Question Lots of RAM caching, without the use of applications

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Good afternoon, I noticed that for 2 hours of work in the cache 8 gb, although I did not use only the browser(Chrome) and Telegram, no other applications that could take up this space.
I learned about RamMap application in the discussion of another issue and decided to install it to see what is in the cache, I installed it from here ( https://learn.microsoft.com/ru-ru/sysinternals/downloads/rammap )
In the end it doesn't show what is in it, although on the main page in the item "Mapped File" it seems to show the real volume.
Can you somehow help me to see what is in the cache?
I will be very grateful for the answer
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Sorry, I don't really understand how this is supposed to help me in my situation.
What exactly is your perceived issue?
Could you please explain it in a simpler way? The whole problem is that I can't understand what is in the cached memory and why it is different every day, although the applications used are always the same.
Windows uses free ram for file system caching. This is normal operation.
If some process will require additional ram and there's no free ram available, then cached ram will be released for this process.

Unused ram = wasted ram. You want it all to be used.
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As near as I could understand there was 4 GB present and 1 GB was added somewhere (via file 1.dat ?) and he discovered that the cache or something increased to 5 GB.
Well, file 1.dat weighs 5gb and therefore 4gb was in the cache and after running this file in the cache became 9gb (well 5+4=9) for this reason and I thought that I could see through RamMap that ran on such a cache
 
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No you cannot see what is in the cache and cache changes are to be expected.

Time to drop the concerns and move on.
Thank you for your responses.
Turned the computer on twice today, now for 2 hours of cache 2gb cache total.
Looks like the cache numbers are really coming from some obscure place and the only way to make sure it's not a virus is to first try disabling SysMain and watch for a week, if the cache keeps bouncing around like this completely uninstall the system :chaudar:
 
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UPD: Strange, 4 days the cache hasn't gone up more than 3-4gb and I thought I'd be happy by now. But yesterday again for 2 hours of system work the cache amounted to 7gb, and today for 8 hours 3.6gb of cache
 
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