Ram Usage

[WaitDontSh00t]

Hey guys, I was a little bit confused looking at my task manager, and was hoping someone can explain it to me!

 

 

As you can see, this is my idle usage. I'm not quite sure if that seems a bit high or not. I only have Precision X open and Intel XTU. I'm not quite sure what this Cached and Commited usage is though too.

If someone can clarify, that'd be great! Thank you!

 

My Specs:

 

CPU: i5-3570K @4.00GHz

 

RAM: Corsair XMS 3 16gb 1600Mhz

 

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 FTW Edition

 

MOBO: Asus P8Z77-V LE PLUS 

 

Power Supply: Corsair TX650M 

 

COOLING: Antec Kuhler h2o 620

 

STORAGE: Western Digital WD Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Western Digital WD Black 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD

 

OS: Windows 10 Pro

[Arty]

2.3GB idle is good.

committed is how much ram and pagefile.

cache is pagefile.  

[Oshino Shinobu]

"Cached memory holds data or program code that has been fetched into memory during the current session but is no longer in use now. If necessary, the Windows memory manager will flush the contents of cached memory to make room for newly summoned data. "

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff382715.aspx

 

Commited memory is virtual memory created by the OS's processes. Basically, reserved virtual memory for processes, based on your total RAM + paging file space

 

2.3GB usage at idle seems pretty good.