Where is my RAM going?

[Doom2024]

Hello,

I recently build my Tower PC,

and i m running Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5 6800-40, no xmp enabled.

 

And I don't understand where my RAM is going,
can someone pinpoint what is happening?

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

[Sychic]

There's a lot of background tasks which each take up a little bit of memory. Those small processes add up and can total to a lot.

[ki8aras]

the more ram you have available, the more windows uses up (up to a certain point), for example i can have 10 gigs ram usage with only like 3 lightweight apps running, whereas if i had 16gb of ram the usage wouldve been 6gigs

[Doom2024]

So it's just normal then.

Ok thank you two

[E-waste]

You may want to manually configure your page file to only be a maximum of 32GiB.

 

Having a 41GB or 47GB paging file is not very useful if you don't use 64+GB of total memory space.

 

Hold windows key + pause|break

 

Click advanced system settings.

 

I think it is the performance tab, but find the page with three sections, one of which mentions performance and will open the desktop effects.  Whatever that tab is, go to the button for "environment" or memory.

 

Whenever you get to the pagefile settings, select custom.

 

Set the minimum to 256 or 200, but no lower, and the maximum to 32768

 

This will prevent the page file on your ssd or hard disk to consume a larger space than the amount of physical memory you have.

 

If you set this to less than 32GB, you won't be able to use hibernate, hybrid shutdown (default) or sleep mode with hybrid sleep, which saves the running state to persistent storage in case you lose power in sleep mode.