All My Ram getting cached

[AliAbbas_786]

Hi guys, hope ur all well, and i hope you can help me

All my 16gb ram is cached, I remeber wen I use to look at my free avaiable ram it use have a lot free and few gb cached but for some strange reason and after 3 clean windows 10 installs trying to fix the issue. Over 11gb is getting cached, I have no idea why this happening.

Any help would be greatful

 

[unksol]

Good. It would be a complete waste to have memory sitting there empty.

 

[AliAbbas_786]

Good. It would be a complete waste to have memory sitting there empty.

I understand that, but caching over 11gb and if i leave it will cache 15.5gb and leave 0.5gb as free memory, it never use to cache so much ram

 

[AliAbbas_786]

oh buy the way, all my ram is getting cached on idle, i can just watch the ram getting cached, without even doing anything, or running any application.

My specs:
i5 4690k
16gb hyper x fury 1333mhz ddr3 ram
120gb ssd
1TB and 3TB HDD
850wat evga supernova G2 PSU
GTX 980 gpu
msi gaming 5 mobo

 

[Pinhedd]

Good. It would be a complete waste to have memory sitting there empty.

I understand that, but caching over 11gb and if i leave it will cache 15.5gb and leave 0.5gb as free memory, it never use to cache so much ram

That is perfectly normal . See my tutorial for more detail

 

[AliAbbas_786]

Good. It would be a complete waste to have memory sitting there empty.

I understand that, but caching over 11gb and if i leave it will cache 15.5gb and leave 0.5gb as free memory, it never use to cache so much ram

That is perfectly normal . See my tutorial for more detail

My friend can you link me to ur tutorial? Thank you

 

[rujoesmith]

When you go to task manager and check memory usage, is it all in the non-paged pool?

 

[AliAbbas_786]

When you go to task manager and check memory usage, is it all in the non-paged pool?

No, the none pages pool is showing 206mb, is that a issue? when ram is cached is it ment to show in the non-paged pool. If isnt in the non-paged pool does that mean there is a problem?

Thank you for the reply. If you could explain what difference it would make if all the cached ram was in non-paged pool or if it wasnt I would be ever greatful.

 

[rujoesmith]

No not a problem, that sounds about right. If it was all in the non-paged pool, that is kernel reserved, and usually indicates a driver memory leak.

I misread the post and diddnt realize you said taskmanager indicated that it was cached memory. Having cached memory is actually a good thing, unused ram is wasted ram! Windows caches programs/files in memory so that they can be accessed quicker. The longer your computer is on the bigger the cache should get. If you open a program that needs more ram than you have free, it will simply re-allocate some from the cached pool, nothing to worry about.

 

[AliAbbas_786]

No not a problem, that sounds about right. If it was all in the non-paged pool, that is kernel reserved, and usually indicates a driver memory leak.

I misread the post and diddnt realize you said taskmanager indicated that it was cached memory. Having cached memory is actually a good thing, unused ram is wasted ram! Windows caches programs/files in memory so that they can be accessed quicker. The longer your computer is on the bigger the cache should get. If you open a program that needs more ram than you have free, it will simply re-allocate some from the cached pool, nothing to worry about.

Thank you friend, I have 3 pc's at home a gaming one, a mid range media pc and a genric pc for web browersing and youtube, and they all cache the ram, and buy ur replies it does seem normal, thank you.

Have a great 2016 guys

 

[Pinhedd]

Good. It would be a complete waste to have memory sitting there empty.

I understand that, but caching over 11gb and if i leave it will cache 15.5gb and leave 0.5gb as free memory, it never use to cache so much ram

That is perfectly normal . See my tutorial for more detail

My friend can you link me to ur tutorial? Thank you

Stickied at the top of this forum mate. It is quite long