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Ram at 98 % load when doing basically nothing..

Dani360c
By Dani360c
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Sometimes when i have used my PC for a long day, downloading and playing some games or what not, my PC gets really slow and laggy and a quick look at "task manager" i think its called, shows almost 100 % use of ram even with nothing running. picture: sorry its in danish.
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Any easy fix for this? i have thought about throwing more ram in it anyway, so would that be a solution? :)
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There must be an application with a memory leak.

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Check to see windows detects all of it. One time I had this issue and one of my ram modules didnt click in all the way.  

 

I'd imagine something has a memory leak, chrome is awful about this after very prolonged use.

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Not trying to be a smart ass but programs like paint and photoshop take up a fair amount of ram. Close it down and see how it does then.

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Not trying to be a smart ass but programs like paint and photoshop take up a fair amount of ram. Close it down and see how it does then.

opened paint to save the screenshot after i noticed it ;)

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There must be an application with a memory leak.

i have a suspicion on with program it might be, can this be fixed somehow?

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opened paint to save the screenshot after i noticed it ;)

Look though and see if there are any programs using a large amount of memory, if they are and you don't need it close it down

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Not trying to be a smart ass but programs like paint and photoshop take up a fair amount of ram. Close it down and see how it does then.

paint is at 70MB, as you can see in the screenshot, I don't think that's the problem...

      

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Look though and see if there are any programs using a large amount of memory, if they are and you don't need it close it down

the two largest is at 100 mb for chrome and 34 mb for some other application 

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Is all of your ram working? Try switching channells

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restart pc and look again?

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Is all of your ram working? Try switching channells

should be working just fine, been running strong for about a year, except for these somewhat rare times this happens

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restart pc and look again?

usually fixes it, but i dont want to keep doing that everytime, need a permanent fix :P

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Memory leaks are always fixed with a restart.  You could try to find the culprit by using as few softwares as possible and seeing which one causes the RAM usage to jump.

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Memory leaks are always fixed with a restart.  You could try to find the culprit by using as few softwares as possible and seeing which one causes the RAM usage to jump.

as i feared :D

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