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So I was looking at my task manager, and noticed I was using almost 33% of my available 8gb of RAM. Recently I had done an upgrade from 4gb to 8gb, so to be using nearly all of my previous RAM capacity can't be correct. WTF is using so much of my memory? Also I have a ton of shit running. What can I end??? Or is 2.5gb pretty average on background processes??? How I can reduce the memory use??? 

 

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Some apps use allocate a percentage of your ram, instead of just a certain amount

 

For example if you have 1gb, chrome will use 100mb, if you have 64gb chrome will use 6.4gb (Im estimating dont get mad)

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Well, Chrome eats your RAM. Antivirus also eats RAM but when used (like scanning).

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i have 32GB of RAM in my system. I idle at 4-5GBs....

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I just am not sure if background processes should be using more than 2gb. On your 16gb system, 4.5 is more than 1/4th of your available RAM. Sounds sort of off doesnt it?

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I use about 2GB under similar circumstances to you, from what I can tell. The difference between 2GB and 2.7GB could come from a few Chrome tabs, from desktop icons, system indexing, antivirus, etc.

 

Have you verified that the upgrade was successful and the computer recognizes all 8GB?

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I use about 2GB under similar circumstances to you, from what I can tell. The difference between 2GB and 2.7GB could come from a few Chrome tabs, from desktop icons, system indexing, antivirus, etc.

 

Have you verified that the upgrade was successful and the computer recognizes all 8GB?

Yep, pretty smooth upgrade, detected it immediately

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