Absurdly high memory usage please help

[Epiclol86]

I have laptop with windows 10. I realised that with nothing open my pc uses 6.5 Gb of Ram (I have 16 btw). I'm almost sure that's absurdly high, and i've sweeped my PC for viruses, i found nothing. I checked all the active processes but their memory usage does't add up to 6gb, it adds up to a bit higher that 2! 

i have no idea what's happening, please help!

 

 

also, pc specs, if it helps :

16 gb of unpecified ram

i7 7600HQ

250 gb kingston m.2 ssd  (main drive)

1tb HDD of some sort (storage)

gtx 1060

[pmos]

3 minutes ago, Epiclol86 said:

I have laptop with windows 10. I realised that with nothing open my pc uses 6.5 Gb of Ram (I have 16 btw). I'm almost sure that's absurdly high, and i've sweeped my PC for viruses, i found nothing. I checked all the active processes but their memory usage does't add up to 6gb, it adds up to a bit higher that 2! 

i have no idea what's happening, please help!

 

 

also, pc specs, if it helps :

16 gb of unpecified ram

i7 7600HQ

250 gb kingston m.2 ssd  (main drive)

1tb HDD of some sort (storage)

gtx 1060

I don't think that's high when you have 16GB installed.. there more ram you have the more ram the system will use and cache, because it can.. try remove 8GB ram and see the ram usage drop by half

[Epiclol86]

5 minutes ago, pmos said:

I don't think that's high when you have 16GB installed.. there more ram you have the more ram the system will use and cache, because it can.. try remove 8GB ram and see the ram usage drop by half

oooh that actually makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

[pmos]

1 minute ago, Epiclol86 said:

oooh that actually makes a lot of sense! Thanks!

No problem :-)

[RadiatingLight]

maybe other user accounts?

 

after a restart my 16GB RAM system only goes up to about 3.5GB

[Epiclol86]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

maybe other user accounts?

 

after a restart my 16GB RAM system only goes up to about 3.5GB

nah i have the only account on my laptop but It did come with an unusually high amount of bloatware preinstalled so...

[pmos]

3 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

maybe other user accounts?

 

after a restart my 16GB RAM system only goes up to about 3.5GB

How much when you let it run for a while?

[pmos]

I will also check on my windows machine in a bit, has more than 16gb ram tho.

[TheLaserCucumber]

My laptop only uses this much if I turn off the pagefile (which I have done)