Memory in Task Manager... Not Quite Right

decmatt · 12 Jun 2018 at 23:28

Hi

The memory in Task Manager seems a bit strange, and showing double what I am using.

I have G.Skill 16Gb RAM, however I am always over 50% used without any main apps open. Its causing an issue playing some games which check Memory Utilisation.

Task Manager Apps
https://imgur.com/a/cfTP56h

Task Manager Memory
https://imgur.com/a/6zB5iMP

Cheers

Rroff · 13 Jun 2018 at 00:00

Would be useful to see the performance tab for memory with the break down of usage and also check the resource monitor memory section to see if a lot is allocated to hardware reserve, etc.

There are also known memory leak problems with the Killer NIC driver and some of the recent updates to Windows 10 so that is worth checking as well.

LuckyBenski · 13 Jun 2018 at 00:47

I find Windows 10 eats ~40-45% memory just sitting at desktop (on an 8GB system), and as soon as chrome is open that takes me to 50-55%. Then chrome will use 1.5-2GB when I'm working (20-30 tabs) and sit at 80%. No matter what else I do, windows seems to manage RAM usage to 80%. It's all weird and non transparent, not like Linux at all

Rroff · 13 Jun 2018 at 00:54

Windows especially 10 does a lot of caching - it is traceable but a little non-intuitive. A lot of that memory isn't "used" as such it is still available to be freed up for other uses if required.