Windows cached TOO much RAM.

[Mervyn1125]

I have a total of 32Gb of RAM, and recently I found out that windows was caching around half of my RAM. 

 

RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 1600Mhz

 

Help!!!   

[Guest]

Thnx for the Windows key brb

 

I think you need Win 8.1 Pro for that.

EDIT: nope

 

This may help: http://superuser.com/questions/694322/too-much-ram-in-cache

[Keyboy]

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Follow your own topic and remove the images or censor the Product ID!

[paprikman]

Sad, the key is already used...

[Mervyn1125]

Follow your own topic and remove the images or censor the Product ID!

Thanks for the reminder. Cheers.

[G33k 4 L1F3]

Cache memory becomes avaliable when needed for applications and software that require it. When doing editing, it will automatically allow the application to use the cached ram if needed.

There is a problem though. Could be a software memory leak. Have you installed any software recently this?

[.spider.]

The caching is normal but the 17.1GB which are hardware reserved are too high. 

Do you run a RAM disk or the internal graphic? 

[9justinas9]

The caching is normal but the 17.1GB which are hardware reserved are too high. 

Do you run a RAM disk or the internal graphic? 

he is CF it with r7 GPU

[9justinas9]

wow it actually impressed me a10-7850k with 32gb of ram? and nice picture with vitaly

[.spider.]

he is CF it with r7 GPU

And why does it need 17GB Ram?

[SkixAces]

The caching is normal but the 17.1GB which are hardware reserved are too high. 

Do you run a RAM disk or the internal graphic? 

What do you mean with: "the 17.1GB which are hardware reserved are too high"?

I have 8GB in my system and it says 8194MB is reserved. Does this mean that is too high to then?

[G33k 4 L1F3]

You guys need to understand why cache exists. When the OS needs space to hold info, and needs it fast, its fail saves itself by producing a "cache" area to hold all of it. this is space on the RAM commited to holding whatever the OS asks it to hold. don't mistaken this with the applications that need RAM space. These need to request RAM space from the "Avaliable" RAM in your system.  It cannot touch the "Cache" memory being use for the OS itself. And the only way to lower the Cache, is to get rid of anything that is using it. that being a program holding it, or disabling services, etc.

 

The reasoning behind the OS taking up nearly HALF of your total RAM available, I do not know.

 

I recommend checking out your services, and disabling any that you feel is unneeded. this my lower the amount of cache that is being used by the OS.

[.spider.]

 

I have 8GB in my system and it says 8194MB is reserved. 

Cant be it would mean that there isnt a single MB free for the OS itself 

 

Mine looks like this 

[SkixAces]

Cant be it would mean that there isnt a single MB free for the OS itself 

 

Mine looks like this 

ram.PNG

It says that. Here is a link to my screenshot: http://imgur.com/9JLfuKF

Idk why but the os says 16GB is installed, while I only have 8GB installed.

The grey box is system reserved hardware and it clearly says 8GB

[.spider.]

Idk why but the os says 16GB is installed, while I only have 8GB installed.

And the control panel says 8GB?

I don't know why you all have so much RAM used by hardware.

[SkixAces]

And the control panel says 8GB?

I don't know why you all have so much RAM used by hardware.

I made a seperate topic, of it: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/362104-installed-2x4gb-ram-but-system-says-16gb-is-installed/ . But basically, every windows program says 16GB installed, 8GB usable. While my bios says 8GB installed.

And the system reserved hardware is 8GB which is basically all.

I have build my pc myself, and I bought 2x4GB of ram.