Windows 10: Win10 high RAM Usage

*Edit* Making my own thread as requested.

 

@leshoyadut

Welcome to the forum.

Please create your own thread for your problem. Trying to help multiple individuals in the same thread is confusing for everyone.

Edit: Your symptoms are similar but the cause may be entirely different.

 

Entirely fair. Sorry for clogging up the thread. *Smile

 

You can try this Windows 10 high memory usage (unknown reason) - Super User
Driver memory leak maybe the problem *Smile

 

No, what I said above is 100% true. Absolutely any virtual-memory-based OS will easily and immediately fill 16GB of RAM (16GB? That's just laughable by modern standards). If it won't fill it with active application working sets, then it will fill it with cashed and/or prefetched data. If some OS does not do it, it is back to the drawing board for the designers/implementers of that OS.

The rest simply boils down to how each OS calculates the "working set" of a process and how aggressively the OS manages the RAM pages that belong to that working set. There's no standard for that and any changes will easily result in different values being reported. This is most likely what the OP observes.

 

Well, have it your way and just ignore the fact that everybody who has got a task manager, some other program that reads out current ram usage or knows the right commands can easily show you at any given moment that this is not the case.

 

That sounds like "Just ignore the fact that everyone with a straightedge can easily prove that Earth is flat".

To those who actually understand the relationship between RAM and virtual memory in a modern OS, I'd like to point out that the OP was referring to Chrome's private working set size. Chrome is not a device driver, it is a user-level application, which has no access to direct RAM management. Chrome could not produce "RAM leak" even if it wanted to do so deliberately.

 

I don't know if you have 'Killer Network Manager' installed or not, but if you do, then update it to the latest version here: Killer Networking - Driver Downloads

It dropped my memory usage in Windows 10 from 90%+ to 30%:

 

Just FYI, you can post images by clicking the "Insert Image" button at the top of the reply box. No need to upload them to a third party site first.

See:

 

That's neat, but Gyazo uploads anything I screenshot or capture automatically, so it's actually easier for me to use Gyazo than it is to upload images to the forum.

 

Please follow the youtube tutorial for fast fix. Leave comments if facing any problem.
Fast Fix for 100% RAM Usage Windows 10/8/7/XP - YouTube