Windows 10: Windows 10 High Memory Usage/Task Manage Inaccurate

So I have noticed games closing because of too much memory usage. So I opened up task manager to take a look.


With just Microsoft Edge open it says 40- 43% memory usage.


Now when I actually take a rough estimate of how much memory is being used by adding up all the values in task manager, it's a little over 1 gig.


So it seems that Windows 10 is using a lot of memory and task manger is either inaccurate or missing some of the programs using memory.

:)

 

Windows 10 memory usage for idle too high


Hi, my guess would be a memory leak - driver - I'm no expert here. Clearly your RAM use is not allocated to obvious processes and is excessive- that said, there's plenty loaded using RAM not shown in the simple list provided by the task manager.

See:
Windows 10 high memory usage (unknown reason) - Super User
This is a confusing post at first, but shows ways to get info:
Memory usage being up at 80 -100% - Windows 10 Forums

 

Task Manager inaccurate?

Hi
I'm currently troubleshooting a Win10 laptop with an extremely slow startup and using Task Manger to see what's using the resources.
Now according to Task Manager/Processes the disk is running at 99% but in the list there's less than 3Mb in use!
So how is it giving me useful results, is it simply inaccurate or am I misunderstanding it's function?

 

Task Manager inaccurate?

Th disk usage in Processes is a bit misleading. It's the Mb/s per time interval, which is default 1 second. It's not cumulative. Process Monitor would be a better choice, highlighting CPU and DISK so you can see them both at the same time.

Process Monitor is at the bottom of the Performance tab.