Why does Windows 11 keep using more and more ram the longer it's on?

AthlonXP1800 said:
I guessed you never bothered watched the video about how RAMMap clear RAM cache.

He do not need to restart PC to clear RAM cache, he can use RAMMap tool download from Microsoft to clear RAM cache without need to restart PC. Impressive tool.
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Coulda restarted in the time it took to watch the video.
 
Why would you want to clear the cache? It's working as intended to improve performance. RAM that is not being used is just wasted.
 
I'm sitting here now since I posted 96GB committed despite nothing being open... Ok fine, I dunno what it's committed to? Windows doesn't tell you. In use 64.8GB, again nothing is open, Avalible 57.2GB... Paged Pool 3GB non paged pool 4.6GB and cached 51.6GB.

My PC is slow as crap.

I'm going to install Windows again and I'll find it doing the exact same thing.

It just slows down for no reason....

Windows sucks, sorry to the fans but it's so bad!
 
Task manager says 34.6GB being used despite all that. How the hell is that much being used with nothing open? I've gone through all the processes and I literally cannot shut a single thing down other than Firefox and that only removes a couple GB.
 
Mattus said:
Why would you want to clear the cache? It's working as intended to improve performance. RAM that is not being used is just wasted.
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This. If you aren't using your RAM what is the point of it? Caching data in unused RAM is a great way to improve performance of your apps and other services.
 
Use performance monitor to get a more detailed picture of what's going on, taskmanager will show you limited details.

And no, I'm not going guide you through how to use it or what to monitor as it would take forever and I've not used it in ages so you'd be better off using some of the online guides that are out there.
 
Grantelicious said:
Task manager says 34.6GB being used despite all that. How the hell is that much being used with nothing open? I've gone through all the processes and I literally cannot shut a single thing down other than Firefox and that only removes a couple GB.
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I use this, works a treat.

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Kelt said:
I use this, works a treat.

Wise Memory Optimizer - Free Up More Memory with One-Click

The best free RAM (memory) cleaning and optimization tool for Windows computers. It can help you free up memory in use, increase available memory, defrag memory, and empty standby memory to get your computer running smoothly again.
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Things like that are pointless. The operating system is intelligent enough to know that data cached in RAM can be redirected to the currently active task or application. By clearing the cache manually you are actually making your system slower not faster as the operating system has to pull data from the SSD / HDD which is much slower than getting it from a RAM based cache.
 
Malware or some kind of memory leak from a dodgy app.

Don't use any third party programs to interfere with or manage ram.
 
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Grantelicious said:
I'm sitting here now since I posted 96GB committed despite nothing being open... Ok fine, I dunno what it's committed to? Windows doesn't tell you.
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Tetras said:
As mentioned above, is it actually being "used" or is it just part of the cache?

If a program is gobbling it up then you can see that in task manager (expose the commit size column in the details tab, if you're not sure).
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Did you expose the commit size column as I suggested?
 
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