Windows reserved ram at 10gb while idle

[The clueless enthusiast]

Hi 

 

I'm sure this has been asked many times, but whenever I try searching I just get an error code back! (next topic coming up! :)

 

I have just upgraded my computer to a Ryzen 3700x from an fx 8320. I went from 8gb to 16gb ram.

 

When I was using my fx, w10 reserved only 4gb whilst now I have 16 windows has taken 10gb.

 

This cant be normal behaviour can it? if its abnormal is there any way to fix this?

[fuzz0r]

Could you take a screenshot of your processes tab filtered by memory?

And also a screenshot of your memory tab under performance(I think that's what it is called in English, I use a different language on mine)?

[The clueless enthusiast]

5 hours ago, fuzz0r said:

Could you take a screenshot of your processes tab filtered by memory?

And also a screenshot of your memory tab under performance(I think that's what it is called in English, I use a different language on mine)?

Yes that's the right word for it, heres the screenshots. I don't remember seeing windows defender there before but  even so I it doesn't add up to 10gb and no idea what windows wants with that much ram!

[fuzz0r]

23 minutes ago, The clueless enthusiast said:

Yes that's the right word for it, heres the screenshots. I don't remember seeing windows defender there before but  even so I it doesn't add up to 10gb and no idea what windows wants with that much ram!

 

 

That does seem strange. My only real thought about it is you might have a memory leak somewhere.

What does it look like if you press WIN+R and type resmon - look under memory and sort by allocated.

Is anything eating a ridiculous amount of memory?

[SpookyCitrus]

@The clueless enthusiast Did you fresh install Windows 10 after the upgrade? Best thing to do especially when replacing major components like Mobo, Ram, and CPU is to do a fresh installation of Windows. Most of the time if you just keep the same install of Windows after a major upgrade like that there will be issues.

[The clueless enthusiast]

24 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

That does seem strange. My only real thought about it is you might have a memory leak somewhere.

What does it look like if you press WIN+R and type resmon - look under memory and sort by allocated.

Is anything eating a ridiculous amount of memory?

same as last time, nothing that would account for 10gb

[Tan3l6]

Process Explorer should give more in depth overview of processes.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

[The clueless enthusiast]

5 minutes ago, SpookyCitrus said:

@The clueless enthusiast Did you fresh install Windows 10 after the upgrade? Best thing to do especially when replacing major components like Mobo, Ram, and CPU is to do a fresh installation of Windows. Most of the time if you just keep the same install of Windows after a major upgrade like that there will be issues.

That was my initial plan when upgrading however I formatted one of my large hdd to appear as separate drives in this pc, it seems the case that as its now a dynamic disk It cant be read by other windows systems bar the one that created it. this ive tried by removing and plugging it in to docks for other pcs to read...nothing. I don't know of any way to merge the partitions together and not for free (I don't have much money to buy anything) so that's a non starter sadly (although I suspect this windows itself is the problem)

 

p.s. its a 6tb drive so a simple back up/ copy, paste job really isn't an option either.

 

Thanks for the suggestion though

[The clueless enthusiast]

1 minute ago, Tan3l6 said:

Process Explorer should give more in depth overview of processes.

ive uploaded pictures of the explorer and nothing seems to account for 10gb

[Tan3l6]

2 minutes ago, The clueless enthusiast said:

ive uploaded pictures of the explorer and nothing seems to account for 10gb

Nah, Process Explorer is downloadable program not the built-in option:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

Task Manager and Resource Monitor are the two you screenshot'

[The clueless enthusiast]

2 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Nah, Process Explorer is downloadable program not the built-in option:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Thanks for the link heres the info, don't really know what im looking at tbh 

[The clueless enthusiast]

Just now, The clueless enthusiast said:

Thanks for the link heres the info, don't really know what im looking at tbh 

Although edge seems to be doing an awful lot for 2 tabs

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, The clueless enthusiast said:

Although edge seems to be doing an awful lot for 2 tabs

Just try to sort by "working set" and show the top rows.

It might not show much as your latest screenshots only show high Edge RAM usage. 

 

[The clueless enthusiast]

4 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Just try to sort by "working set" and show the top rows.

It might not show much as your latest screenshots only show high Edge RAM usage. 

 

here you go, still not much

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, The clueless enthusiast said:

here you go, still not much

 

OK, then it really might not be directly software issue.

Perhaps @SpookyCitrus is right and clean install is the only option. 

[The clueless enthusiast]

1 minute ago, Tan3l6 said:

OK, then it really might not be directly software issue.

Perhaps @SpookyCitrus is right and clean install is the only option. 

That being the case, anyone know how to merge partitions without losing data and preferably free?

[Tan3l6]

2 minutes ago, The clueless enthusiast said:

That being the case, anyone know how to merge partitions without losing data and preferably free?

I think MiniTool Partiton Wizard is the most capable. Most capable free partition tool in W10.

If that can't help, then the choice of partitioning software is wide. 

Also can't speak for command line/Linux free partitioning software.