Windows 10 memory , do I have a problem?

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Stiler

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Hello, so ever since I've upgraded to Windows 10 I have noticed my physical memory is almost always at a constant 90% or above use. Even when I open task manager and add up all of the processes and things listed it's no where near that.

I was trying to track down what might be using so much memory and using Poolmon to see, this is what it shows:

http://i.imgur.com/AjteVmx.png

The top thing I found out is ntoskrnl.exe, is that a normal amount of memory it should have?

Does anything else look off/strange to anyone?
 
Yes you have a problem. You installed Windows 10 FFS!

The memory consumption is a normal feature of windows, has been since Vista. It preloads all the junk you've previously used to the ram so windows can access them faster if you need it later on. In theory this is not supposed to cause problems but in practice it has been known to do so. You could disable 'superfetch' but then you would be experiencing slower app startup times.
 
unless you get low/out of memory errors whats the problem anyway?
 
silent-circuit said:
It's fine, working as intended.

Also, ignore B00nie. You'll be enjoying faster startup times and DX12 while he whines about change.
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More like ignore silent-circuit, he seems pretty ignorant. I've been using Win10 since beta. Also there are no DX12 titles to speak of for years to come lol. "Faster startup times" - funny.
 
Stiler said:
Hello, so ever since I've upgraded to Windows 10 I have noticed my physical memory is almost always at a constant 90% or above use. Even when I open task manager and add up all of the processes and things listed it's no where near that.

I was trying to track down what might be using so much memory and using Poolmon to see, this is what it shows:

http://i.imgur.com/AjteVmx.png

The top thing I found out is ntoskrnl.exe, is that a normal amount of memory it should have?

Does anything else look off/strange to anyone?
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You should be checking memory utilization in Task Manager. It will show a percentage used. That amount does not take into account data cached by Superfetch. If that number is near 100% then something is wrong.
 
Win8.1pro here and ram usage currently is just 2.2GB of 16GB so Boonie is talking bs.
 
Honestly, I find memory usage between Windows 10 and Ubuntu Mate to be pretty much identical at around 2.2GB. It's OS install size where Linux has the advantage.
 
rezerekted said:
Win8.1pro here and ram usage currently is just 2.2GB of 16GB so Boonie is talking bs.
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You're full of it. Either you haven't used large programs that were cached by superfetch or you've disabled superfetch. It's normal behaviour for windows to fill up the ram.
 
B00nie, are you aware that Windows 7, 8.x and 10 automatically disable Superfetch when used on SSDs?

(Admittedly, we don't know whether or the OP has an SSD.)
 
evilsofa said:
B00nie, are you aware that Windows 7, 8.x and 10 automatically disable Superfetch when used on SSDs?

(Admittedly, we don't know whether or the OP has an SSD.)
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Since the OP has his ram full it's very likely superfetch is enabled.
 
Two screenshots, one from my Windows PC, one from my Ubuntu Mate PC. Looks like Windows is actually using slightly less ram than the Linux machine - That is out of the ordinary however, most of the time they're literally identical.

Both running SSD's.

Windows 10:

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Ubuntu Mate 16.04:

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Yes I have an SSD as my main windows drive, however superfetch is indeed turned on, should I turn it off? I read some things saying that windows automatically turns it off if you're on an ssd, but for some reason its enabled on my computer.
 
Stiler said:
Yes I have an SSD as my main windows drive, however superfetch is indeed turned on, should I turn it off? I read some things saying that windows automatically turns it off if you're on an ssd, but for some reason its enabled on my computer.
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I don't understand the logic of turning off superfetch when SSD is detected. Ram is always faster than hdd/ssd. Unless MS silently admits that filling up your ram with cache isn't as trouble free as advertised... :D
 
@ Stiler
What is your commit size and max in performance tab of taskmanager?
 
evilsofa said:
B00nie, are you aware that Windows 7, 8.x and 10 automatically disable Superfetch when used on SSDs?

(Admittedly, we don't know whether or the OP has an SSD.)
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Right now it shows 1.8GB of 16GB being used and I have Firefox, foobar2k and Lucas Chess running so even less than yesterday, Like I said, Boonie is FoS. :)
 
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Give RAMMap a peek and see if it gives you a better idea of what could be consuming all the memory. Also check if Empty Working Sets from the menu helps.
 
rezerekted said:
Right now it shows 1.8GB of 16GB being used and I have Firefox, foobar2k and Lucas Chess running so even less than yesterday, Like I said, Boonie is FoS. :)
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If you have SSD superfetch is disabled and it won't fill up your ram like it NORMALLY does. You just don't know jack pal.
 
Stiler said:
Yes I have an SSD as my main windows drive, however superfetch is indeed turned on, should I turn it off? I read some things saying that windows automatically turns it off if you're on an ssd, but for some reason its enabled on my computer.
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Do you also have a hard drive? If you have a hard drive it will cache from the hard drive.
 
rezerekted said:
Or it's because I know how to configure a PC to run well, "friend".
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No you just don't understand how your OS works and then post completely wrong information here, pal.

The fact that you consider automatic disabling of superfetch as 'knowing how to configure a pc' speaks a lot lol.
 
B00nie said:
No you just don't understand how your OS works and then post completely wrong information here, pal.

The fact that you consider automatic disabling of superfetch as 'knowing how to configure a pc' speaks a lot lol.
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No, I'm talking about GPedit, stopping shit from autoloading and disabling unneeded services, mmc, secpol, etc. Been on this install of Win8 since it came out so think I am doing just fine without your input, "bud".
 
rezerekted said:
No, I'm talking about GPedit, stopping shit from autoloading and disabling unneeded services, mmc, secpol, etc. Been on this install of Win8 since it came out so think I am doing just fine without your input, "bud".
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You're way off topic pal. It's apparent that you do not understand how superfetch works.
 
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