Should use as much ram as the machine has. The ideas of free memory are from the days of DOS. Let's read more about your PC, if you are running torrents or something else.
The file "System and Compressed Memory" use excessive RAM and my computer constantly freezes. Do I need this file and how do I disable it.

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