Question HIGH RAM USAGE ON IDLE

[SCOP3Z]

Hey guys ive recently built my new pc, and for some reason i noticed that is it using 10gb of ram on idle. And some of the games im playing it gets around 27-29 gb using because it already is using 10gb when not playing. Never had this problem on my old set up with win10 but ive heard this was a common problem with windows 11. Heres my resouce monitor and i cant seem to find anything sucking up an insane amount of ram.

 

[USAFRet]

Thats not "idle".

Steam, Discord, Chrome, Battlenet, Spotify....

 

[SCOP3Z]

Thats not "idle".

Steam, Discord, Chrome, Battlenet, Spotify....

Okay closed all of those and got rid of majority of start up apps and now running 21% usage or 6gb, isnt that still a bit much?

 

[USAFRet]

Okay closed all of those and got rid of majority of start up apps and now running 21% usage or 6gb, isnt that still a bit much?

And a power off reboot in the middle of that?

 

[USAFRet]

But no, that isn't "a bit much".

Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Windows will adjust to whatever is available. And release when needed.

 

[SCOP3Z]

And a power off reboot in the middle of that?

yeah rebooted, but if you say thas fine then it must be okay. just not used to seeing that much being used