i7 6700k Ram usage

[Jan-Michael]

hello all ive put together another computer with i7 6700k with 8gb of ram with corsair
msi gaming 7 mobo corsair 850 watt psu and using a an gold asus gtx560 for some reason after awhile of use my ram usage would go up to 90% have no clue whats going on. im just browsing the web or playing music and come back to be all used up. its not all the time its doing it but at just random times i havent overclocked it yet. just wanna ask the community any info on the situation

 

[Supahos]

My computer recently did the same thing and it was Norton eating it all up I reinstalled Norton and fixed the issue. Can you look and see what is using the memory in resource manager?

 

[IInuyasha74]

You will need to look around your system to figure out what is causing it. RAM usage isn't necessarily going to increase or decrease from Haswell to Skylake, it all depends on the software.

 

[photonboy]

1) Look at memory usage in Task Manager (CTRL-ALT-DEL)-> Processes

(Google Chrome, Microsoft Search..)

2) if the memory usage by programs doesn't add up then it's a Windows process that's doing it which can be trickier to figure out.

 

[Jan-Michael]

so i checked the usage on task manager seems chrome, Msi Control Services, Services and Controller App and System takes the most
Leading is System and Msi Control Services taking about 150mb each.

 

[photonboy]

so i checked the usage on task manager seems chrome, Msi Control Services, Services and Controller App and System takes the most
Leading is System and Msi Control Services taking about 150mb each.

8GB is 8192MB so the amount you are mentioning above is not significant.

Thus, it looks like a HIDDEN Windows process.

Chrome runs multiple processes (to prevent a site crashing everything) so that has to be added up, however you should look at the memory usage on a COLD START (computer off first) with nothing else started except the Task Manager. Again, that should normally not use more than about 3GB of the 8GB available.

It sounds like that's okay, but the amount used just continues to rise?

*Shut down Google Chrome while looking at the Task Manager memory amount. You'll see immediately how much you reclaim. However, please note that even using up to 5GB of the 8GB may be "normal"...

It's difficult to say if it's a memory "leak" or if Windows is simply buffering stuff into memory.

*Without Google Chrome running, Windows should have a MAXIMUM (80%?) that it will use before taking stuff out of memory and putting that on the SSD or HDD (Windows Pagefile). With Chrome it doesn't seem to work that way as I've ran out of memory before with tonnes of tabs.

If you started a GAME for example and needed more system memory Windows should move stuff to the Pagefile before launching the game or even during the game.

(90% just seems too high and again for me that's only been with Google Chrome in the mix.. or before the Search/Index for Windows)

 

[Jan-Michael]

well as of right now. my memory usage is at 49-54% its mainly coming from System. Hitting 300. chrome is taking a good amount. i have about 4 tabs open.
but still my old computer that ran 2500k sandy with same 8gb of ram. didnt use this much. i would open 4-5tabs it would be using 30-40% usage ive never seen go near 80% in my old rig where in this new rig i built has gone that high. i barely have anything installed yet. just all the drivers and software that came with the MSI mobo.