78% RAM usage just with Chrome open?

[Crypticshadow]

This keeps happening and I'm so fed up with it. I keep having to restart my computer because my RAM usage gets so high for seemingly no reason, as of now my RAM usage is sitting at 78%.

 

[Mark RM]

How much system RAM do you have? You seem to have many programs launched there, I'm not sure what results you expect.

 

[Crypticshadow]

I have 16gb, I'm not sure how a couple of mb can add up to 16 gbs

 

[Crypticshadow]

my memory now has climbed up to 93%

 

[Crypticshadow]

How much system RAM do you have? You seem to have many programs launched there, I'm not sure what results you expect.

I have 16gb, I'm not sure how a couple of mb can add up to 16 gbs


my memory now has climbed up to 93%

 

[Mark RM]

Have you scanned for malware with malwarebytes? Obviously something is using your system RAM and if you cannot see it, then we need to look around deeper.

 

[Crypticshadow]

Your answer implies that a typical computer doesn't have as much programs opened up as I do, but I haven't opened anything up.... I thought i just had necessary background applications open

 

[Mark RM]

well you have a fair amount of things lauched at startup, discord , steam, etc... If it was a 4 gig system, that would be pretty normal useage. I asked what you expected because you didn't report how much RAM you had.

 

[Crypticshadow]

well you have a fair amount of things lauched at startup, discord , steam, etc... If it was a 4 gig system, that would be pretty normal useage. I asked what you expected because you didn't report how much RAM you had.

Yeah i understand, but whats curious about this is that it accumulates more memory overtime, and only resets when i restart the computer.

 

[Mark RM]

Can you click on the performance tab and then the memory subsection and screenshot that please?

 

[Crypticshadow]

Can you click on the performance tab and then the memory subsection and screenshot that please?

 

[Mark RM]

Well something is committing writes... you are sure you have no trojans or malware?

Time to open the resource monitor and get a more in depth view of what the hell is going on.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/use-resource-monitor-windows-10

go to the memory tab and sort by commit, let's see what process could possibly be doing this.

 

[Crypticshadow]

Well something is committing writes... you are sure you have no trojans or malware?

Time to open the resource monitor and get a more in depth view of what the hell is going on.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/use-resource-monitor-windows-10

go to the memory tab and sort by commit, let's see what process could possibly be doing this.

 

[Crypticshadow]

Just a heads up Malwarbytes scanned 347,368 items and found 0 threats

 

[Colif]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Crypticshadow : "Something is wrong with my ram usage"

Ram usage is at 76% when i only used up about 700mb/16gb

 

[Crypticshadow]

Does Chrome and Discord usually run with >1gb of ram?

 

[Mark RM]

Chrome and Discord? yeah they can easily eat that much. Whatever is using your RAM isn't showing up. I'd expect it to look more like this
http://i66.tinypic.com/118qbew.jpg

Go back to task manage and click the users tab, maybe another user on your PC? do you have any virtual machines running?

 

[Crypticshadow]

no, there is only one user in the users tab

 

[Crypticshadow]

Try and use a little program called Memory Cleaner by Koshy John at www.koshyjohn.com

After install, don't forget to check every box under options tab except for the last one.

What am I losing if I do this?
I don't think my problem is normal anyway, so shouldn't there be a way to solve this without bringing in a software?

 

[Mark RM]

No malware, the programs don't add up to the memory in use, there are no other users or sessions running, resource meter shows nothing using that much RAM either and you have no Virtual machines.

Given the above, I am out of things to look for.

 

[Crypticshadow]

Ok thank you for your help Mark