6.5gb of ram used on idle

[Billy_Mays]

I'm just idling in my laptop and I have over 6gb of ram being used I only have realtemp, steam, chrome and, task manager and I do have one slot open on my laptop but the problem is trying to get into it and the most of the tasks in task manager that's eating up all of my ram I can't close due to me having restrictions on my laptop but I never go onto stupid websites 

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

so you say the laptop is idle, but you have lots of stuff open... start by closing all of your stuff, and then see what the usage is like. 

 

also, make sure Windows isn't updating, it consumes a bit of ram when it does that.

[ProjectBox153]

Close everything - that's idle. What you are describing is nowhere near idle.

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

so you say the laptop is idle, but you have lots of stuff open... start by closing all of your stuff, and then see what the usage is like. 

 

also, make sure Windows isn't updating, it consumes a bit of ram when it does that.

Closed everything except task manager it went down to 5.9 but I did close some stuff that isn't needed that wasn't open that I could see

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

Close everything - that's idle. What you are describing is nowhere near idle.

It's gone down to 6gb that's it

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

can you see what processes are consuming memory?

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

It's gone down to 6gb that's it

The something is open in the background. I've seen Windows 10 use as little as 400+ MB of RAM at idle, not 6GB+.

[YedZed]

Virus scan?

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The something is open in the background. I've seen Windows 10 use as little as 400+ MB of RAM at idle, not 6GB+.

Accidentally closed file explorer it just green screens nice

 

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

Virus scan?

I'll try that

[WkdPaul]

complete specs?

 

Did you try to restart it to see if it goes away?

[YedZed]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Accidentally closed file explorer it just green screens nice

 

I'll try that

Probably viruses if you haven't tried that. What scanner will you use?

[pipnina]

3 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

The something is open in the background. I've seen Windows 10 use as little as 400+ MB of RAM at idle, not 6GB+.

How can Win10 use that little. My laptop in a fresh install used 2.5GB without opening anything except task manager...

[Majestic]

could be another Realtek Network drivers memory leak.

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

complete specs?

 

Did you try to restart it to see if it goes away?

There was an update it sorta serves me for not shutting it down for almost a week

My specs are i3-5020u, 8gb of ddr3 1600mhz SODIMM, Intel HD 5500 (bottleneck for most games) 

2 minutes ago, YedZed said:

Probably viruses if you haven't tried that. What scanner will you use?

Laptop still has norton but it's gone really wonky lately I couldn't do a backup even though my drive was connected, won't let me do a bunch of stuff, might use Windows Decrapifer and remove all bloat ware and remove norton and use Windows Defender

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

3 minutes ago, pipnina said:

How can Win10 use that little. My laptop in a fresh install used 2.5GB without opening anything except task manager...

maybe on machines that have very little ram. if you have more, windows will load more stuff into memory. 

 

on a machine with 1gb of ram, it will use that little. on my machine with 6gb, it will use more. 

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Majestic said:

could be another Realtek Network drivers memory leak.

That's the WLAN card in my laptop

[WkdPaul]

1 minute ago, Billy_Mays said:

There was an update it sorta serves me for not shutting it down for almost a week

So you didn't do a restart yet?

 

Try that first.

 

1 minute ago, Billy_Mays said:

My specs are i3-5020u, 8gb of ddr3 1600mhz SODIMM, Intel HD 5500 (bottleneck for most games) 

I'm assume Windows 10?

 

[pipnina]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

maybe on machines that have very little ram. if you have more, windows will load more stuff into memory. 

 

on a machine with 1gb of ram, it will use that little. on my machine with 6gb, it will use more. 

My laptop has 16GB... so maybe that's the case,

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, pipnina said:

My laptop has 16GB... so maybe that's the case,

yep. on my machine, with 6gb, it loads about 1-1.5 gigs. with nothing set to startup. 

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

So you didn't do a restart yet?

 

Try that first.

 

I'm assume Windows 10?

 

It's updating right now and it's Windows 10

[Majestic]

12 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

That's the WLAN card in my laptop

Get the latest drivers for it from the realtek website. Reboot PC.

Stock windows drivers always cause memoryleaks.

[Billy_Mays]

5 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Get the latest drivers for it from the realtek website. Reboot PC.

Stock windows drivers always cause memoryleaks.

I've updated them already but and after restart 3.3gb used 

[Icwhy]

This is normal windows uses a set amount of ram to keep the system usage at max speed it depends on your installed ram size for example I have 24 gig ram and a usage of around 4-6 gig ram on a clean install. If it bothers you there is a setting to lower this but I cant remember where it is located do mind that this is reserved ram and is used if needed by an application. 

[Majestic]

Just now, Icwhy said:

This is normal windows uses a set amount of ram to keep the system usage at max speed it depends on your installed ram size for example I have 24 gig ram. If it bothers you there is a setting to lower this but I cant remember where it is located do mind that this is reserved ram and is used if needed by an application. 

no its not

[ProjectBox153]

27 minutes ago, pipnina said:

How can Win10 use that little. My laptop in a fresh install used 2.5GB without opening anything except task manager...

I don't know really. It shot up to more when anything was open, but it did it.