Windows 10: Why does the Windows 11 task manager not show the correct memory usage?

The question was already asked a bit differently in another thread, but the answer was not helpful.https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/task-manager-performance-memory-usage-higher-than/ffde0f28-e5f9-48a7-bd45-b36e7925c534Why does the task manager not show the real usage of RAM of the processes? If you add up everything that is listed in task manager you get less than 50% of main memory usage that is reported on the other tab of the task manager!This is very unsatisfying, because it means you cannot determine what is actually causing the high memory usage.It doesn't seem to be

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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.

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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?

 

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

 

Task manager not showing complete memory usage?


Thanks a lot. Both that program and the thread seem to be just what I'm looking for.

Edit: So is it normal for windows 10 to run with such high memory usage even when only a few programs are running? It seems that I max out my ram too easily and this definitely negatively affects performance.

I ran RamMap and these are the results:




Is it normal for mapped file to take up nearly double of what is used by private processes?