Coulda restarted in the time it took to watch the video.
Why does Windows 11 keep using more and more ram the longer it's on?
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They do not work.
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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!
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!
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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.
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.
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.
I use this, works a treat.
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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.I use this, works a treat.
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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.www.wisecleaner.com
Did you expose the commit size column as I suggested?
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It doesn't work anyways, it shows ram being freed and then it comes right back again seconds later.
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Private process is 3GB in active 27GB says unused :S Makes no sense. Page tale is 16.6GB.
None of this means anything.
Why does my PC slow down over time and I have to reset it? There is nothing installed on it but Steam and I've installed Windows many times and it does the same thing.
I can only assume everyone shuts their PC down, but I do not want to shut it down, I like it being on! Again I've had a Mac for years and never turned it off, it never slows down. In fact my phone has been on since I got it in 2020 and it hasn't slowed down, I haven't even updated it because I didn't like the changes in a newer version.
None of this means anything.
Why does my PC slow down over time and I have to reset it? There is nothing installed on it but Steam and I've installed Windows many times and it does the same thing.
I can only assume everyone shuts their PC down, but I do not want to shut it down, I like it being on! Again I've had a Mac for years and never turned it off, it never slows down. In fact my phone has been on since I got it in 2020 and it hasn't slowed down, I haven't even updated it because I didn't like the changes in a newer version.
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Instead of posting snippets of information, if you actually want help why don't you post screenshots of the output of things people have suggested you to use to troubleshoot this.
Also, you probably want to fix your installation so that it isn't on a drive that isn't big enough to be able to run Windows Update.
Also, you probably want to fix your installation so that it isn't on a drive that isn't big enough to be able to run Windows Update.
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Hmmm something seemed not right. Mine did not came back again seconds later.
Your private process is 3GB???
Something not right.Your page table is 16.6GB? That is far too much, probably used RAM due to very small SSD size.
What is your SSD brand and model?
Please take screenshots of your Task Manager/Performance/Memory tab and RAMMap with Snipping Tool and post here.
Here is my screenshot of my Task Manager/Performance/Memory tab showed I used 48.7GB RAM and 40.5GB cached.
Here is my RAMMap screenshot showed my private process is 32GB in active, 27GB free RAM unused that matched your but my page table is only just 752MB active.
Why does my page table take up so much memory?
My 64-bit Windows 7 PC is very sluggish. I noticed in Task Manager that my memory usage is near 100% - however the usage reported for each process does not add up to the total 6GB (Firefox shows ab...
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It seemed possible that your massive 16.6GB page table is likely caused your PC to slowed down.
Maybe you installed bloated OEM drivers that ate up huge amount of page table?
Try download driveridentifier to find new drivers for your hardware with matched hardware IDs and download latest OEM drivers with smallest size to avoid download bloated OEM drivers.
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Seems like a pretty obvious place to start...
You could even just use a larger drive or partition just to test the idea?
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Disagree - 250gb drive is fine for Windows 10 or 11. If you've got 128Gb ram then you shouldn't need a huge page file.
Op needs to post some screenshots of his process list etc, as something is not adding up.