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Laptops Ram at 85% while idle need help

Feb 17, 2015 7:52AM PST

Hi my Name is Jon and i've been experiencing high ram usage without an Answer..

I currently have 4 GB of ram on my laptop and i am running windows 8 .

I have run Full scans With my kaspersky total security and have found nothing ..

I also looked in my task manager and it says that 50mb is being used in total but yet it says 85-93% is being used up.. I am really confused and dumbfounded on to what to do now.. I tried many solutions online and have found nothing, I ran a rootkit scan and found nothing on that too.

This just recently started too , i had this laptop for a while and the ram was usually at around 27% used with some simple processes up and all of a sudden its 90%!!! With no processes up, and i don't know whats going on . If someone can help me that would be awesome!

Thank you

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That's true. Windows uses ram, even for a trivial reason.
Feb 17, 2015 8:03AM PST

There are tomes on the web about this, so you don't want it to use 85 to 93% but 100% given you only have 4GB RAM. RAM beats storage every time.
Bob

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Feb 17, 2015 8:08AM PST

Sorry but like i said, i used to run things smoothly about last week (The ram usage was using around 10% while idle) and now i turned on my laptop and its using 90% of my ram while idle. I can't figure out what happened

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Here's a longer discussion. DOES NOT MEAN THIS IS IT.
Feb 17, 2015 8:19AM PST
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Nod to RAMMAP
Feb 17, 2015 8:09AM PST
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Hmmm
Feb 17, 2015 8:19AM PST

Hmmm .. Well it says that "Non Paged Pool" is using about 2.5 gigs of ram .. I'm not sure what this is

"Process Private" about 600mb


and "Mapped File" is using about 400mb

I'm not sure if this is normal but if you or someone can dumb this down for me it would be much help

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600MB doesn't sound like 90%
Feb 17, 2015 8:22AM PST

Now if someone didn't use Task Manager or was using some older memory monitor you could get false readings. Until you reveal exactly where this reading is from it looks fine so far. Also, if you sort it by size in the tool you are finding 90% the app should be at the top or bottom.
Bob

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ummu
Feb 17, 2015 9:13AM PST

So how about the "Non paged pool" using 2.5 gigs of ram? is that normal? And they all add up so thats around 3.5 gigs of ram being used up

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Please consider the details you have given.
Feb 17, 2015 9:21AM PST
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what happens when...
Feb 18, 2015 12:06PM PST

...you save every open file, close every program you were using?

You can use this method to flush the RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZpJNtr-qrg

I suspect since windows 8 uses a continual hiberfil, that some memory leak lets that keep using more RAM from each startup. Remember, unless you turn off Fast Boot, W8 always starts back up from it's hibernation file. Another method to check if that's the problem is to turn off Fast Boot and then reboot once or twice, see if there's a change. You can turn it back on later if wanted.