Memory at 95%+ load constantly

[AidanJLowe]

Hey all,

So it seems there is a memory leak or a bad stick as it's always running high? Image attached, any advice is appreciated.

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[Scott]

Remove norton. Should do away with most of your issues. We would never recommend any 3rd party AV as there are so many issues with them.

Looks like Radeon is pooling a fair chunk as well without using it. I wouldn't be overly concerned though. A commit of memory isn't the same as it being utilised.

 

[ubuysa]

As above, but 985% RAM is is not necessarily a problem. It's always as mistake to look at high RAM usage and panic. You want your RAM used as much as possible - you paid for it so you want it to be used!

You imagine (wrongly) that 95% RAM use is somehow slowing you down - it's not. Windows is truly excellent at managing RAM and you have 5% RAM spare (the Standby RAM). Of itself that looks perfect.

What you want to know is "when do I not have enough RAM"? The easiest way to tell is to open the Task Manager, click on the Performance menu item, and then click on the Memory icon. Post a screenshot of that display and I'll explain what you're looking at and how to tell from those numbers if you don't have enough RAM.

 

[SpyderTracks]

In addition to @ubuysa post like @Scott is saying, there’s a huge difference between Allocated RAM, and RAM actually in use. Some badly coded programs and games will allocate any available RAM even though there’s no way it’s going to actually use it.

 

[TonyCarter]

Which of those apps show are using lots of RAM, and we're concerned about, as (if it's sorted by Commit) then the largest looks to be only using 300MB or so?

That's about as much as iCUE uses on mine (315MB), and the same as MsMpEng.exe uses.

 

[AidanJLowe]

Which of those apps show are using lots of RAM, as (if it's sorted by Commit) then the largest looks to be only using 300MB or so?

That's about as much as iCUE uses on mine (315MB).

Hi,

Yes I made sure I sorted it by highest committed at the top and descending accordingly.

Thank you all for your replys.

[Update] So a reboot brought it all the way down. It does seem to lag when at 95%+, for example I could be watching a film on one monitor and bring open another tab in chrome and it will stutter visually and audibly the video and occasionally the cursor will freeze in its place.

 

[Scott]

My money is on Norton. It's a memory leak in itself. Just get rid of that for starters and see where you land. If it still happens then just get to the point where it's looking off again and post the same screenshot.

 

[SpyderTracks]

My money is on Norton. It's a memory leak in itself. Just get rid of that for starters and see where you land. If it still happens then just get to the point where it's looking off again and post the same screenshot.

And don't use chrome, there is a reason it's considered hot garbage these days!

 

[ubuysa]

You're still all worrying unnecessarily. The amount of RAM in use cannot tell you whether you don't have enough RAM, nor whether you have a memory problem. You can only tell both of those by monitoring the committed RAM, if it keeps increasing you may have a memory leak, and as long as committed RAM is less than installed RAM you definitely are not short of RAM.

The Resource Monitor is not the best tool to use for this, the Task Manager display I asked for is.