC will use if it runs out of ram. Its the last resort and if you don't know what it is, means its running on auto settings and should be fine.

You can click on the little arrow next to the svc host in task manager but it won't tell you which of the names is actually using the ram. Instead, Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe). ITs on over powered version of task manager and shows so much more detail.

The default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are running under service host, but unlike the other one, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = actual ram usage
Working set = Ram + page file usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click headers and run an av scan from within the program.

Sort the view by either private bytes or working set and see what program is eating your memory.