High Memory Usage Not Adding Up

[Waubrey]

Hi Guys, 

 

I have recently built a new computer and have run into an issue over the past week or so of extremely high memory usage. Generally the system will start out using 30-40% without having anything open and runs at 90+% on what I would consider a light workload. I have already done the following reading other forums: 

 

Turning off real-time protection and setting up windows defender as a scheduled task once a week

Clearing standby with Rammap 

 

When adding up the commits it doesn't even come close to the 16gbs of ram I have installed. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. 

[Vishera]

Do you use a 32-bit OS?

What CPU do you have?

[Vishera]

2 minutes ago, Benji said:

@Vishera Most likely not, otherwise it wouldn't explicitly denote a 32-bit application in the Task Manager.

Good catch,did not see that 

[Waubrey]

My apologies for not adding system specs I have attached all info below. 

 

Fractal Design Silent Series R3 120MM

 

WD BlueTM 3D NAND SATA M.2 2280 SSD, 500GB

 

Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB(2x8GB) DDR4
3200MHz CL16 
 

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core/12-Thread 7nm
Processor | Socket AM4 3.6GHz/ 4.2 GHz
Boost, Wraith Stealth cooler, 65W
 

EVGA 600 BR, 80+ Bronze 600W, 3 Year

 

GIGABYTE B450 AORUS PRO WIFI Socket AM4 |
Dual Channel DDR4 3200(OC), 2x M.2 | USB
3.1, DVI-D, HDMI, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RGB
LED ATX Motherboard

 

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G GDDR5 |
1830 MHz Boost Clock, 8002 MHz Memory
Clock | PCI-E 3.0, HDMIx1, DPx3 |

 

Corsair Carbide Series 275R Tempered Glass

 

64 bit operating system 

[Vishera]

If you close all of the programs in the background,how much RAM does your system utilize?

[Waubrey]

12 minutes ago, Benji said:

Okay. How does the Performance->RAM tab in the Task Manager look like?

[Vishera]

What does Resource Monitor say in the Memory tab?

[Waubrey]

15 minutes ago, Vishera said:

If you close all of the programs in the background,how much RAM does your system utilize?

This is the processes after a fresh restart the memory will begin to climb and eventually reach 90+% even though I am not doing anything overly demanding 

 

[Waubrey]

2 minutes ago, Vishera said:

What does Resource Monitor say in the Memory tab?

This is the resource monitor with 3 chrome tabs open, whatsapp, and one internet explore tab right after the fresh restart

[Vishera]

Just now, Waubrey said:

This is the processes after a fresh restart the memory will begin to climb and eventually reach 90+% even though I am not doing anything overly demanding 

Could be a memory leak,bloatware doing things or both.

2 minutes ago, Waubrey said:

This is the resource monitor with 3 chrome tabs open, whatsapp, and one internet explore tab right after the fresh restart

 

Spoiler

 

Please press on private in the private column.

Also Chrome+Skype+What'sApp+Google Drive Sync are eating a gigabyte of memory after a fresh boot...

[Waubrey]

27 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Could be a memory leak,bloatware doing things or both.

Please press on private in the private column.

Also Chrome+Skype+What'sApp+Google Drive Sync are eating a gigabyte of memory after a fresh boot...

[Vishera]

9 minutes ago, Waubrey said:

Chrome uses more than a Gigabyte,Chrome is fairly RAM hungry and can easily use 5GB or even 10GB if you open enough tabs.

[Waubrey]

7 minutes ago, Vishera said:

Chrome uses more than a Gigabyte,Chrome is fairly RAM hungry and can easily use 5GB or even 10GB if you open enough tabs.

Understandable occasionally MsMpEng.exe will hit 500,000 in commit column and im just not too sure why its running that high or even at all?

[Vishera]

Just now, Waubrey said:

MsMpEng.exe

That's Windows Defender,you know Windows 10 it does whatever it wants without asking you.

[Waubrey]

Hi Everyone, 

 

I am still having issues with high memory usage hitting 100% and have noticed even when I kill the task using significant memory eg. chrome will say its using 50% of 16gbs so I will end task my computer seems to reallocate the % elsewhere so whatsapp will begin using 40% previously it was only using 5%. I have run malwarebytes several times and quarantined everything they have highlighted although there was not much. Any other suggestions?