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Discus and support Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; When I use Task Manager to see how much memory is being used, it says 76% memory. I have 8GB of ram. However when I add up all the memory being used by... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by desbest, Oct 6, 2020.

  1. desbest Win User

    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being...


    When I use Task Manager to see how much memory is being used, it says 76% memory. I have 8GB of ram. However when I add up all the memory being used by all the different processes, it doesn't add up to 8GB.


    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... e38e532e-7780-4cce-921f-fb17472db01b?upload=true.gif

    As seen in the gif above, the memory usage shown by each program in Task Manager does not add up to 6GB of the memory I have out of 8GB. If around 75% of memory is used, then the memory usage of all the processes, should add up to 6GB, right?


    What is going on and how do I fix it?

    :)
     
    desbest, Oct 6, 2020
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  2. Unexplained High Memory Usage

    The biggest memory user is not shown on this task manager screen. Please order the application list by memory usage.

    On this screen click to "Memory".
     
    Szőgyényi Gábor, Oct 6, 2020
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  3. mdhillyer Win User
    Task manager not showing complete memory usage?


    Hi, I have 4GB of DDR3 ram on my laptop. When I go into the task manager to check how much ram is being used, it says only 795MB and yet it also says that 94% is being used.

    This is always the case, of course with varying numbers. The memory usage shown does not coordinate with the percentage, but the computer performance certainly correlates with the percentage.

    When I check in cpu-z, it does confirm that the 4GB are all installed. What is going on here?

    Thanks in advance for any advice.

    Updated with pics:

    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... [​IMG]

    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... [​IMG]

    Update #2:
    Ah, I missed the performance tab which does indeed show all of the correct total amount of ram being used. Now how do I find all of the individual processes and services using those resources?

    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... [​IMG]
     
    mdhillyer, Oct 6, 2020
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  4. Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being...

    Unexplained High Memory Usage

    Maybe the percent calculation of the task manager has problem. At first, set the memory usages from values to percentage. In my example this is a hungarian Windows, I hope this is at the same place in english version of windows 10:


    Why does my memory usage have high percentage in task manager but the memory shown being... b2ad2263-5384-4c50-9d61-c4ce49647cc2.jpg


    What shows your task manager if set the memory usage to percentage?

    If the percent values seems correct, we need the full list of your running applications.
     
    Szőgyényi Gábor, Oct 6, 2020
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