High RAM usage when idle/ a lot of Windows 10 processes running in the background

[[TGFS] bendr251]

Hi this is probably not the best place about asking this issue but I just wanted to give a try.

So recently I have noticed that when my system boots up to Windows with everything turned off on start up my memory is used to 30% (5GB) and higher even tho the computer just booted without Steam, Chrome and other things running in the background.

So I went to task manager and I have noticed that I have 100 Windows Processes.
It's not a big deal since I have a lot of RAM but it is kinda weird to be honest that Windows has this large amount of processes since I remember from my Windows 7 days that it only used like 1-2GBs of RAM with like 30 processes.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Check and see if it's doing Windows Updates in the background, as that could eat a lot of ram and may take a few reboots before it's done doing so.

[[TGFS] bendr251]

Nguyên văn bởi Bad 💀 Motha:

Check and see if it's doing Windows Updates in the background, as that could eat a lot of ram and may take a few reboots before it's done doing so.

I have already checked that and no I have the latest updates and the newest build.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Do a Shutdown rather then a Reboot every once in a while in order to flush the Win10 ram cache

[[TGFS] bendr251]

Nguyên văn bởi Bad 💀 Motha:

Do a Shutdown rather then a Reboot every once in a while in order to flush the Win10 ram cache

I always shut down the computer I almost never reboot.

[Pyroflamer]

Try downloading Razor Cortex and use their system optimizer, this worked for me.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

In order for us to see what's running, install Speccy from ccleaner.com and after that loads up, click File, Publish, copy to clipboard, then paste that link here.

Then we'll be able to see pc specs, os build, driver versions, running services and processes...

[Omega]

Hold SHIFT on your keyboard and while holding it shutdown the machine via the Start Menu. This will tell Windows not to do a Fast Boot, the next boot will be a bit slower but it will be a completely clean start. This will fix bugs which get carried over between sessions by Fast Boot.

There is a small chance that this might fix it.


5GB isn't unheard of for Windows. Windows can be very RAM heavy especially when you have a ton of stuff automatically starting after reboot.

[Snow]

Why doesn't anyone mention the only thing that matters here?
OP, it's the Superfetch. You can disable it in services, it will either be called Superfetch or SysMain. Although I recommend keeping it on because it pre-loads the data u frequently use in RAM so you don't have to go make a cup of tea just waiting until your Chrome opens.

[SeriousCCIE]

i didn't even know they included superfetch still.

his recollection of windows 7 would have been tainted by superfetch as well, and I'd expect it'd have been worse, but he says it was pretty good.

i myself am still on windows 7 and disabled that feature many moons ago (instead, I use a 3rd party program to do the same thing!! But at least I can limit the amount of ram dedicated to the caching process).

Anyway the superfetch might actually not be a problem that is supposed to be solved if it is doing what it is supposed to do. It would be good to positively identify the source of the RAM consumption and confirm that's the culprit, though.

[Omega]

Nguyên văn bởi Snow:

Why doesn't anyone mention the only thing that matters here?
OP, it's the Superfetch. You can disable it in services, it will either be called Superfetch or SysMain. Although I recommend keeping it on because it pre-loads the data u frequently use in RAM so you don't have to go make a cup of tea just waiting until your Chrome opens.

Disk cache is not counted in the total RAM usage.

Windows always tries to use nearly all unused RAM for disk caching, unused RAM = wasted RAM.


In the task manager you can see how much RAM is used for cache under "Memory composition" and "Cache".

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Superfetch has zero to do with ram usage.

And it should be off if you have an ssd anyways, the os installer would have that off by default if installed to an ssd.

How much total ram do you have?

[Malygos]

Does the usage keep going up after booting just at the home screen? If you recenetly updated very well could be memory leak i got it a few months back on another update and someone else posted the other day having the problem. Windows lets you roll back updates id give that a try

[Snow]

Nguyên văn bởi Omega:

Nguyên văn bởi Snow:

Why doesn't anyone mention the only thing that matters here?
OP, it's the Superfetch. You can disable it in services, it will either be called Superfetch or SysMain. Although I recommend keeping it on because it pre-loads the data u frequently use in RAM so you don't have to go make a cup of tea just waiting until your Chrome opens.

Disk cache is not counted in the total RAM usage.

Windows always tries to use nearly all unused RAM for disk caching, unused RAM = wasted RAM.


In the task manager you can see how much RAM is used for cache under "Memory composition" and "Cache".

I was sure it does count, my bad.

[SeriousCCIE]

He's got 16 GB of ram I think. Whatever is taking up 5GB of it is clearly evident in the task manager with a zillion different processes shortly after startup that add up to about that much consumed out of total system available memory.

There are a lot of phone-home/see-if-there-are-update applications now, compared to just a few years ago, windows 7 or not. It may be that many of these are triggered after a reboot and then quiet down after they all make their connection attempts.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I would just clean install Win10 64bit 1903. No way it should have that many processes even with all the driver services and background apps running.

Disable all the Win10 junk using app such as ShutUp10