Windows 10: Using really low ram, but the task manager's showing a much higher % usage.

Before i explain the following screenshot of my task manager, i would like to tell yall that i have,

-Very little knowledge on how all this ram stuff works

-lookin at system information6gb installed ram, 5.87gb total ram, available ram 1.42gb, total virtual ram 13.4gb, available virtual ram 6.75gb.

-Yes, i have Windows x64 version on my x64 system

-Yes,i have all my drivers up to date checked from windows update, dell update and supportassist app.


The 2 screenshots i sent, 1st one showing the memory values in % usage, 2nd one showing memory values in MB, contradict each other when comparing it to my system info. Lets take the highest ram process which is 'microsoft edge- we tried to rob youtubers', shows 13.1%. if you convert that to mb, 13.1% x 5.87 will be around 769mb, but shows 246mb in the 2nd screenshot. To be honest thats not whats bugging me hehe, what is, is that because of this unreasonable high ram %, i cant get to fully enjoy my ram, especially when i play a game. my laptop becomes really slow when i play a game like valorant and keep an edge tab open uses like 98% ram! I just dont get where all my other ram is going to. Is there a fix? or did i mistaken something understanding how the ram usage is being recorded. What i also did not understand is 'available physical memory' from my system information, is it the ram i have not yet used, the 25%? from the 75% usage in screenshot 1 or is that the ram i can only enjoy, which would make sense why i was getting weird calculations on the %usage and mb used.


Thanks alot for reading, i will be most appreciated to every piece of knowledge or fix/solutions out there!

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Task Manager RAM Usage

My computer is running 64 bit Windows 10 with 6 GB of RAM.

I have been monitoring my memory usage via Task Manager and occasionally download tasklist via the cmd line.

What has been bothering me is that my RAM usage at reboot starts at 34%, and left alone, increases to ~75-80% without running any programs.
(I do have start up programs including McAfee, Dropbox, Seagate console, gadgets, etc.)

When I analyze the tasklist download file via Excel, the total RAM memory usage is approximately 3.1 GB at 79%.
Doing the math, this means there is only 4 GB in use?

I have 2 questions:

1. Does Task Manager list all the RAM usage or is there some background usage that is not shown.?

2. Is there any other way to monitor RAM leakage?

 

Unknown Constant RAM Usage

Hi,

To explore more on RAM usage by processes and see in-depth I advise you to open the Resource monitor, please follow the below steps.

Step 1 :

Open Task Manager

Step 2:

Click on Performance

Step 3:

At the bottom click on Open Resource Monitor

Step 4:

Under Resource Monitor windows click on Memory

Step 5:

Click on Working Set to list the top process utilizing the more RAM and then evaluate RAM usage.

Regards

Shuaib

Independent Advisor

 

Task manager not showing complete memory usage?


This has a couple of angles on this topic:
All Physical memory being used but nothing showing in task manager - Microsoft Community

Note the comment about data loaded into RAM- not necessarily exe's or dlls.

Suggest this view:



The top file is an O&O disk image file I've just created and written to an external USB.
The second is part of creating OO DiskImage's bootable CD