Windows 10: Windows 11 standby list and memory compression

Win 11I9 - 12900KF @5.0Ghz32 GB DDR5 @5200MhzRTX 3080Original thread:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-standby-list-and-memory-compression/4cc5956b-a8d2-42a3-8d4e-9e280bbc7699per the steps in the original thread on the last reply,"As a temporary measure, disable your system paging file, restart, then return to the options and set it back to "automatic paging file" and restart once more. Several users have found this fixes this from occurring."My computer is relatively new, 1 year almost, I never adjusted my page file the one thing I forgot to do. I disabled and

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Windows 11 standby list and memory compression

I have an issue with Windows 11 Pro (and Windows 10 before this) but I'll focus on 11 as this is even more frustrating as RAMMAP doesn't work on Windows 11.

I have 32G RAM, which is great. However my standby RAM usage is increaseing all of the time, on my older machine it seems a large part of this came from Outlook caching my entire pst files (I have several).

Anyway, the point. When this happens it consumes the rest of my RAM, slowly but surely.

Then when the RAM becomes full, suddenly memory compression kicks in and consumes processor.

Then (not entirely sure this is completely related but its definatley corelated) the entire system starts to slow down.

So the question now. Why would I require memory compression when I have 16G free RAM? I feel like the standby list should be limited to the point where memory compression is not necessary. However I have zero visibility of this and zero ability to control it.

I have a high end machine, i7-11800H with separate GPU. Turning this on fresh makes me feel like I havea high end machine. Running it for 1 day makes me feel like I'm wasitng my money on any machine running Windows. This sounds like a gripe but I have never been closer to switching to MAC as I am now. Please help.

 

question on standby memory

It is all in order
Standby memory is ram held in reserve by Windows - for use by the system if needed. - hardware etc.
If processes require more ram than is shown as free, then the standby memory is released by the systme as necessary

Here you can see more detail
Releasing Standby memory

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and from Microsoft

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With regard to your split second lags, when do these occur - browsing, gaming, etc. More information is required please.

 

Releasing Standby memory

This is the first I have heard of any issues with Standby list memory causing issues outside of games.
I know there were a lot of reports around 1809 of games having issues where the standby list didn't release memory and games would stutter. There are a few programs that can clear up this issue. I have used both and they do work but I only used it for games, never noticed any issues in windows applications.
ISLC (Intelligent standby list cleaner) by Wagnarsoft and Processlasso by Bitsum can clear the standby list automatically.