Extremely high physical memory usage (with 16gb of RAM)

[farstruck]

I had the same problem before when I was running with 8gb RAM, but I upgraded to 16gb but apparently the problem still hasn't been resolved. This memory usage always goes up, and I have to shut down/ restart my computer for it to go back down. The memory usage as of right now while being idle is 75%, and that's only with a couple of chrome tabs open. Any suggestions? I've heard that doing a fresh install of Windows 7 can help, but I'm not too sure about that one.
Here's a few pictures of what the resource monitor is showing:
http://imgur.com/i3D7qFV
http://imgur.com/qszUHxM
Thank you very much for your help!

 

[Mugglensu1984]

How much virtual memory (pagefile) do you have currently.

If you have 16GB RAM then your pagefile should be 32GB.

RAM : PageFile is usually in a 2:1 ratio.

 

[farstruck]

How much virtual memory (pagefile) do you have currently.

If you have 16GB RAM then your pagefile should be 32GB.

RAM : PageFile is usually in a 2:1 ratio.

How do I check that?

 

[Mugglensu1984]

Click Start >Right-Click Computer >Select Properties >Click Advanced System Settings > Click Settings (under Performance tab) >Click Advanced >Click Change (under Virtual Memory)

 

[farstruck]

Click Start >Right-Click Computer >Select Properties >Click Advanced System Settings > Click Settings (under Performance tab) >Click Advanced >Click Change (under Virtual Memory)

This is what came up on mine
http://imgur.com/bZtkKgA

 

[Vic 40]

Updated all drivers too? Motherboard as well as the gpu and what more you can think of.

What happens when not using chrome,but another search engine like Firefox or I.E.?

 

[farstruck]

Updated all drivers too? Motherboard as well as the gpu and what more you can think of.

What happens when not using chrome,but another search engine like Firefox or I.E.?

It's been happening for as long as I can remember (for the couple months I've had my computer), but I'll update everything and see if it fixes the problem. I haven't tried any other search engines, but the RAM usage stays over 80% even if I don't have any programs open

 

[Vic 40]

You could try safe mode and see if it gives the same ram usage.If so is it probably not a driver problem.

 

[nokturrduk84]

Try fresh install Windows. I have the same 16GB RAM & same amount of virtual memory, but mine doesn't go so high...

 

[freeskier93]

Can you also take screenshots that order by Working Set and not Commit? Also make the window bigger so we can see more processes.

 

[farstruck]

Try fresh install Windows. I have the same 16GB RAM & same amount of virtual memory, but mine doesn't go so high...

I'll probably do that as a last resort if nothing else works.

 

[farstruck]

Can you also take screenshots that order by Working Set and not Commit? Also make the window bigger so we can see more processes.

Commit- http://imgur.com/0r9tcHQ
Working set- http://imgur.com/T7yVcwi

 

[nokturrduk84]

Can you also take screenshots that order by Working Set and not Commit? Also make the window bigger so we can see more processes.

Commit- http://imgur.com/0r9tcHQ
Working set- http://imgur.com/T7yVcwi

That lolclient.exe is eating your RAM:
My advice is: go in start & type "msconfig", then go to startup tab & uncheck all unnecessary items. Then reboot & see how much RAM is taken at startup.

 

[farstruck]

Can you also take screenshots that order by Working Set and not Commit? Also make the window bigger so we can see more processes.

Commit- http://imgur.com/0r9tcHQ
Working set- http://imgur.com/T7yVcwi

That lolclient.exe is eating your RAM:
My advice is: go in start & type "msconfig", then go to startup tab & uncheck all unnecessary items. Then reboot & see how much RAM is taken at startup.

It uses a lot, but it's not eating up 13GB of RAM, and I've already disabled over half of the programs on startup.

Also, even with LoLClient closed my RAM usage is still above 80%

 

[freeskier93]

Yeah, still not seeing anything there that explains 13GB of RAM usage, LoLClient is only ~700 MB. I think you're going to have to look into 3rd party utilities to better map RAM usage and figure out what's eating the RAM. Try something like RaMMap.

 

[farstruck]

Yeah, still not seeing anything there that explains 13GB of RAM usage, LoLClient is only ~700 MB. I think you're going to have to look into 3rd party utilities to better map RAM usage and figure out what's eating the RAM. Try something like RaMMap.

I do actually have RamMap, but I really have no clue what I'm looking at. My computer was just crashing and I had to turn it off then back on, but before I did that I tried opening something and it said something like "not enough system memory"

 

[timbaz]

Anyone else see the Chrome process with PID 960,122 ??

If your PID value is that high, it probably means that you have a significant number of processes running (most likely hidden, since you'd probably notice if you had a million processes in task manager). Try downloading Malwarebytes' free version and running a scan.