Extra high ram usage?

epic_ziver_D · August 26, 2019

Im trying to find a cause for extra high ram usage, when I look in task manager even under the Users tab where there is only 1 user it was showing 9 gigs being used, but under Performance it shows 15.7 out of 15.9 used (98% of ram). I cannot find out whats causing this (there seems to be an extra 6-8 gigs being used regardless not shown in task manager, also its probably making a pagefile for no reason).

I checked VMs (since they tend to not be in task manager) and couldn't find any vms open, this issue has been persisting between restarts and I cannot locate the cause, tried booting up without anything open (Haven't checked ram usage in safe mode quite yet) except for reinstalling Windows idk what to do.

Would love any help.

EDIT: This might belong in troubleshooting?

Dedayog · August 26, 2019

In Task Manager, can you screen shot it? Is there a large amount in Hardware Reserved?

epic_ziver_D · August 26, 2019

39 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

In Task Manager, can you screen shot it? Is there a large amount in Hardware Reserved?

Not at my pc rn, Hardware Reserved was under 100mb

EDIT: I suspect it might be related to internet browsers (Not sure what, but it seems to get better without any browsers open (This happens with chrome and firefox)