Ram being overused?

[Azra]

My pc is currently frozen, but i dont know why recently its been stuttering a lot and being really slow for the past few weeks. I open task manager and i see most of my ram is being used up (70 when im doing what i consider light and 99% when im doing something intense) but i decided to ignore the issue and not diagnose it properly.

 

The thing is my pc used to be able handle my usual work flow and many tabs before with no noticeable issues.

 

I currently have 16gb of ddr5 ram. As im writing this post my pc is completely frozen and I had open 5 windows, a few tabs, adobe acrobat with a few docs, the webapp version of microsoft word with a few docs, youtube and chat gpt. Please see the image attached.

 

I cant check right now but is it really just firefox simply eating up all my ram or is it something else?

If it’s a ram issue how much should I upgrade to?

 

 

[dizmo]

What does task manager say is using most of your RAM? I'd have gone with 32GB personally, 16GB can be pushing it.

[Azra]

6 minutes ago, dizmo said:

What does task manager say is using most of your RAM? I'd have gone with 32GB personally, 16GB can be pushing it.

I just restarted my pc but yea just firefox taking up most of the ram

[Azra]

Just now, Azra said:

I just restarted my pc but yea just firefox taking up most of the ram

the last straw that broke the camels back is went i tried opening my figma project and my computer completely froze

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, Azra said:

My pc is currently frozen, but i dont know why recently its been stuttering a lot and being really slow for the past few weeks. I open task manager and i see most of my ram is being used up (70 when im doing what i consider light and 99% when im doing something intense) but i decided to ignore the issue and not diagnose it properly.

 

The thing is my pc used to be able handle my usual work flow and many tabs before with no noticeable issues.

 

I currently have 16gb of ddr5 ram. As im writing this post my pc is completely frozen and I had open 5 windows, a few tabs, adobe acrobat with a few docs, the webapp version of microsoft word with a few docs, youtube and chat gpt. Please see the image attached.

 

I cant check right now but is it really just firefox simply eating up all my ram or is it something else?

If it’s a ram issue how much should I upgrade to?

 

 

Something isn't normal here, what you're doing should use less than 12GB if not 10, I have like 12  tabs open + some software and uses 11

So you may have some virus, bad RAM, whatever

Do some serious antivirus and windows diagnostics

[Azra]

22 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Something isn't normal here, what you're doing should use less than 12GB if not 10, I have like 12  tabs open + some software and uses 11

So you may have some virus, bad RAM, whatever

Do some serious antivirus and windows diagnostics

how do i find a virus?

[PDifolco]

1 minute ago, Azra said:

how do i find a virus?

I use MalwareBytes, seems to be amongst the best and less intrusive one around