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Hi Comm

 

So recently, I have discovered that windows 10 uses 34% of my RAM for no reason (2.7 GB for you math nerds). what could i do to reduce the RAM usage?

 

thx

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Thats normal and not an issue. 

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32 minutes ago, skNDstry said:

Hi Comm

 

So recently, I have discovered that windows 10 uses 34% of my RAM for no reason (2.7 GB for you math nerds). what could i do to reduce the RAM usage?

 

thx

Well, without us knowing how much ram you actually have installed, it would be impossible to calculate it anyway.

 

but that seems like normal usage for W10

 

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1 minute ago, Stormseeker9 said:

Well, without us knowing how much ram you actually have installed, it would be impossible to calculate it anyway.

 

but that seems like normal usage for W10

Work backwards, OP has 8gb of RAM.

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13 minutes ago, KarathKasun said:

Work backwards, OP has 8gb of RAM.

I mean, that he wrote ‘34% for the math nerds’ obviously you can calculate it with those 2 figures, I meant you could of just wrote 2.7/8GB.

 

but with only 2.7GB it could of been anyone’s guess if that makes sense

 

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That is normal and is because it's not being used anyways, so Windows figures it can use it to speed up some processes. It's always funny when you use something that maxes out your memory for a while. When youclose all programs after that, it'll sometimes be using less than 1 GB of RAM afterwards. :P

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Meanwhile, my laptop used like 2.4GB with Opera, Discord and Steam opened. Manjaro Deepin.

 

You can try purge Standbylist with software like Empty Standby List or RAMMap or Intelligent Standbylist Cleaner by Wagnard(DDU creator). 

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11 hours ago, xAcid9 said:

Meanwhile, my laptop used like 2.4GB with Opera, Discord and Steam opened. Manjaro Deepin.

 

You can try purge Standbylist with software like Empty Standby List or RAMMap or Intelligent Standbylist Cleaner by Wagnard(DDU creator). 

Depends on how much RAM you have.  My compute stick with 2gb of ram uses ~800mb at idle.

 

Used memory is nothing to worry about unless you start hitting forced paging (90%+ usage), where the PC just stops responding for seconds at a time while data is swapped to the page file.

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13 hours ago, skNDstry said:

Hi Comm

 

So recently, I have discovered that windows 10 uses 34% of my RAM for no reason (2.7 GB for you math nerds). what could i do to reduce the RAM usage?

 

thx

 

12 hours ago, Stormseeker9 said:

Well, without us knowing how much ram you actually have installed, it would be impossible to calculate it anyway.

 

but that seems like normal usage for W10

.34x = 2.7

 

Solve for x

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1 minute ago, Plutosaurus said:

 

.34x = 2.7

 

Solve for x

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1 hour ago, Plutosaurus said:

 

.34x = 2.7

 

Solve for x

You missed my second comment after this. 

 

Its simple math, just the way the post was written. Anyway - it isn’t important!

 

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