Windows 10 INSANE Ram Usage

[Cany]

Hi there, its me again with another question

 

I was spontaniously looking at the Windows Task Manager at my Alienware M17x with 16 Gigs of RAM. I was kinda confused because at the moment i was stuck at using 82%(!!!!) of that RAM. I digged in further and discovered that my Windows User is using around 900 MBs of RAM with Chrome open. The Task Manager still displays me a Usage of 13.1 GB out of 15.9GB installed. Any suggestions why? How can i lower that

[NinJake]

Restart your laptop, check task manager after all the startup programs launch. Report back with RAM usage. (I avoid chrome, and use Firefox instead)

[Gonio]

have you already turned of the PC? And show pics of RAM usage in taskmanager. If you know what processes eat up the RAM it's easier to trouble shoot.

[Energycore]

1 minute ago, Cany said:

Hi there, its me again with another question

 

I was spontaniously looking at the Windows Task Manager at my Alienware M17x with 16 Gigs of RAM. I was kinda confused because at the moment i was stuck at using 82%(!!!!) of that RAM. I digged in further and discovered that my Windows User is using around 900 MBs of RAM with Chrome open. The Task Manager still displays me a Usage of 13.1 GB out of 15.9GB installed. Any suggestions why? How can i lower that

If you'd been using it for a while, chances are all that data is information that the system keeps in there just in case, but will overwrite if you need more space. You should only be worried if you're experiencing stutter in games or while browsing.

[tlink]

probably windows compressed memory that it thinks it might need quickly again.

[Cany]

Thanks for the fast replies.

Yes I've already restarted my computer. Nothing changed. I now used RamMap and I've got an Nonpaged Pool (w/e that is). I'll add photos below. Any suggestions?

[Mira Yurizaki]

The non-paged pool is through the roof, suggesting a kernel mode routine isn't behaving well. This probably means one of your drivers is leaking memory.

[FlushaDev]

Try going in a game that uses at least 8 Gigs of RAM, then take a screenshot with the game running (Also close RamMap).

Pretty sure windows lowers it's own RAM usage when games or RAM hungry apps are running

[meenmeen1103]

Click on resource monitor and have working set column display high to low, see what processes take up a big amount

[Cany]

Yup thats exactly what it was.

I fixxed it wit the regedit:

 

hkey Local Machine/System/CurrentControlSet/Control/SessionManager/MemoryManagment/NonPagedPoolSize<- Modify that one. Turn it into decimal and set it to 192

 

After that turn to

hkey Local Machine/System/ControlSet001/Services/Null/Start<--- Modify this and set it to 4

 

- Done

Im not at nonpagedpool of around 200 MB - all fine