Memory usage slowly increasing over time

[The DongFather]

Not sure if this is the right place but anyway:

 

As I'm using my computer, the amount of memory being used slowly increases throughout the session. I have 24GB DDR3 at 1600MHz (2 x 8GB + 2 x 4GB). There's no way I can be using 20GB whilst just surfing the web (on one or 2 tabs max) and talking to my friends on Skype. I just built this computer yesterday so maybe there's a problem there but I dunno because whenever I look in task manager or resource monitor, nothing is using a lot of memory. Just while typing this the memory usage has gone up 2% from 79% to 81%. I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit.

[othertomperson]

I wouldn't be surprised if Chrome decided it wanted 50 instances open and that's where it's gone. Otherwise, general memory leaks.

[The DongFather]

I wouldn't be surprised if Chrome decided it wanted 50 instances open and that's where it's gone. Otherwise, general memory leaks.

How would I go about finding which programs are causing the leaks and fixing them?

[Tedster]

How are you managing to get that much RAM usage? I have the same RAM configuration as you and find myself struggling to use more than 7GB.

[Tedster]

How would I go about finding which programs are causing the leaks and fixing them?

By finding the programs that are using absurd amounts of memory? I have no clue if you can even help memory leaks, but making sure that everything is up-to-date may help.

[The DongFather]

How are you managing to get that much RAM usage? I have the same RAM configuration as you and find myself struggling to use more than 7GB.

That's exactly my point.

By finding the programs that are using absurd amounts of memory? I have no clue if you can even help memory leaks, but making sure that everything is up-to-date may help.

But like I said, nothing is using a large amount of ram.