My RAM keeps shooting up to 90+%. Can anyone help?

[SuperWeasel]

If I have my system running for several hours, my RAM usage keeps shooting right up to 90+%. It tends to happen if I have 2-3 twitch streams running in Chrome as well as a video chat in a Discord server running at the same time.

I initial thought it was due to the lack of overall RAM in my system which was original 8GB where the system would crash altogether after a similar load stated above. After installing additional RAM so that I had 16GB, the system was no longer crashing but the RAM usage get into the 90+% range after a few hours.

 

My current system is:

Processor: I5 6600K (not overclocked)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6GB

PSU: Corsair RM850i (850W)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170 Gaming K3

Cooler: CoolerMaster Seidon 120v

SSHD: Seagate 2TB Hybrid Drive

OS: Windows 10 Home (Version 20H2)

 

Any advice will be very helpful. Thank you

[Brooksie359]

That's very strange. I have 16 gb of ram and when I do something similar it doesn't usually jump to that much ram usage. Granted it does take up well over 8gb of ram something like 10 to 12 usually for me. 

[Brooksie359]

Granted I have alot of other applications open in the background. 

[Avanta8]

You might have a virus. What's your CPU usage?

[SuperWeasel]

8 hours ago, Avanta8 said:

You might have a virus. What's your CPU usage?

CPU usage is pretty normal under these loads not really exceeding 12%