High ram usage while idle on a windows 11 pc

Anonymous
2022-01-06T07:55:14+00:00

Just like the title goes, my laptop gets about 50~60 ram usage while idle, even though it has 16 gigs of ram. Tried checking with the task manager doesn't seem to spot anything going on. Also, I've tried fixing the registry, disabling startup applications, defragmenting drives, turning off Sysmain, as said on the Internet, but they all didn't change anything. Is there any way to fix this while not clean installing windows again?

My laptop is currently on Windows 11 build 22000,

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-21T07:26:20+00:00

    Same problem.

    Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2134]

    Clear start, - 90% memory usage from 16 RAM + 25 fixes swp

    Rammap show 5Gb free

    Taskmgr and resmon show usage 15 Gb

    Cannot upload screens \ fixed when edit

    rammap

    task manager

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-18T13:41:09+00:00

    Try again but actually pay attention. How is this eating up 16 gigs? What a terrible answer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-05T15:18:27+00:00

    Turn off hibernation/fast startup. For some reason, they kick in even on an SSD Boot system, resulting in the system not shutting down entirely but saving files for preloading on the next boot.

    Preloaded files/content don't show up in the task manager. But still, take up space, so they get accounted for in the total ram used even.

    Also, Superfetch (SysMain) will preload files to ram but now show up as if they are there.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-04T04:50:36+00:00

    Sorry that it didn't work for you. Replacing Windows Defender with Bitdefender solved all my performance and lagging issues, especially when running Photoshop and my Digital Audio Workstation. Good luck!

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-29T23:02:33+00:00

    1st of all i don't recommend turning off security features. 2nd: my problem was related to memory leaks not high usage by some process and seems like many of users here had same problems. I've moved to linux and only playing from time to time on windows. Totally disapointed of it. Give us more ads in system settings and keep requirements for OS higher and higher from version to version but make your product worse and more unstable. After 5 BSODs "out of memory" (99%usage of 32GB RAM on a idle desktop) i've gave up. Idk what is causing that. Windows performance tools also shows around 6-8GB AT MOST on idle assigned to processes running when BSOD happens. I have some idea that it can be related to core isolation but not 100% sure. Don't have time and nerves for that mess. I'm out of that thread. Good luck all of you.

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