Unexplained ram usage

[Donkeyreaper15]

3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

You can also try this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/rammap

It should show more details than task manager.

it shoes basically the same thing:(

[WkdPaul]

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[Donkeyreaper15]

lul, please ignore the reposing, I thought the reply disappear so i tried again twice, then found out there was a next page button

[Eigenvektor]

3 minutes ago, Donkeyreaper15 said:

it shoes basically the same thing:(

If you switch to "Processes", sure. Try the "Use Counts" or "File Summary" tabs. That should give you more details (e.g. how much RAM is used by each file). See if that adds up to your ~4 GB.

[Donkeyreaper15]

3 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

If you switch to "Processes", sure. Try the "Use Counts" or "File Summary" tabs. That should give you more details (e.g. how much RAM is used by each file). See if that adds up to your ~4 GB.

Nope same story:(

[Alan G]

I have 32 GB or RAM on my workstation and it is not uncommon to see memory usage >30% under most work conditions.  Some of this is a result of software and Adobe are pretty bad with their Creative Cloud suite.  I run Firefox as my browser and depending on how many tabs are open it can be a hog as well.  There are a bunch of NVIDIA stuff that I just leave alone.  My bottom line is whether performance is affected and to date I've seen nothing that makes me want to change anything.  Windows uses what Windows wants to use.

[Donkeyreaper15]

5 minutes ago, Alan G said:

I have 32 GB or RAM on my workstation and it is not uncommon to see memory usage >30% under most work conditions.  Some of this is a result of software and Adobe are pretty bad with their Creative Cloud suite.  I run Firefox as my browser and depending on how many tabs are open it can be a hog as well.  There are a bunch of NVIDIA stuff that I just leave alone.  My bottom line is whether performance is affected and to date I've seen nothing that makes me want to change anything.  Windows uses what Windows wants to use.

Thank you so much for your input:)) although that being said, I have only 8gb and I cannot help but to feel cheated cause the ram is being used by an unknown culprit:( I know it is something that have a high chance of being fixable because when i boot into safe mode with networking, Ram usage drop to about 19% which is what i typically expect, 30ish with chrome open

[Eigenvektor]

16 minutes ago, Donkeyreaper15 said:

Nope same story:(

If you add up the values in "active" you can see that it adds up to the ~5.1 GB. You can see that processes are taking up around 2.5 GB of that. A large chunk (1 GB) is used by "Mapped File" and another large chunk is used by "Nonpaged pool" (722 MB).

 

Do you have any tools from the notebook manufacturer installed (Acer), some kind of disk cache or similar? I'd try stopping those programs/services and see if memory usage goes down. I think I remember someone had issues with some Acer tools before.

 

As I said before, try the "Details" tab in task manager, add the column "NP Pool" and sort by that. At least the 722 MB should show up there. Might be some misbehaving driver.

[Donkeyreaper15]

8 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

If you add up the values in "active" you can see that it adds up to the ~5.1 GB. You can see that processes are taking up around 2.5 GB of that. A large chunk (1 GB) is used by "Mapped File" and another large chunk is used by "Nonpaged pool" (722 MB).

 

Do you have any tools from the notebook manufacturer installed (Acer), some kind of disk cache or similar? I'd try stopping those programs/services and see if memory usage goes down. I think I remember someone had issues with some Acer tools before.

 

As I said before, try the "Details" tab in task manager, add the column "NP Pool" and sort by that. At least the 722 MB should show up there. Might be some misbehaving driver.

ah thanks, so how do I check which driver is  ausing the problem?

 

[Donkeyreaper15]

11 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

If you add up the values in "active" you can see that it adds up to the ~5.1 GB. You can see that processes are taking up around 2.5 GB of that. A large chunk (1 GB) is used by "Mapped File" and another large chunk is used by "Nonpaged pool" (722 MB).

 

Do you have any tools from the notebook manufacturer installed (Acer), some kind of disk cache or similar? I'd try stopping those programs/services and see if memory usage goes down. I think I remember someone had issues with some Acer tools before.

 

As I said before, try the "Details" tab in task manager, add the column "NP Pool" and sort by that. At least the 722 MB should show up there. Might be some misbehaving driver.

I tried to use poolmon, this is the result, is this normal?