RAM high usage on window 10

[DeadlyKitten13]

Hello everyone,

I've been having this issue where my ram usage is always really high. I have few background programs running but nothing too demanding.

my setup is:

Windows 10Pro 64-bit with latest updates available.

4770K(overclocked)

970

16GB of ddr3 ram

currently the usage is 13.0/15.9GB. I'm running google chrome and few light apps. Is there some optimizer out there that is actually good and doesn't have malware?

 

[Guest]

Check task manager, what's using the most? 

[tlink]

how many tabs do you have open in chrome? can you actually tell us what is using up your ram? (just check task manager or resource management)

[Mira Yurizaki]

Fire up your Task Manager, go to the Performance Tab, and check the memory section, as an example:

 

How much is the "Non-paged pool" using?

[Enderman]

Did you upgrade or clean install windows 10?

[TetraSky]

Close chrome and those "light apps", tell us again how much RAM is being used. Should be around 3 to 4GB of used RAM.

 

Oh and RAM optimizer are bullshit.

You don't need those. As you close and open softwares, RAM will free itself up. If need be, it will put the unimportant stuff in the page file, freeing even more RAM.

[DeadlyKitten13]

i just force closed chrome and it dropped like 18% but 70% on few background things seems too high to me

[DeadlyKitten13]

Just now, Enderman said:

Did you upgrade or clean install windows 10?

upgrade from a fresh windows 8.1.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, DeadlyKitten13 said:

i just force closed chrome and it dropped like 18% but 70% on few background things seems too high to me

 

Go to processes and see what's using the most.

[bgibbz]

1 minute ago, DeadlyKitten13 said:

upgrade from a fresh windows 8.1.

I wouldn't recommend upgrading, lots of issues have occurred from this. Instead just back up your files and clean install. 

[DeadlyKitten13]

currently firefox and MEmu (android emulator) but that totals to roughly 1.5GB

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, DeadlyKitten13 said:

upgrade from a fresh windows 8.1.

Definitely looks like a memory leak caused by the upgrade.

Here is how you can clean install windows 10 (which is what should have been done in the first place) http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

Then this stuff won't happen anymore.

[Sniperfox47]

Some of that may be superfetch, especially if you're using a hard drive. If it's turned on it can chew up your RAM. That doesn't mean you should turn it off though, since it will do its best to gracefully release RAM when it's needed by other apps. It basically caches your most recently used apps and files to RAM so that when you launch an app it doesn't sit there for 20 seconds while it tries to pull it off a slow hard drive that's already preoccupied by a file transfer.

[Guest]

Just now, DeadlyKitten13 said:

currently firefox and MEmu (android emulator) but that totals to roughly 1.5GB

 

Hmmm idk maybe you have alot of things open that just add up. Windows defender isn't in there somewhere right?

[DeadlyKitten13]

Just now, Abyss Gaming said:

Hmmm idk maybe you have alot of things open that just add up. Windows defender isn't in there somewhere right?

God no. i killed that thing as soon as i logged in the first time.

[Donut417]

Id have to agree with @Enderman. Every Upgrade install of Windows 10 I ever did, was botched in some way. Also, I have noticed that Chrome can use a lot of Ram. I currently am at 45% Ram Usage of 16Gigs  with 2 chrome windows open with a few tabs in each. Plus extras like Hangouts, Steam and ETC. Id recommend a clean install. 

[DeadlyKitten13]

Just now, Enderman said:

Definitely looks like a memory leak caused by the upgrade.

Here is how you can clean install windows 10 (which is what should have been done in the first place) http://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

Then this stuff won't happen anymore.

oh man. that's gonna be a pain in the ***.

[Enderman]

Just now, DeadlyKitten13 said:

oh man. that's gonna be a pain in the ***.

It's more of a pain of an ass now that you upgraded and now need to do a clean install anyway...

Could have saved time and effort by just clean installing first

Hopefully you learn a lesson for the future.

[DeadlyKitten13]

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

Some of that may be superfetch, especially if you're using a hard drive. If it's turned on it can chew up your RAM. That doesn't mean you should turn it off though, since it will do its best to gracefully release RAM when it's needed by other apps. It basically caches your most recently used apps and files to RAM so that when you launch an app it doesn't sit there for 20 seconds while it tries to pull it off a slow hard drive that's already preoccupied by a file transfer.

any idea how i can fix that? i currently got an SSD and a HDD but im running almost everything from the SSD.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Superfetch shouldn't be using up RAM. It should be caching stuff in RAM, but not actively use it.

 

I'm also worried about that 2.1GB non-paged pool. It's likely a driver memory leak.

[DeadlyKitten13]

Just now, Sniperfox47 said:

Some of that may be superfetch, especially if you're using a hard drive. If it's turned on it can chew up your RAM. That doesn't mean you should turn it off though, since it will do its best to gracefully release RAM when it's needed by other apps. It basically caches your most recently used apps and files to RAM so that when you launch an app it doesn't sit there for 20 seconds while it tries to pull it off a slow hard drive that's already preoccupied by a file transfer.

i just checked i actually have superfetch disabled. I guess fresh install in the only way...

[GigabitXe]

You can try disabling Windows update if you haven't already. I did that on my computer and my RAM usage dropped dramatically. Just make sure that you manually check for updates if you keep it shut off.

[DeadlyKitten13]

Will i need to format my SSD before i do a clean reinstall?

[HorrorCosmic]

You may not have to do a fresh install, if you haven't upgraded to the 1607 build that resolves a lot of issues within windows. But if you have then yeah a fresh install is probably best. What i'd do is double check your activation before you do since you came from windows 8. Then you can download windows 10 media creation tool. take a thumbdrive and make it a windows installer drive, boot to it and proceed to reinstall windows. making a boot drive from the creation tool insures that you'll have windows 10 build 1607