8GB of RAM used doing basically nothing.

[TurnerR0und]

Hey, so I've noticed recently that my computer is using almost all of it's RAM all the time. Honestly, I haven't noticed much of an issue - for example it stays at 95/96% if I run a game or if I have 1 chrome tab open - but I'm starting to worry and wonder what is causing it. I'll almost never see my Physical Memory fall below 93% and with 8GB of RAM available that seems a bit much. Furthermore the processes - even with ALL USERS selected - really don't seem to add up to 8GB.

Included some relevant pictures of my task manager process and performance page and resource monitor.

 

[scout_03]

first stop all those tune up utility off then spotify ,google drive and steam the 3 last one could be activate on demand also you have to many chrome process running .

 

[why_wolf]

well for one get rid of tuneup. Restart your computer and go back to the task manager before you click on anything else and tell us what your RAM usage is then.

 

[TurnerR0und]

first stop all those tune up utility off then spotify ,google drive and steam the 3 last one could be activate on demand also you have to many chrome process running .

I thought I made this clear in the original post but I guess not, the ridiculous usage of RAM happens seemingly no matter what I have running. Also, Google Chrome sets it's processes up so a crash of an extension or tab doesn't crash the whole browser. I had a few browser tabs open. But in the past having steam, spotify and a few browsers up hasn't reached anywhere near 90% RAM usage (not just standby, IN USE).

Anyway I went and closed almost everything.

79% RAM usage doing literally nothing. This is different from when I first built this machine.

 

[scout_03]

check if you dont have any back up software runing in background also i would do a malwarebytes scan and use ccleaner then glary utility to do some files clean up you will also be able in glary to see what process come up at start up and what is running .

 

[Chrisg34]

If you are use heavy software in your computer. SO that's not enough memory.

 

[sunder25]

Seems like you have a really low limit on your virtual memory. Right click computer>properties>advanced system settings>advanced -->performance > settings >advanced >virtual memory > change
Make sure you have at least 8GB of virtual memory set.

Also, go type services.msc in start, then go to "superfetch" and disable it.

See what that does for you, after a restart.

 

[jsmithepa]

Some apps are very selfish and immediately grabs all the ram it can, BUT they will give it up if another process ask for it. Ram used is not as important as PAGE OUT, the amount of swapping occurring, this is when the ram has actually filled up with non-discardable requests and it's now writing to the HD.