Barely any apps running. 87% ram used, 87% committed.

8gb ram. 6gb pagefile.

Barely have anything running. Committed and physical ram are at 87% and won't release.

I close all programs, and memory use is still high.
And then it gives me low memory warning and asks me to close firefox.

This never happened in Windows 7 on my old computer.

This win10 came with the computer.

What's happening?
I wouldn't mind high memory usage if it didn't throw low memory warnings. But it does, and I surely don't have anything open that would altogether take up 7GB of ram.

I am wondering why you have such a large pagefile? Did you set this? It is best to allow Windows to manage the pagefile size. See my settings below:

philc43 said:

I am wondering why you have such a large pagefile? Did you set this? It is best to allow Windows to manage the pagefile size. See my settings below:

because GTA V needs it. otherwise I keep getting low memory warnings from Windows.

Also I'd rather not have my pagefile fragmented, so I just give it a large chunk of space. I have plenty of hard drive space, so it doesn't really matter.

axe0 said:

What plugins / extensions are installed in Firefox?

it's not firefox. I can close firefox and there's still a lot of ram usage.

my firefox addons are
downthemall
youtube video downloader express
epubreader
foxyproxy
greasemonkey
imagezoom
noscript
textlink

plugins:
acrobat
google talk
flash
intel identity protection

recent nVidia drivers can be problematic ...

D.

I would start to look into a clean boot troubleshooting process to try and find which drivers or processes are causing a memory leak.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4...conflicts.html

I think that's common for Chrome, if I am not mistaken.

With Chrome the general rule is one process for each open tab except that multiple tabs on a single website will share a process. In some cases there will be more processes. 6 Chrome processes is not at all unusual. I have seen many more with no issues.

Even a huge pagefile, which is not the case here, will have no significant downside except wasting disk space.