Running out of RAM? (Is this normal?)

[heronymousrex]

-Windows 10, 8Gb, 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
-1/3 of my top processes below
-I basically have 2 chrome tabs open, malwarebytes on, onenote 2016, pushbullet, and 70% ram usage.

 

[the_crippler]

I can't really tell from the pic, but are you sure you have the full 8GB? I had a similar issue recently, and just could not figure out why I was maxing my RAM. After a bunch of troubleshooting, I happened to look at the total installed RAM and, yup, one stick had gone bad. System only had 4GB.

 

[basroil]

Chrome is a resource hog, but usually what you describe takes only ~3GB at most. Some program of yours has a memory leak, open the task manager and find out where that leak is!

 

[heronymousrex]

I can't really tell from the pic, but are you sure you have the full 8GB? I had a similar issue recently, and just could not figure out why I was maxing my RAM. After a bunch of troubleshooting, I happened to look at the total installed RAM and, yup, one stick had gone bad. System only had 4GB.

Is there a way to tell for sure? Dxdiag says Memory: 8192 MB RAM

 

[heronymousrex]

Chrome is a resource hog, but usually what you describe takes only ~3GB at most. Some program of yours has a memory leak, open the task manager and find out where that leak is!

How would I go about this? It says the top 2 programs are Chrome and Malwarebytes

 

[the_crippler]

You're probably fine in that department, then. If your system says that there's 8GB, then there's 8GB. Like I said - in my case, it just said 4GB. I mean, if you're still in doubt, just go to the normal system tab of the control panel.

 

[cherry blossoms]

Find the Killer Network Driver appropriate to your system, NOT the full suite, JUST the driver.

Uninstall the Killer Network Suite

Use device manager to install JUST the driver for your NIC.

 

[heronymousrex]

I discovered the solution. It's still kinda high for me but a full 10% lower at 39-43%. Turns out I had "Rapid Mode" enabled on my Samsung EVO SSD which adds a full 10% of RAM usage.

 

[basroil]

I discovered the solution. It's still kinda high for me but a full 10% lower at 39-43%. Turns out I had "Rapid Mode" enabled on my Samsung EVO SSD which adds a full 10% of RAM usage.

1) You should have stated you had that on. That's a RAM drive, which should never really be used unless you have 32gb or more.
2) You have a hell of a lot of garbage there. Start uninstalling things, especially apple junk and epson printer "tools"
3) Show the startup and details tabs, not processes.