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I generally get a memory usage >80% but when I check the Task Manager, none of the programs add up to that usage. The laptop (Dell XPS 13 9360) frequently has to resort to my SSD with a large number of hard faults shown in the Resource Monitor. I think screenshots speak better to this matter:
Quanttek
Posted 2019-08-02T12:05:57.487
Reputation: 103
Windows starts paging at about 50% RAM usage, so avoiding it with only 8GB RAM is probably not possible. – Tetsujin – 2019-08-02T12:28:33.903
@Tetsujin even if it's impossible to avoid, it would probably still be good to solve this disproportionate memory usage. All my applications use no more than ~2.2GB but 7GB of my memory are somehow used. – Quanttek – 2019-08-02T14:04:27.980
Used memory is not handed back until it is needed again. Free memory == wasted memory. Don't worry about it, it's all in hand. – Tetsujin – 2019-08-02T14:09:06.297
I am aware of that. That is why I included the RamMap screenshots. AFAIK the yellow is actually used memory and not e.g. pre-loaded apps. The problem is that my whole computer hangs for easily ~30s when I close a larger application and has frequent shorter (~0.5s) freezes. I assume these are related to memory usage as the CPU usage is normally not that high. – Quanttek – 2019-08-02T20:24:43.387
You only have 8GB. That's not really enough this day & age. The OS will want 3, any browser with a few tabs open will eat another 3 easily, even a pure text page these days will be 150MB. You're already paging at that, so every time you swap another app to the front it has to page back out; that will be the source of your freezes. Either get at least twice as much RAM or stop running your browser at the same time as anything else. – Tetsujin – 2019-08-03T15:24:03.790
I am well aware of that but thank you. Unfortunately my Dell XPS 13 (9360) is not upgradeable and this also doesn't explain the discrepancy. – Quanttek – 2019-08-04T16:45:58.403
8GB is pleeeeenty! I run Chrome with 20 open tabs, VMware Virtiual machines, Visual studio, PhotoShop, Autocad 3D. Not all at once, but many times several. I never have memory issues with my 8GB. I think you have another problem.If you end up against the wall, reinstall Windows and be careful what you install of drivers and apps that might screw your installation. – MrCalvin – 2019-08-09T07:23:37.987