Win10 high RAM Usage

MikeMecanic said:

Let's have a better idea of your problem Dooz, paste the following sequence so that we can see it:
Task Manager/Performance/Open Resource Monitor (bottom left)/Memory.

For radio streaming outside my country, I'm at 30-40% of total RAM available. Using Opera 30 browser.

Some Pictures about the problem:
http://gyazo.com/1f3bd5ad55b7530a6fbe821dd052b554
http://gyazo.com/0f1ce97e3f05acb9259b4bb8fc4ea08b

No idea what is going on. Gaming goes without problems and getting high fps reads w/o enything overheating or getting even close. The problem usually starts when I start downloading something(From chrome, steam etc). My motherboard uses the killer network LAN thingy and my network speed read 92~Mbs download and 10+Mbs upload. No process or action otherwise indicates what could cause the problem...

Post a screenshot of Task Manager - Performance tab showing memory information. This is the best place to start with suspected memory problems.

LMiller7 said:

Post a screenshot of Task Manager - Performance tab showing memory information. This is the best place to start with suspected memory problems.

There were two screenshots in my last post to this thread after posting them I had to restart my computer cause of the lag. Will provide more screenshots once it starts to bug out again.
Temendor

@leshoyadut

Welcome to the forum.

Please create your own thread for your problem. Trying to help multiple individuals in the same thread is confusing for everyone.

Edit: Your symptoms are similar but the cause may be entirely different.

LMiller7 said:

@leshoyadut

Welcome to the forum.

Please create your own thread for your problem. Trying to help multiple individuals in the same thread is confusing for everyone.

Edit: Your symptoms are similar but the cause may be entirely different.

Entirely fair. Sorry for clogging up the thread. :)

You can try this Windows 10 high memory usage (unknown reason) - Super User
Driver memory leak maybe the problem :)

altae said:

Sorry AndreyT but that is simply not true. I've not seen one desktop OS that uses 16 GB of Ram.

No, what I said above is 100% true. Absolutely any virtual-memory-based OS will easily and immediately fill 16GB of RAM (16GB? That's just laughable by modern standards). If it won't fill it with active application working sets, then it will fill it with cashed and/or prefetched data. If some OS does not do it, it is back to the drawing board for the designers/implementers of that OS.

The rest simply boils down to how each OS calculates the "working set" of a process and how aggressively the OS manages the RAM pages that belong to that working set. There's no standard for that and any changes will easily result in different values being reported. This is most likely what the OP observes.

Well, have it your way and just ignore the fact that everybody who has got a task manager, some other program that reads out current ram usage or knows the right commands can easily show you at any given moment that this is not the case.

altae said:

Well, have it your way and just ignore the fact that everybody who has got a task manager, some other program that reads out current ram usage or knows the right commands can easily show you at any given moment that this is not the case.

That sounds like "Just ignore the fact that everyone with a straightedge can easily prove that Earth is flat".

To those who actually understand the relationship between RAM and virtual memory in a modern OS, I'd like to point out that the OP was referring to Chrome's private working set size. Chrome is not a device driver, it is a user-level application, which has no access to direct RAM management. Chrome could not produce "RAM leak" even if it wanted to do so deliberately.