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TheRiskk
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Hello I am using a ryzen 1600x , 8gb ram of corsair dominator 3200mhz , alongside a gtx 1060 3gb and and have suddenly realized that my ram usage is suddenly higher and less is available as shown by picture.

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34% and showing 8GB is high/wrong?

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look at amount available and also the only thing running is google chrome

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?! Looks fine to me.

If it was less, then you just have more programs running. I see Chrome, and a bunch of startup programs on your system tray.

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look at available amount/cached and 34% just for chrome?

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That's perfectly normal, That's the number I was getting when I had 8, Around 2.9 Gbs without doing anything.

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1 minute ago, TheRiskk said:

look at amount available and also the only thing running is google chrome

As LTT showed recently, chrome eats 8GB of RAM for breakfast and another 8 for lunch. Don't be surprised. 

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As for the "issue", I don't really see one. Everything looks normal. You are not swapping to pagefile, nor are you caching an obscene amount of memory. If you start getting warnings that you are running low on memory while performing normal tasks, then you should take a look to see what might be causing it, but it looks good from what I can see. 

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so should i only be worried if i get a decrease in performance or errors then and just carry on?

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8 minutes ago, TheRiskk said:

look at amount available and also the only thing running is google chrome

You're using 2.6 GB. 

 

8GB - 2.6GB = 5.4GB available.

 

Majority of the "missing" 100MB is hardware reserved. As it doesn't show more decimal places, it doesn't show the specific amounts, so some will be rounded. I don't see anything wrong here. Windows, background applications and Chrome will easily take up 2.6GB

 

EDIT: Also, no need to post the topic twice. 

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2 minutes ago, TheRiskk said:

so should i only be worried if i get a decrease in performance or errors then and just carry on?

Exactly. Nothing looks out of the ordinary in that screenshot, and as long as performance is not suffering, you should be fine. 

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