[SOLVED] For years my Windows has been stealin almost double the ram in secret (RamMap-Empty Working Sets)

[Sithlord1138]

I have 16 gigs of ram, which should be more than enough since all the actual applications combined usually take about 4~5 gigs, but Task Manager tells a different story: my memory usage is constantly at 60% just after a few tabs in Chrome, even after I closed everything extra it's still 40% in use. My fps during gaming is actually impacted by the low availability of ram so it's not like Windows is managing it in a smart way.

I dug around and found the little tool called RamMap and with a click of "Empty Working Sets", which I have no idea what that even means, I can lower the memory usage all the way to 25% even with 2 separate Chromium browsers and over 20 tabs opened. But it doesn't stay there, the lowered usage slowly crawls back up again and within an hour or two it's back to the top. I have no idea what is causing this problem. Other PCs I have are all much less powerful but they can all keep the memory usage low without my interference.

I would really appreciate your help and advice.

 

[Sithlord1138]

I have 16 gigs of ram, which should be more than enough since all the actual applications combined usually take about 4~5 gigs, but Task Manager tells a different story: my memory usage is constantly at 60% just after a few tabs in Chrome, even after I closed everything extra it's still 40% in use. My fps during gaming is actually impacted by the low availability of ram so it's not like Windows is managing it in a smart way.

I dug around and found the little tool called RamMap and with a click of "Empty Working Sets", which I have no idea what that even means, I can lower the memory usage all the way to 25% even with 2 separate Chromium browsers and over 20 tabs opened. But it doesn't stay there, the lowered usage slowly crawls back up again and within an hour or two it's back to the top. I have no idea what is causing this problem. Other PCs I have are all much less powerful but they can all keep the memory usage low without my interference.

I would really appreciate your help and advice.
Thx

 

[Ralston18]

Open Resource Monitor after the system boots and Windows is opened.

Select the Memory tab and then click the small downward pointing arrow in the Working set column.

You should see the Processes using memory shown at the left and they should be sorted in descending order.

Leave the Resource Monitor window open and slide to one side.

Watch what changes while working as normal. Determine what is using memory and how much memory is being used.

Could be apps, updates, backups being launched in the background. Or it could be some buggy code that does not release memory when that memory is no longer needed.

Remember just watch, make a few notes. Do that over the next few boots.

You may spot some particular process being involved or some pattern that occurs when memory usage starts climbing.

 

[SamirD]

Windows has always badly managed memory and has generally always been a hog--this is actually pretty normal.