ram in premier pro

[nekololi69]

i wanted to know if my way of editing is going to hurt anything on my computer or not.

So i have my cache, scratch, and project folder set to the same drive separate from OS and adobe app drive and 16 gb of ram.

when i drop files from the drive onto my premier timeline ram and disk usage shoots up taking up all the ram then goes down to 11gb or so.

is this normal or is there a problem im not seeing?

 

thanks for your time and patience im completely new to editing.