My computer is using RAM without using it?

[PedroBarbosa]

Hi

My computer sometimes gets really slow with sudden fps breaks and I think it's because of my RAM.

When i go to the device manager i see that my computer ram is using +70% of my 8GB RAM, but it doesn't show me why

I think this picture will help me understand better:

Sorry for a portuguese image.

The item on top translated is system and compressed memory.

I have 8GB RAM

You can see that by order it is only using 262MB RAM

 

My specs:

 

GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 980 4GB MSI 

Ram: 8 gigs DDR3 

CPU: Intel i7 4770k 

Motherboard: MSI GD65 Gaming z87

OS: Windows 10 

[Swndlr]

Try reinstalling both sticks.

[Naeaes]

That task, 'System and compressed memory' isn't a program like the others. It keeps tabs on how much memory you're using and compresses things you have in memory so that it doesn't have to use pagefile as often. Kind of like creating a zip file in RAM. Compressing memory doesn't make it a whole lot slower but using the pagefile really does. Since it has to compress memory to begin with, you could really use more RAM. Either that or learn to use your computer more conservatively.

[Critiax]

looks like a memory leak

[PedroBarbosa]

looks like a memory leak

How can i know for sure and how can i correct?

 

I found this:

The red box translated is: Pagination Failures

[SpenceKP]

snip

Im having a super similar problem, 99% of my 16 GB of RAM end up used within an hour of my computer being on, if I find a solution I'll be sure to let you know.

[PedroBarbosa]

That task, 'System and compressed memory' isn't a program like the others. It keeps tabs on how much memory you're using and compresses things you have in memory so that it doesn't have to use pagefile as often. Kind of like creating a zip file in RAM. Compressing memory doesn't make it a whole lot slower but using the pagefile really does. Since it has to compress memory to begin with, you could really use more RAM. Either that or learn to use your computer more conservatively.

Even though, you can see that it is only using 300mb of ram.

If you do the math on all the ram usage tasks, it won't even come closer to 1.5gb and it shows that the total is 75% of 8gb

[Naeaes]

Even though, you can see that it is only using 300mb of ram.

If you do the math on all the ram usage tasks, it won't even come closer to 1.5gb and it shows that the total is 75% of 8gb

Yeah. It's kind of a pre-emptive measure. There has to be plenty of free space in RAM for it to keep operating normally. That list is too slow anyway to show real usage. The demand for RAM can come and go in like nanoseconds.

[SuperEagle]

You can also try reinstalling windows or trying to look for things in your unistall a program utility for things that look out of the normal.