Really high ram usage

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

Been experiencing really high ram usage for the past 2 weeks, getting 70% and high usage straight after boot but then sometimes it will only be around 30% after boot... anyone know whats happening here?

[MVPernula]

You can start by disabling unnecessary software during startup, that can sower backround usage alot.

I suppose you're not using all those programs at the same time ALL the time?

 

Uninstall trash software if you have any.

 

And a good way to keep everything super clean is to reinstall/format windows once in a while to keep all the poop out.

Aside from that something might be causing a memory leak.

[VVoltor]

4 minutes ago, Jack Kaye Pc Gamer said:

anyone know whats happening here?

 

You have a lot of processes running that are using RAM?

There's nothing wrong with Windows using the memory that is available. It's much faster to pull things from RAM instead of keeping it empty and having to load things from your hard drive again.

[Simon771]

Depends how much RAM you have in total.

If you have like 1GB ram and Windows 10 .... well that's not that bad.

Even if you have 2 or 3GB, that numbers don't surprise me, since I have 16GB ram, and when I close all the apps I possible can, my Windows are still using more than 3GB RAM.

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

Just now, VVoltor said:

 

You have a lot of processes running that are using RAM?

There's nothing wrong with Windows using the memory that is available. It's much faster to pull things from RAM instead of keeping it empty and having to load things from your hard drive again.

causes issues in chrome though as when i have multiple videos open when i go back to them it has to reload web page cause of ram usage being at 90%

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

2 minutes ago, MVPernula said:

You can start by disabling unnecessary software during startup, that can sower backround usage alot.

I suppose you're not using all those programs at the same time ALL the time?

 

Uninstall trash software if you have any.

 

And a good way to keep everything super clean is to reinstall/format windows once in a while to keep all the poop out.

Aside from that something might be causing a memory leak.

just uninstalled msi gaming app, msi fast boot and msi command centre as it seems like since i got them it has started and restarted now ram usage is only 30%, will have to keep an eye out to see if it next boot ram usage is high again or if one of though programs was causing it

[MrDuffy]

Good afternoon,

You appear to be having three instances of Spotify running.

[MVPernula]

5 minutes ago, Jack Kaye Pc Gamer said:

just uninstalled msi gaming app, msi fast boot and msi command centre as it seems like since i got them it has started and restarted now ram usage is only 30%, will have to keep an eye out to see if it next boot ram usage is high again or if one of though programs was causing it

This one is pretty good too:

 

 

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

Just now, MVPernula said:

This one is pretty good too:

 

 

cheers, seems like uninstalling them programs has worked though as i have rebooted several times and ram usage is back to normal, one of them must have had a memory leak

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

3 minutes ago, MrDuffy said:

Good afternoon,

You appear to be having three instances of Spotify running.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

 

whenever i open spotify it shows as 3 processes

[VVoltor]

13 minutes ago, Jack Kaye Pc Gamer said:

causes issues in chrome though as when i have multiple videos open when i go back to them it has to reload web page cause of ram usage being at 90%

Sounds like Chrome's 'tab discarding'. If you want you can disable it by going to

chrome://flags/

then scroll down to where it says 'Automatic tab discarding' and disable it

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

2 minutes ago, VVoltor said:

Sounds like Chrome's 'tab discarding'. If you want you can disable it by going to

chrome://flags/

then scroll down to where it says 'Automatic tab discarding' and disable it

disabled it, thanks

[LogicalDrm]

On 5.5.2017 at 2:32 PM, Jack Kaye Pc Gamer said:

causes issues in chrome though as when i have multiple videos open when i go back to them it has to reload web page cause of ram usage being at 90%

 

Thats one part of Chrome being RAM hog and another part of Flash being memory hog. If you get 70% RAM usage on startup, you have too much bload running background.

[Jack Kaye Pc Gamer]

2 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

 

Thats one part of Chrome being RAM hog and another part of Flash being memory hog. If you get 70% RAM usage on startup, you have too much bload running background.

one of the msi programs had a memory leak of some sort, uninstalled them all and now ram usage is back to normal