Windows 10: Memory Usage High but I'm Not Sure Why.

Well my AV is pretty much insignificant in terms of memory usage, it using currently around 12 MB, not much, only when it scans my system it uses my disk a lot, more than the rest of the programs but the AV doesn't take much memory at all.

 

Ok mate I asked because my Kaspersky does use a fair bit as do some of the other big brands - now I still think a try with the link I sent would be helpful in seeing just what you have "onboard".

 

This is the only image i can get haha, but there you go, not sure what you would want from it.

 

Think I would ditch the Chrome browser and see if that changes things for ya!

 

Yes mate well at least it gives you an idea of how much stuff you have on the drive and you just dig into it to find what is using a great deal of space and I am assuming also the RAM*Wink If you look at the top of that listing there is stuff that is using a quite a large amount of disk space and I would be digging around to see what is using RAM so much.

 

It's taking very negligible amount, compared to what is really happening.

 

This is after 30 mins of few tabs open.

 

How many addins or extension do you have running in Chrome?

 

Only 2, AdBlock and Google Docs extension.

 

That's almost none. I have a default chrome Chrome and it was using about the same as some of your sessions. Started Firefox, it had much higher usage (???) and started Edge, it used the least.

By any chance, did you customize your page file. While I can't quote at a technical bits and bytes level I know there is some relation so I thought I would ask.

 

Hmm I am like you Ken not that well versed in that stuff but this might be of help Virtual Memory Paging File - Change it comes from the main tutorial
Optimize Performance of Windows 10 which is similar to the 7 one and i use it all the time for setting up installs or friends / relatives machines.

It might not be of any use but I thought worth looking at.
John*Smile

 

Just ran that RamMap program and that is the result *Sad

 

Did you change / customize page file.

From your last screen shot the memory is obviously being consumed in Mapped File. When i googled I got the term memory-mapped files.

I know this process will be tedious but if you want to get to bottom could I suggest that you do a clean boot and run RamMap again.

Check the values.

Then start you apps, one by one, and do something you would normally do in this app and then check RamMap numbers again. My thinking is you will then see where all these mappings are coming from. My thinking could be flawed. You may also want to see, or someone following this thread may know of a utility that exposes what is using Mapped Files.

This article is from MSDN. You may want to have a peek.
Managing Memory-Mapped Files

 

Thank you for the suggestion man. I'll try this and i will write again.