my computer using 86% of my 16gb of ram with not many programs up

[Liam230]

hello im getting really frustrated with this ram usage when i don't have any programs up my ram is at 86% and i have 16gb heres pics of task manager

http://gyazo.com/44074a06237b0781723831cd39cd6926

http://prntscr.com/670ckg

 

[SBMfromLA]

According to your photo... Chrome is using up a lot of your RAM. Can you post another photo of your Task Manager but sort it so that the programs using the most programs are listed first at the top? It would give a better idea of what's going on.

 

[Wing0]

Well you have allot of things running. And see if you have any extensions you don't want with chrome. I bet you downloaded lots of things and got programs that run in the background with it. Just uninstall everything you see on there that you don't need. Like platinum host service. Do you know what that is? If not, look into it. It doesn't sound like a background program that came with your mac. (i don't have a mac, but I'd look up allot of the programs in there if I were you.)

 

[Pinhedd]

hello im getting really frustrated with this ram usage when i don't have any programs up my ram is at 86% and i have 16gb heres pics of task manager

http://gyazo.com/44074a06237b0781723831cd39cd6926

http://prntscr.com/670ckg

Look at the size of the non-paged pool, that should be a few hundred megabytes at most. You have a memory leak in a driver somewhere. The most common one (EDIT: right now anyway) is the Killer E2200 network card, but I can't tell you what it is for sure without knowing more about your computer. Please post system specs.

 

[cst1992]

According to your photo... Chrome is using up a lot of your RAM. Can you post another photo of your Task Manager but sort it so that the programs using the most programs are listed first at the top?

Nope. The programs using the most memory are already listed at the top, and the listed programs are only using around a gigabyte and a half.
The problem is something else.

 

[SBMfromLA]

OK... I took a second look.. it looks like you have a lot of stuff starting up on boot. Why not install a good Startup Manager to give you a clearer picture of everything that starts up on boot and stop some of the programs you don't need running every time you turn on your computer. How often do you restart? Some people keep their computers running for days/weeks.

 

[Pinhedd]

OK... I took a second look.. it looks like you have a lot of stuff starting up on boot. Why not install a good Startup Manager to give you a clearer picture of everything that starts up on boot and stop some of the programs you don't need running every time you turn on your computer. How often do you restart? Some people keep their computers running for days/weeks.

OP's problem has nothing to do with running programs or startup processes. A 10.8GiB non-paged pool is not at all normal and points to a memory leak in a device driver.

 

[cst1992]

So it's some kind of non-approved/open-source/generic driver?

BTW I"d also like to know how long this computer's been up. If it's a memory leak, it'll build up the longer the computer stays up.

 

[Pinhedd]

So it's some kind of non-approved/open-source/generic driver?

BTW I"d also like to know how long this computer's been up. If it's a memory leak, it'll build up the longer the computer stays up.

Generally speaking, WHQL drivers are stress tested to detect memory leaks, so they should be clean. However, there's a known bug in the Killer E2200 network card's driver when it interacts with the Windows network data usage (NDU) driver that results in a memory leak. I'm not sure if a new driver has been released that addresses it.