memory usage from
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mantadog
Superhero Level Poster
Task manager has my CPU stuck at 100% utilisation at all times, unless you are finding performance issues or something else has tweaked your suspicions i'd guess its fine.
You can download another piece of software to see what it reports, something like "speccy" would work.
You can download another piece of software to see what it reports, something like "speccy" would work.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
I don't understand these numbers....
60% of 32GB is 19.2GB
6000MB (6GB) is only 18.75% used
and where does 10000MB (10GB) come from??
In any case you really can't tell very much about memory usage from looking at the % used number in Windows. As you might expect memory management in Windows (indeed in any OS) is a very complex operation, but to put thing simply Windows tries to use as much memory as you have installed. One way it does this is by 'committing' memory to a process (and showing that memory as being used) even though the process hasn't referenced any of that memory yet. The more RAM you have installed the bigger the commit values will be. What this means is that if you see Windows using, say, 60% of your RAM all of that RAM is not actually being referenced by either Windows or processes, much of it is simply in a pre-allocated (commit) pool ready to be used when required.
That said, there is an overhead in Windows in managing memory (what this means is that Windows uses CPU cycles running the code to manage memory) and the more memory that is allocated the longer it takes to manage (and the more CPU cycles Windows uses doing that). Thus there are limits on how much memory Windows will commit and you might well find on modern system with a lot of installed RAM (and 32GB is a huge amount of RAM) that Windows simply does not use all of your RAM. That doesn't mean it's faulty or missing it just means that for the current workload Windows doesn't need it.
Unless you run some very serious memory intensive tasks (editing high resolution video for example) I very much doubt that you will ever come close to using that 32GB, so you're always going to see considerably less than 100% memory usage.
BTW. You'll never see 100% memory usage, when memory usage begins to approach 100% Windows memory management starts managing memory very aggressively to keep the system running, but the details of that are for another time.
I don't understand these numbers....
60% of 32GB is 19.2GB
6000MB (6GB) is only 18.75% used
and where does 10000MB (10GB) come from??
In any case you really can't tell very much about memory usage from looking at the % used number in Windows. As you might expect memory management in Windows (indeed in any OS) is a very complex operation, but to put thing simply Windows tries to use as much memory as you have installed. One way it does this is by 'committing' memory to a process (and showing that memory as being used) even though the process hasn't referenced any of that memory yet. The more RAM you have installed the bigger the commit values will be. What this means is that if you see Windows using, say, 60% of your RAM all of that RAM is not actually being referenced by either Windows or processes, much of it is simply in a pre-allocated (commit) pool ready to be used when required.
That said, there is an overhead in Windows in managing memory (what this means is that Windows uses CPU cycles running the code to manage memory) and the more memory that is allocated the longer it takes to manage (and the more CPU cycles Windows uses doing that). Thus there are limits on how much memory Windows will commit and you might well find on modern system with a lot of installed RAM (and 32GB is a huge amount of RAM) that Windows simply does not use all of your RAM. That doesn't mean it's faulty or missing it just means that for the current workload Windows doesn't need it.
Unless you run some very serious memory intensive tasks (editing high resolution video for example) I very much doubt that you will ever come close to using that 32GB, so you're always going to see considerably less than 100% memory usage.
BTW. You'll never see 100% memory usage, when memory usage begins to approach 100% Windows memory management starts managing memory very aggressively to keep the system running, but the details of that are for another time.
I believe what the OP is saying is that his task manager is showing 60% of 10GB memory utilised, hence 6GB (which is 60% of 10GB).
Now I admit I don't remember how Windows 8.x shows memory usage in task manager but in Windows 10, it gives quite a bit of detail:
I would do as ubuyusa says and get hold of piriform speccy and see what that says first.
ubuysa
The BSOD Doctor
Ah, so he thinks there's only 10GB of installed RAM? A quick boot into the BIOS setup would confirm how much RAM is installed...
I think it's more about whats being misreported where, I think he knows theres 32GB (31.9 of which claims to be useable - people don't normally state it like that unless reading it off the screen), but for some reason Task Manager seems to think hes using 6GB which it claims is 60%
I think a screen shot may help clear up what is at least being shown.