RAM usage not showing on task manager/resource monitor

[paper palm]

hi all

im runnin windows 10

i have 16 gigs (conifrmed in task manager)

all of my processes do not sum to 8 gb, i think its ab 2gb

also games have been crashing for low memory recently so, somethings up

[indigo pine]

using only 57% of your RAM with those things open, sounds pretty normal

what does the memory section on the performance tab show

[indigo pine]

that looks really good, what application is currently telling you that you're low on RAM?

is your paging file perhaps just too tiny? We should investigate a bit

[paper palm]

games

[paper palm]

no idea what that is hah, ill hjave a look into it thanks

Also yeah 7gb being available is fine by me tbh. Though, i still dont think all the task manager processes sum to 9gb

[indigo pine]

oh it definitely does, it's impossible for it to be wrong

remember it only shows one decimal point so every row you have may have an extra .49 in it that you can't see and that rounding error over 200 rows may be significant also

[paper palm]

oh okay thank you

[warm grotto]

Using 36% and on Windows 11

I also have 16GB of ram

[warm grotto]

I think your RAM usage is a bit high for what it should be

Check what background apps are running in system tray

[indigo pine]

percent means nothing lol

I'm using 46% but that also is meaningless if you don't know how much I have lol... 32 GB by the way

[warm grotto]

there you go

I precised I have 16GB of RAM like him

• if you see his discord and firefox is using far less RAM than mine

[indigo pine]

so?

[warm grotto]

So he definitely has some sort of process eating his RAM

[indigo pine]

what? Firefox using less ram means something is eating ram?

what are you smoking lol

[warm grotto]

Read again

[indigo pine]

"firefox is using less ram than mine, so something is eating his ram"
the above sentence makes no sense

[warm grotto]

His system is using 9GB of ram yet firefox and discord on his are only using 1GB

[indigo pine]

so? that doesn't indicate a problem, and it certainly doesn't indicate something is "eating" his ram

[warm grotto]

Whilst he is on Windows 10 which doesnt take more than 3GB of ram without background apps running

So there are some other processes taking up his RAM

He should investigate into that

[warm grotto]

Context

[indigo pine]

there's no context where this is indicative of anything

other than his firefox needs less ram right now. maybe he has fewer tabs open, fewer extensions, or a lower-content website open.

[warm grotto]

Still my apps use much more than his and I have a far more heavy operating system yet I'm using 4.5GB less

[indigo pine]

you don't even know what applications he has open

or even how many

or anything at all

you're making baseless unfounded assumptions

[hushed girder]

I find the "Users" page to display a more accurate representation of exactly how much of your ram is in active use by apps and services. Of course it dosent display what is using the ram tho, Just how much of it is being used.

[hushed girder]

Are you also 100% sure that its not Vram memory instead thats running out? Try turning down textures or quality features.

[paper palm]

all of the usage is on me

[paper palm]

yeah in game settings are low

[hushed girder]

Hm. perhaps you have a bad stick of memory? Have you tried window's memory diagnostic software and or memtest86 by any chance?

[paper palm]

no i havent - thanks for the advice,w will do

[indigo pine]

Also keep in mind there's no right or wrong amount of RAM to be used either, it depends on what you want your system to do and what programs you want to run. My RAM usage will not be the same as someone else's unless we both clean-start with nothing else and do actual scientific controlled comparisons of the same situation. For example I have 4 copies of OneDrive syncing, skype, two copies of Teams, and way more. Phone Link itself is using 442 MB.

You mentioned you have received messages tell you that you're running out of memory, what program told you that?

[paper palm]

games

like valorant/overwatch

[warm grotto]

Memory or video memory

[paper palm]

i think the messages were system messages, not fromt he games

[paper palm]

memory prety sure

not certain