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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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-28T23:43:28+00:00

    Nope., a memory leak would grow the memory used.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T06:13:07+00:00

    Good morning, I've just started a new job as Internal IT Support Technician. I have more than 20 years experience and have worked on Windows 3.1, Windows 95 & Windows 98, windows 2000 / NT4, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, Windows 10, windows 11, so i have travelled the journey with Microsoft and the resources required on a high End PC (Core i5 11th Gen) to run basic programs on windows 11 is beyond me, to say the least, i am in the process of troubleshooting a possible memory leak/resources problem on a brand new machine, and will post an update as soon as i am confident that 'at idle' this Windows 11 machine remains reliable, stable & ready to use

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-23T11:17:31+00:00

    30g out of 32g is defintely NOT normal usage even for win11 with third-party software. This is some kind of a malfunction. But you need to narrow down possible problems.

    1. Stop using task manager to analyze such problems.
    2. Take procexp and rammap from sysinternals and you will get the whole picture
    3. Analyze every process you think is using too much and when you finish you can ask a more appropriate question "Why process <NAME> uses so much ram"

    3.1 If you havent found culprit it probably means that some process leaks and that is more difficult problem to solve. You'll have to use safe mode and enabling everything one by one to find the process which uses too much ram.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-12T19:25:08+00:00

    Yes same problem

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