Excessive RAM Usage

[northeastgamer]

Right, so my system has 8GB of DDR3 RAM installed. In theory, this should be fine, but when the computer is on idle, and only running google chrome with 4 tabs open and the steam client, 50% of my memory is in use. Earlier, I had just chrome (4 tabs) open in the background while running minecraft, and I received warning that my system was almost out of memory. I have had the computer for just over a year, and have never had this issue. 

 

P.S the rest of my system is as follows:

 

Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.2GHz

GTX 960 SSC

8GB DDR3 RAM @ 1333MHz

 

[Guest]

Did you play BF1? If so, seems it has a big memory leak?

[Geoffrey]

chrome is a ram sink

[Mello]

Minecraft is set to only use 1GB of ram, take a look at this.

[northeastgamer]

Just now, Mello said:

Minecraft is set to only use 1GB of ram, take a look at this.

 

I have done this, i just used minecraft as an example. This happens with most programs on my computer.

[EPPHO]

Look what uses your RAM and simply end that process if it's not one of the main Windows processes.

[Mello]

Take a look at your task manager and you can see what is using a lot of your memory (usually chrome)

and see in the performance tab how much exactly is it using, this should help you figure out what's happening.

[northeastgamer]

Just now, Mello said:

Take a look at your task manager and you can see what is using a lot of your memory (usually chrome)

and see in the performance tab how much exactly is it using, this should help you figure out what's happening.

 

1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

Look what uses your RAM and simply end that process if it's not one of the main Windows processes.

 

I find that it is often the windows processes that use the most. they use ~30 - 35% on idle alone.

[EPPHO]

4 minutes ago, northeastgamer said:

 

 

I find that it is often the windows processes that use the most. they use ~30 - 35% on idle alone.

Then reinstall Windows

[northeastgamer]

Just now, frozeNNN said:

Then reinstall Windows

 

*sigh* This is going to be fun...

[Mello]

How much exactly is it using with everything off even the background applications next to the time in the taskbar,

mine is using only 2.5GB.

[zMeul]

if it sais you are out of RAM it most likely means you have disabled page file - that's a no-no. especially since you have only 8GB of RAM

and Chrome .. it's a RAM hog, nothing out of the ordinary there

[EPPHO]

Just now, northeastgamer said:

 

*sigh* This is going to be fun...

It's not that hard neither painful  The main thing is that it will solve your problem 99%

[northeastgamer]

5 minutes ago, zMeul said:

if it sais you are out of RAM it most likely means you have disabled page file - that's a no-no. especially since you have only 8GB of RAM

and Chrome .. it's a RAM hog, nothing out of the ordinary there

 

Page file?

 

[zMeul]

2 minutes ago, northeastgamer said:

Page file?

right click on My Computer -> Properties

System -> Advanced System Settings -> Advanced -> Performance -> Advanced -> Virtual memory