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I had 16 GB of ram in my system. I checked my system, and it usually used 10 GB of ram.

I upgraded to 32 GB of ram, and saw usage jump to 14-15 GB of ram. I am doing the same things as before.

 

Any ideas/theories why the amount of ram my system is using has gone up, when nothing has changed?

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Check in Task Manager and filter from greatest to least and see what is eating up your RAM, unless it is hardware reserved. 

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Its interesting Firefox has two big chunks, WWAHost.exe, and for some reason a program connected to my printer. Despite my printer not being in active use.

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Caching. Programs will store more things in memory when there's more memory available to use.

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Only way to know for sure is to have the data from Task Manager from before you upgraded the RAM, and compare it to after you upgraded the RAM.

 

Consider yourself lucky if your use previously was ~10GB.  I could hit 12GB pretty regularly before I upgraded.  But I'm the clown who likes to keep 50 tabs open at the same time on 3 different browsers.

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For what its worth my theory was that more RAM more catching.

Well I still have tons of ram to run new games on that in theory require 16 GB of ram to run.

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