High memory usage on idle

[Cookiesith]

Hi everyone

As you can guess from the title i'm having a memory problem on my 2 year old laptop. It started just today, 40 mins before posting this to be exact. Never had any ram problems until now.

On idle, my laptop is using %50+ memory for some reason i checked resource monitor and i can't find any reasons as to why this is happening. I'm not tech savvy so i only checked numbers. Right now only chrome is open and my laptop is using 4.7gbs out of 7.9.

I game a lot on it so i understand if one of the rams is damaged or something.
I tried a few fixes i found on google but they didn't help even a little. (Paging settings, closing every program not necessary for windows etc.)

specs:
GPU Geforce GTX 660m
CPU i7-3630QM 2.40GHz
RAM 8gb
Windows 8.1

If you need any other info please let me know.

 

[Rit_86]

Your RAM is probably not damaged. Try using firefox or even internet explorer instead of chrome to see if it helps. Also, try to run the Chrome with the discrete graphics card (enable it from Nvidia control panel) and see if it helps. The chrome seems to have a memory leak issue.

 

[Cookiesith]

Thank you for the quick reply.

I ran a malware scan, changed start value of ndu from regedit to 4, updated my network driver and laptop's memory usage is down to 25% with chrome open. So i don't really know what fixed it, but looks like problem solved. I will update this thread if problems occurs again.

 

[Solandri]

You've definitely got a program/service leaking memory. Your committed memory says 5.4/39.8 GB. So at some point in the past, whatever program/service was leaking memory leaked so much of it that your computer had expanded the pagefile up to 40GB of real+virtual memory.

Try closing Chrome and killing any of its processes in task manager. If that frees up your memory, then it's either a webpage or extension in Chrome which is leaking memory.

If it doesn't, then the next step is to run msconfig and look through the Startup tab. Uncheck any programs not related to hardware drivers which you don't need running every time the computer starts up. Usually what happens is that you install some poorly-written program, it sets itself to start when the computer boots, and it leaks memory.

 

[Cookiesith]

You've definitely got a program/service leaking memory. Your committed memory says 5.4/39.8 GB. So at some point in the past, whatever program/service was leaking memory leaked so much of it that your computer had expanded the pagefile up to 40GB of real+virtual memory.

Try closing Chrome and killing any of its processes in task manager. If that frees up your memory, then it's either a webpage or extension in Chrome which is leaking memory.

If it doesn't, then the next step is to run msconfig and look through the Startup tab. Uncheck any programs not related to hardware drivers which you don't need running every time the computer starts up. Usually what happens is that you install some poorly-written program, it sets itself to start when the computer boots, and it leaks memory.

Thanks for the suggestion but when i had the problem, killing any chrome processes didn't actually drop the memory usage more than 1%. I disabled programs that i don't even remember allowing anyway. Now i don't have high usage of it but committed memory is still at 40GB.
Any way i can decrease that number to what it needs to be?