Help with available physical memory

[TomL]

Hi just noticed this whilst trying to play a game, went on task manager and noticed that 7000mb  was counting for close to 50% of memory whilst i have 2x16gb corsair vengence ram installed. i went onto system info and saw this:

available memory is lime half of 32gb, could i get some help? any ideas what it might be? my system specs listed below if this helps at all:

• CPU
  i9 9900k
• Motherboard
  Asus TUF Z390M-PRO GAMING
• RAM
  2x16gb corsair vengeance ddr4 2666MHz
• GPU
  EVGA RTX 2070
• Case
  corsair carbide air 240
• PSU
  650W Corsair
• Cooling
  Corsair H100i V2

[spartaman64]

memory leak? restart computer

[TomL]

lol feel stupid for not even trying that, most typical solution ever hahaha, i thought i know a fair amount about computers. turn off and on again fixed it, thanks for the help! 

[Windows7ge]

10 minutes ago, TomL said:

lol feel stupid for not even trying that, most typical solution ever hahaha, i thought i know a fair amount about computers. turn off and on again fixed it, thanks for the help! 

Do you turn off your computer every night or do you leave it running? Leaving it running can cause RAM to just fill up more and more and more without emptying because applications don't always clean up after themselves when you're done.