Question Task manager only shows about 8GB RAM out of 16GB?

[AverageLeo]

Hey,

I use a nice LG GRAM 16 laptop that supposed to be good for basic programming.
Lately I fell like my laptop isn't smooth enough, and I now saw this in the task manager:

This is the main preview - which shows 91% of memory occupied:

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This is the "Users" preview, I'm an only user:

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This is the Performance preview - shows I have 16GB:

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Where is all the memory and why is Clion (small project), 10 tabs on Firefox and a few small apps taking 15GB of memory?
Can I optimize this in some why?

Thanks to the kind helpers.

 

[rgd1101]

what the resource monitor said?

are you running a virtual machine? vmmemwsl

 

[SkyNetRising]

This is the Performance preview - shows I have 16GB:

Where is all the memory and why is Clion (small project), 10 tabs on Firefox and a few small apps taking 15GB of memory?

It says right there - you have 15.7GB of ram.
Remaining 256MB is probably hardware reserved by integrated graphics.

 

[AverageLeo]

what the resource monitor said?

are you running a virtual machine? vmmemwsl

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WSL is Linux for windows, I guess it's considered VM in some way

 

[AverageLeo]

It says right there - you have 15.7GB of ram.
Remaining 256MB is probably hardware reserved by integrated graphics.

Yeah but why is it full?
I'm doing almost nothing...

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yeah but why is it full? I'm doing almost nothing...

Close firefox and clion.
Check free ram then.

 

[rgd1101]

Advanced settings configuration in WSL

A guide to the wsl.conf and .wslconfig files used for configuring settings when running multiple Linux distributions on Windows Subsystem for Linux.

learn.microsoft.com

did you change settings? running wsl2?
memory size 50% of total memory on Windows or 8GB, whichever is less; on builds before 20175: 80% of your total memory on Windows