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so. for months, no at least a whole year iv had to deal with my ram issues
I just end up restarting my pc whenever its at 99% or if a game lags. and its getting REALLY annoying and I want to fix it.

here's a screenshot of task manager after bootup, and turning on chrome with the usual tabs (21 tabs, including the forum, youtube, gmail/hotmail, some small JSON db outputs, and a few websites for school/work.
nothing huge. (well maybe twitch is currently playing)
 

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this is insane. 43% memory for that. TM has a LOT of stuff I don't know about. and I want to reduce it to normal stuff.
over time, doing nothing or browsing around, ram will creep up (takes about a day)


I just don't know how.
please help.

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some ssds and hdds

pls :( 

 

edit : see ? I just posted this, refreshed the page, and already creeped up a bit. nothing changed tho.
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3 minutes ago, givingtnt said:

so. for months, no at least a whole year iv had to deal with my ram issues
I just end up restarting my pc whenever its at 99% or if a game lags. and its getting REALLY annoying and I want to fix it.

here's a screenshot of task manager after bootup, and turning on chrome with the usual tabs (21 tabs, including the forum, youtube, gmail/hotmail, some small JSON db outputs, and a few websites for school/work.
nothing huge. (well maybe twitch is currently playing)
 

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image.thumb.png.b9dd61085f120689bf64768ba439cf5b.png

this is insane. 43% memory for that. TM has a LOT of stuff I don't know about. and I want to reduce it to normal stuff.
over time, doing nothing or browsing around, ram will creep up (takes about a day)


I just don't know how.
please help.

specs : 
4790k, stock
h80i
msi GD-65 Z97 motherboard
gtx 780 DCUII (asus)
4x 4gb HyperX Fury 1866Mhz
evga supernova G2 750W psu
some ssds and hdds

pls :( 

 

edit : see ? I just posted this, refreshed the page, and already creeped up a bit. nothing changed tho.
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Why do you have so many instances of Chrome running?

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Why do you have so many instances of Chrome running?

different tabs no ?

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3 minutes ago, HunterScott said:

Why do you have so many instances of Chrome running?

Chrome opens about 7 just for a single page.

edit:. ok just realized they not child processes.

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Son, what are you talking about? This is perfectly normal. I have 16GB or RAM as well, I get to around the same usage as well. Chrome is well known for poor resource management, this is actually not even that bad. Now if it's at 80% or more then you most likely have a Windows 10 memory leakage, but 43% is perfectly normal for how many applications you have open.

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Just now, Oberon.Smite said:

Son, what are you talking about? This is perfectly normal. I have 16GB or RAM as well, I get to around the same usage as well. Chrome is well known for poor resource management, this is actually not even that bad. Now if it's at 80% or more then you most likely have a Windows 10 memory leakage, but 43% is perfectly normal for how many applications you have open.

my tam creeps up non stop, after a day just left running i'll cap out my 16gb
it looks low because I just restarted.

also there's some crap around idk how to remove.
 

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I think there's also an instance of Chrome open for many extensions, but don't quote me on that. It also uses more RAM if you have more RAM available. Here's my XPS13 with 8GB of RAM and a basically fresh Windows install.

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It's the same as has always been. The more stuff you allow at startup the more resources will get used up and the more it will bog down your machine.

 

Do you really need to load all these things at startup just to save you a few milliseconds when (and if) you decide to run them in that session?

 

Do you really want something updating in the background hogging up your network bandwidth when you're trying to use the network for something else?

 

If you want to fix it then open all your ups and deselect the "start with windows" or "load at windows startup" option :D

 

And if you've finished with something then right click on the system tray icon and exit.

 

 

Also you can sort the list by mem usage. Watch to see if anything is climbing up the list to see if you have memory leak.

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I turned off everything but a few drivers in startup.
this is what I get
 

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Yeah my RAM is used up a lot too, hell my minecraft server eats 18GiB just idling. 

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Windows uses ram

Chrome uses (a lot) of ram

-Insert other applications here- use ram

 

Thats why you have it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Nothing there looks out of the ordinary

 

 

For comparison: My Dell XPS 15 with 8gb of ram

 

Right after startup. No apps open except what runs at startup

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And when good old chrome is launched with ~10 tabs, 5 extensions, a theme, and signed in to my google account and what not

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