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Memory usage way too high

Epiclol86
By Epiclol86
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So I'm running windows 10 and I have 16gb of ddr4 memory installed and somehow at idle i'm using almost 9gb of it. Nothing is running apart from what would normally run like steam in the background but that alone can't be the problem here can't it? I've checked what was running in task manager and can't seem to find what's using so much and i'm not the type to install a thousand programs running in the background... You would think that it would be malware but my cpu usage is like 1% at idle so I don't think that's the problem here... 

 

What do you think is causing this?

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Not sure, Could you post a screen shot of task manager sorted by memory usage?

Quote or tag me @Lemtea so I can see your reply. 

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Could be a memory leak. Just restart your machine and see if it happens again.

Make sure to quote or tag people, so they get notified.

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