Solved RAM gets too high

[Joker326]

When I turn on my computer and log in, the RAM is only at about twenty-ish percent and everything is fine. But then after a while (even faster when I play downloaded games) the RAM is at like 70-90% and it's getting annoying. Does anyone know how to fix this? Please and thank you.

 

[Berton]

Get more RAM, from what you describe you'd be best served by getting the maximum your motherboard supports. But then you give no details about the computer in your System Specs so it's impossible to suggest something better. Also keep in mind that doing streaming downloads holds more data in RAM for instant use so the RAM will fill up. And Windows does like all the RAM it can get..

 

[pparks1]

Your ram should be in use. The question is whether it's available and whether you need more. Ram is faster than any hard drive. Therefore, I wasn't as much cached there as possible.

 

[Joker326]

Okay, well, there's 79 Background Processes and 28 Windows Processes. Could that be a possible cause? Also, what do you mean by "Streaming Downloads"?

 

[Berton]

Streaming downloads is a term used for watching movies and installing updates or programs from the Internet instead of from disc or a single downloaded file, probably applies to game playing as the connection to other players is going through other servers than only your ISPs.

 

[LMiller7]

Post a screenshot of Task manager - Performance tab showing the memory information.

 

[Joker326]

Here ---> Screenshot by Lightshot

 

[LMiller7]

Sorry, but that is not what I asked for. Select the tab that shows memory information, not CPU.

 

[David Bailey]

Here ---> Screenshot by Lightshot

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http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2598-screenshots-files-upload-post-eight-forums.html?ltr=S

 

[theveterans]

LMiller meant this:



Basically he might be looking for non-paged pool RAM usage which is directly related to outdated and poorly written drivers.

 

[Joker326]

Screenshot by Lightshot

 

[David Bailey]

Screenshot by Lightshot

The picture---

 

[Joker326]

Yeah.

 

[theveterans]

Paged pool might be caused by programs just having memory leak. Try downloading RAMMAP and post a screenshot of each of the tabs.

 

[Joker326]

This RAMMAP? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff700229.aspx

 

[theveterans]

Yep. Paged pool is unusually high

 

[caperjack]

you should have a look in event viewer, right click on the windows icon lower left corner. open event viewer , and in event viewer open windows logs ,then system log .see if it shows and errors

 

[Joker326]

 

[theveterans]

Clearly paged pool is unusually high.

In my tablet, I use only use 250 MB of paged pool RAM despite using 2.8 GB of 8 GB of RAM.

Use task manager and sort the processes by page pool value. Hope this will catch the culprit:

 

[Joker326]

How do you get into the Select Columns Pop Up?