Windows 10: How do I configure W10 X64 to utilize all of my RAM

Hello All;
I spent the extra bucks and upgraded my ram to 24gb with the hope of increasing performance. I followed all of Dell's rules for population of the slots, etc.
Now, when doing some VERY heavy processing, I notice that only a portion of the ram ~30% is being utilized. What is the proper way to get my system to utilize it?



Is some of this application-driven?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
All the best.
Steve

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Windows 10 Store: "This app will not work on your device."

Has this issue been resolved yet as I am having the exact same problem.

I'm running W10 AU i74970K, 16gb RAM, GTX970 and even on the Recore page it says that it will not run

on my device and shows X crosses next to X64 architecture, system RAm and Video RAM.

Seriously how pathetic is the Windows Store. If Windows itself tells me that I have these components

then how does the store app get it wrong when it is directly communicating with the OS.

 

Windows Media Player

Hi SM...Thanks for replying to my problem. I will answer your questions by number per your request below.

1. I have W10 x64 desktop home edition.

2. My RAM is 4.0 GB.

3. I upgraded to W10 and transferred everything from my W7.

4. My current version is WMP 12.0.

My WMP worked perfect in my XP, then my W7, then my current W10 until the Anniversary update a few months ago. Now it will not play at all. When I run the troubleshooter it says my WMP library is "corrupt".

Thanks, Ken Y

 

The system will only use what it needs plus some for prefetch. You really can't force it to use more. The performance increase gained by adding RAM, it to have it available when needed rather than using paging which is slow. Most systems will never need 24GB of RAM.

 

Run a few Virtual machines at the same time(even use one as a server), do some heavy video editing, maybe do some 3D CAD(Computer-aided Design) and 3D printing, or if you area heavy Office user( specially Access & Point). Or play resource heavy games, multi-tasking.

The norm these days, and sweet spot for RAM is 8GB, unless you plan on doing any of the above, all you have is overkill and you're at the point of "diminishing returns".

12-16GB is more than enough for most games, but for the normal every day user, 8GB is enough.
I have 16GB, because I need enough for my VM's and still have some left over for my host).

 

How is yur 24gb of ram configured i.e ram sizes to make 24gb

 

Thanks, Cliff;
I am running CAM on this machine, which routinely slams my Twin processors, and is extremely math-intensive. I do this for a living, so the overkill seemed worth it, but maybe not....

 

I have tried to use all my RAM on Win10, by opening 5 browsers at the same time, with each 20 tabs open, 2 VM's, Skype on, MediaMonkey playing music, and did some graphics in GIMP(did run a bit slower when rendering a globe), but it used only about 8-9GB from 16*Eek

The advantage though is you have more memory addresses in more RAM to make it harder for malware to get into the system or running programs, for added security, This is called Memory Protection:

Memory protection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Plus ASLR:

Address space layout randomization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Address space layout randomization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So basically the extra RAM is not wasted. It's just not needed for the software, but for software(and system) protection.

 

A screenshot of Task Manager - Performance tab showing memory information would be useful. Memory usage in any modern OS is far too complex to be adequately described with a single number. The number shown in the screenshot in post #1 does not show all memory usage. Most likely the total usage is considerably higher.

Within reasonable limits adding RAM will always improve performance. But there will always be a point of diminishing returns after which there will be little gain. That point is determined primarily by the workload. But understand there are different kinds of workload. A process that is doing "VERY heavy processing" will not necessarily benefit from more memory. There is no meaningful relationship between memory usage and CPU usage. A process may saturate as many CPU cores as you have yet require only limited RAM. Or a process may use large amounts of RAM but have relatively low CPU usage.

When upgrading a computer to improve performance it is important to first determine the bottleneck, the system component that is holding back performance. That might be the CPU, memory, disk subsystem, network, video system, etc. Then upgrade that component. Often the upgrade is to whatever is most convenient or cheapest, and very often that is RAM. But if memory wasn't the problem you have wasted your money.

@Cliff S
Segmentation is not used in 32 or 64 bit Windows. They use pages which are quite different.

The address space used with ASLR is the process private virtual address space which in 64 bit Windows 10 is 128 TB. This is the only address space applications know or care about. This is totally independent of how much RAM you have.

 

@lmiller;
My bottleneck is obvious now, with the twin processors. My system was the hottest thing around 7 years ago, but not today......
They are slammed at 100% every time I run a toolpath calculation. Time for a new system.
Your observations are much appreciated. Thank you!
Steve