why is my ram usage so high?

[2DPrinter]

UserBenchmarks: Game 134%, Desk 81%, Work 131%
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 - 77%
GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070-Ti - 175.9%
SSD:  SHGS31-1000GS-2 1TB - 100.1%
RAM: Oloy Warhawk Ram CL16-18-18 D4-3000 2x8GB - 76.8%
MBD: Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming 4
 

 

Okay so my Oloy Warhawk ram is at 10.2 out of 15.9 GB of usage right now, and I am only using chrome, task manager, and yt music. Why is this?? It gets so high I think it might crash programs if I open too many. 
Obviously if I opened too many things it would do this, but I am not sure why usage is so oddly high? 

[Boomy Beatle]

Check under the memory tab in task manager and see what's taking up the most RAM. Chrome gets more memory hungry with more plugins and having things like themes active. Also check if there are other major programs open you don't use and close them.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Did you use userbenchmark to get your information on if your ram usage was high?

[da na]

First of all, UserBenchMark is known to be unreliable and provide false information. Your ram usage probably isn't that high at all.

Second of all, press ctrl+shift+esc to open Task Manager and open the Performance tab, then go to the Memory.

[danomicar]

Chrome is a notorious ram hog. 

[lordmogul]

59 minutes ago, 2DPrinter said:

Okay so my Oloy Warhawk ram is at 10.2 out of 15.9 GB of usage right now, and I am only using chrome, task manager, and yt music. Why is this?? It gets so high I think it might crash programs if I open too many. 

There you have it. Chrome will get quite hungry. I bet if you just close the browser and open it again, even with the same tabs open, you'll be at easily 4-6 GB less usage.

One of the worst situations I found is watching youtube streams with active chats. That one process (which contains the youtube tab) can easily creep up to beyond 10GB alone and once RAM is full it crashes. No amount of pagefile can help there.

My recommendation: restart the browser from time to time. You can even set it to continue the last session on start, so none of your tabs are gone

[Daethz]

If you have a bazillion tabs open on chrome.

that's it right there, close em.

 

If that's not it, perhaps a screenshot of your task manager memory tab