[HELP] Ghost Memory Usage

[VioletCrayolas]

I have 8 GB of memory in my system. At start up, it says that almost half of my memory is being used... I look at my processes and what I'm using doesn't add up to my memory usage at all. What is the problem? This makes me want to rip my eyeballs out of their sockets and eat them.

http://i.imgur.com/5ed9G2t.png
http://i.imgur.com/63dGZHZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/vAKX9px.png
http://i.imgur.com/MZkK4mH.png

 

[Elixer]

What do you have running at startup?

 

[corkyg]

Most of it is in the Page Pool - that is often due to temporary Internet stuff. Do you do a lot of browsing with multi tabs open?

 

[VioletCrayolas]

Yes, but it says most of my ram's being used while it also says I'm using like 700 MB in the users tab.

 

[corkyg]

Try closing all tabs except the one you are actually using and see what it says.

 

[VioletCrayolas]

Doesn't change. With nothing running I have around 40% of 8gb of ram being used but I'm using 700

 

[dave_the_nerd]

That looks fairly normal. Windows does all sorts of cacheing and preloading of stuff into RAM. It's "used" but it's low-priority - if you open a program or two that stuff will get flushed out to make room.

And, honestly, you want it to do this, since it helps performance and is otherwise using RAM that would be sitting idle.

I wouldn't worry about this unless you're actually getting out-of-memory errors.

 

[Elixer]

Yeah, looking at

seems normal.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Also, keep in mind Chrome (prolly IE and FF at this point) keep tabs open in-memory even after closing them by default, gotta turn that off in chrome (or manully knock 'em off in taskman). Having said all this, don't sweat 'missing' memory, windows is using it for stuff and memory leaks (enough to matter) are fairly uncommon nowadays in 'normal usage' apps. Just restart once a week or something and don't worry about it.