[ Question ] RAM goes up even tho all process does not correspond to such amount showed;

[76561197971363576]

This issue have been bothering for 5 monthish and very recently I have discovered it might a visual bug because the amount of active process even when I'm using google browser or Steam should not increase that much memory usage and yet show abnormal quantity being consume.

So about a week ago I have been trying to figure how to decrease or refresh this issue if is just a visual bug because I'm not suffering of any perfomance loss. Is just the amount of GB going up over 3-3.44 gb when idleing.

There have been couple tricks I've discovered by accident that revert this excessive impact on Windows task manager. One of the tricks I have started using was to empty system restauration points and then RAM memory usage went down like magic but again the problem would go after a while.
And then I have found out about going through main system HD, accessing disk properties and going to check for disc errors and click to search automatically for errors and attempt to recover them but while in use this option can't run if Windows is busy so I receive the message to 'restart' or 'cancel'. While I cancelled somehow made RAM usage decrease under a circumstance the amounts of process are being used correspond to Windows task manager is showing. And somehow is fixed for the entire operation.

What are you opnion about this weird situation. Is it old symptom from Windows 7 Professional and if it is can you guide me to a solution?

[MancSoulja]

Have you checked if the missing RAM isn't being just reserved by Windows?

[_I_]

what cpu?

if using an amd apu or intel hd igpu, they use system ram for their vram and will not show as processes memory

[Illusion of Progress]

RAM use will increase and decrease depending on running tasks. It's normal to fluctuate, yes. If you want to dig into individual processes and disable some you don't think you need, it might make use lower or become slightly less variable, but it's a lot of work for little return (this was a more popular thing in the Windows XP era when the difference was bigger and RAM amount more constrained), and the behavior will still be there.

In Windows 7 Home (64-bit), my idle use was near 3 GB or over at the end of the system life. It was closer to 2 GB when the install was fresh 9 years ago. That was with 16 GB RAM.

In Windows 10 Home (64-bit), it's closer to 4 GB to 4.5 GB. This is with 64 GB RAM.

The above numbers are rough windows; I don't tend to hawk or remember my idle RAM use, but I know it's very normal for it to fluctuate a bit even at idle sometimes.

[76561197971363576]

Is an old Intel core (TM)2 quad core Q8300 and gpu is Nvidia GTX 750 ti.
The trick to go on main HD properties and click to scan for error disk and then cancel that procedure fix this visual glitch on task manager making my activity to act normal.

Diposting pertama kali oleh MancSoulja:

Have you checked if the missing RAM isn't being just reserved by Windows?

Is showing only 10 mb being reserved.

I just have logged out from Steam client and ram usage is at 2,29 GB quite good when used to stay at 3,11 GB to 3,33 GB.

Diposting pertama kali oleh Illusion of Progress:

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The above numbers are rough windows; I don't tend to hawk or remember my idle RAM use, but I know it's very normal for it to fluctuate a bit even at idle sometimes.

I'm not offended I mean is abnormal to expect that to idle with only my antvirus suite* monitoring* , RAM usage would stay above 3 gb / 8 gb. I have this setup since 2016 and memory usage didn't use to exceed that much while doing nothing.

I think my antivirus protect updates have screwed something over in the past months this year because before may memory usage would never go over 2,6 gb...Steam updates since novemeber 2019 were worse even now with those animated feature to profile page making heavier to work and Steam process consuming more than 600 mb to 1 GB to browse on screenshot and artwork sections. Or when opening multiple windows.

[Illusion of Progress]

By not hawking numbers, I just meant I couldn't be as exact at idle use throughout the years beyond the rough window I gave. I've had an abundance of RAM for a long time now, so I didn't tend to watch them as often.

Something like 3 GB+ RAM use idle in 2020 in a vanilla (non-tweaked) modern-ish version of Windows (7, 8, or 10; heck even Vista for that matter) doesn't sound too unusual to me though.

[Washell]

Empty RAM is like an empty swimming pool. Pointless. If you have less than what a process requires, a ton of it can be instantly released for use so there's really no need to babysit it.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Chrome is a memory hog
Period

Are you using Win7 or did you upgrade to Win10? Not exactly clear on that.
Its also possible a program or a driver has a small memory ♥♥♥♥

But for Win7 i always had a minimal amount of processes so idle usage was usually in the area of 2GB or less. For Win10, standard idle usage is around 2GB, but again that'll depend on whats running

RAM usage will depend on whats running in the foreground or background and as such the amount of running processes plays a part.

Make sure that when checking resources you have Show processes from all users enabled in the Task Manager otherwise you wont get the whole picture.

As long as you have 8GB or more i wouldnt worry about it
But it likely comes down to stuff like Chrome running in the background sucking up memory, so if the usage really bothers you then start closing processes that dont need to be running if you arent using them

Or in the case of Chrome, use something else like Firefox that doesnt require so many processes running in the foreground or background, Chrome has always been a memory hog.

[76561197971363576]

Steamwebhelper process are annoying even since this summer sale event with those heavy animated features to profile. So compared to google chrome browser, Steam is worst to consume memory over nothing.

[[☥] - CJ -]

eh
no

Steam usage in the manner you're talking about only happens depending on whats on the page at those specific situations.

Chrome sucks up memory regardless of whats on a page and even more so when something is on the page.