Question Is this RAM consumption normal?

[wajed]

I have lots of tabs on Chrome (900 tab currently), and it is taking so much RAM, obviously. But even when I close Chrome I have paging file size of around 28GB.. I think this is too much? I feel like I can better utilize my RAM and SSD.. how do I pinpoint the source of this usage? i.e maybe after closing Chrome 28GB usage means driver leaks and such.

Task Manager shows RAM usage only for each process as it seems.
I can't pinpoint using RAMMap since it shows each sub process by itself

Please note second image is Task Manager when Chrome is closed.. while I can't see how to use RAMMap to see if there is leak or some app taking too much memory

 

[mikeymikec]

When you say Chrome is closed with the second image's amount of memory usage, have you confirmed that no Chrome processes are open? There is a setting to allow Chrome to stay running in the background and I suspect that's what is happening here.

If Chrome has no processes open and you have no other apps running then 12GB usage in Win11 would be excessive. I've seen Win11 use nearly 8GB RAM just by sitting there / doing background maintenance, but in my experience it's more common to see it idling at about 4GB RAM or less.

 

[wajed]

Yes I tried multi times to close Chrome and it is the same.. I also have maybe 100-150 notepad tabs opened (but all simple little text.. ) I have VMware (no VMs running), Evernote, OneNote (just setting there unused).. that all seems not to add up to 28GB of memory.

Yes I found ' Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed ' does that really consume much? I am gonna try to restart Chrome now

Edit:
No it didn't do much.. page file is same

 

[mikeymikec]

Yes I tried multi times to close Chrome and it is the same..

Does that mean that all instances of chrome.exe were gone from Task Manager > Details?

I also have maybe 100-150 notepad tabs opened (but all simple little text.. ) I have VMware (no VMs running), Evernote, OneNote (just setting there unused).. that all seems not to add up to 28GB of memory.

If you close everything you can, how does memory usage look then?

No it didn't do much.. page file is same

When you say 'page file', hopefully you're not going by the size of pagefile.sys (because that only increases, it doesn't ever decrease unless it's manually configured or maybe some exceptional circumstance occurs)? How are you determining this?

I would just go by memory usage (the figures by the thumbnail graph) in Task Manager > Performance.

 

[Ottoo]

Memory leak i guess. Probably from chrome or something lingering after it’s closed.

 

[wajed]

Does that mean that all instances of chrome.exe were gone from Task Manager > Details?

Yes

If you close everything you can, how does memory usage look then?

After a restart

I am opening 5 tabs of .txt on Notepad
File Explorer
Chrome (but didn't surf much yet.. but all 900 tabs are open..)
MS RDP
All apps loaded by default (startup) (Evernote, OneNote, VMware Workstation, ..)(but not actively used)

and I have 24.5GBs of Committed only.

without anything opened, just a restart (and startup apps): it was 7GBs of RAM

the problem is after a restart an app started up and opened Chrome.. the images below shows what apps opened (as in Task Manager processes) and what ram/committed (but still not with 'restore' button of chrome pressed)

I would just go by memory usage (the figures by the thumbnail graph) in Task Manager > Performance.

Yes that is where my numbers where from

Memory leak i guess. Probably from chrome or something lingering after it’s closed.

It seems to be so

Maybe it's a VMware thing.. (if I use it to start a VM).. it does the leak

I'll use my device more and report here

 

[mikeymikec]

7 is on the high but not astronomical side IMO.

It's odd that your network adapter (s?) are both mentioning vmware though, it sounds like it's actively doing stuff all the time. Virtualbox also has its own network adapter but I only would expect to see it if I had a VM running. I've never used vmware though so I don't know what to expect from it.

 

[wajed]

7 is so nice.. I have much room to do lots of stuff. 35GBs with Chrome used well is also super good for me..but I've been closing chrome extensively last few days because it would reach 45GBs of Committed super easily and I don't want to go beyond much above 50GB (fear of crash..)

I'll try to inspect the VMware thing

 

[mikeymikec]

Browser bookmarks are your friend (plus a decent bookmark filing system), IMO.

Admittedly bookmark management is not one of Chrome's strong points IMO. It's why I've used Firefox most of the last ~25 years.