High RAM usage

[Firefighter]

Hello I'm new to this forum and I joined because I wanna ask this question

Windows 7 is using 1.7 GB of my ram (2.0 Installed) and is that normal?

Thanks

 

[richc46]

I use 1.2 GB at idle. Give us a shot of task manager, and we can tell if it looks ok.

 

[whs]

With 2GBs total, that is slightly high. I also have 1.7GBs used at time, but with 4GBs total. In addition of what Richard suggests you should also look at Resource Monitor > Memory tab. A snip of the color bar would be useful. There may be a big chunk used by the hardware.

 

[Zepher]

fwiw, unused RAM is wasted RAM.

 

[deepakumar]

Guys want to know what should be an ideal RAM usage when no external program/application is being run like word,music player,video player etc....on an avg. my RAM usage is 35-40% while being on the network but it shoots upto 65-70% when use couple of application like watching movie & downloading from net...i did took the Op.Events log as well....i'm attaching please check & let me know bcz there were some problems listed which i couldn't understand....

 

[deepakumar]

Here is the Op.Events log

Level Date & Time Source Id Task category
Warning 02-05-2010 05:22:13 Diagnostics-Performance 201 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 02-05-2010 05:22:13 Diagnostics-Performance 200 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 100 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 203 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 203 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Error 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 203 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 201 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 01-05-2010 04:16:06 Diagnostics-Performance 200 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 23:38:18 Diagnostics-Performance 107 Boot Performance Monitoring
Error 30-04-2010 23:38:18 Diagnostics-Performance 101 Boot Performance Monitoring
Error 30-04-2010 23:38:18 Diagnostics-Performance 100 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 23:38:18 Diagnostics-Performance 200 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 18:50:18 Diagnostics-Performance 110 Boot Performance Monitoring
Error 30-04-2010 18:50:18 Diagnostics-Performance 106 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 18:50:18 Diagnostics-Performance 101 Boot Performance Monitoring
Error 30-04-2010 18:50:18 Diagnostics-Performance 100 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 18:50:18 Diagnostics-Performance 200 Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 110 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 107 Boot Performance Monitoring
Critical 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 106 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 103 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 103 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 103 Boot Performance Monitoring
Warning 30-04-2010 11:05:43 Diagnostics-Performance 100 Boot Performance Monitoring

 

[Firefighter]

ok ill post another Screenshot tomorrow cuz Im using my other laptop. (lenovo thinkpad X61)

 

[cluberti]

Double-post somehow. Oops!

 

[cluberti]

Yes, both a task manager (performance tab) and resmon (memory tab) screenshot would be quite helpful.

 

[imeem]

Is it the faster the ram stick you have, the lesser the ram usage? Because my friend's computer he has 4 GB of fast ddr2 (don't know the name and model) use less than 1 GB of ram after he starts up. And for me, my pc has 8 GB of DDR2 (slow ram) and my pc uses mor than 1 GB of ram at start up and we both have similar programs at start-up.

 

[cluberti]

Not really, no - the more RAM you have (and the smaller the paging file), the more RAM windows will use and cache data into. Having Windows use more RAM (especially for caching) is actually a good thing, not a bad thing.

 

[pparks1]

The speed of your RAM has nothing to do with how much RAM is used. Sometimes, a portion of your RAM is utilized for your video card...so that will show in use. In addition, things you have installed and are starting at boot time will eat some of the RAM. Your choice of applications like AV and such have an effect. Also, 64bit code takes more space.

What is important is how much ram you have available...not free. Windows 7 will load things proactively to the RAM from the hard drive and this gives you much faster access when you launch these apps. These apps are cached...and that RAM can be used for other things the instant it's needed. So, while this RAM isn't technically "free", for all intents and purposes it is.

I'd say with a shared video card potential that 1.7GB used seems reasonable.

 

[Firefighter]

here are the photos

 

[Firefighter]

uhh it sortta went down but it is still very high right?

 

[logicearth]

Well...it appears your computer is processing stuff so obviously the RAM usage is justified. According to your screenshots

 

[whs]

Your RAM usage looks normal. The CPU nums are a little high, but that depends on what you were running at the time. My CPU gets only up that high when I do video editing - but then it is a quad core.

 

[cluberti]

+1 for looks normal - your system is doing something (and looks like it has been for a bit, given those CPU graphs), so I expect you're gonna see RAM usage increase. I'm with whs - what is the system doing at the time?

 

[imeem]

That looks very similar to my computer's ram usage at start up, but it's around 1.72 GB

 

[cluberti]

Also worth noting that almost 45% of that "used" RAM is actually just cache - it can actually be made available if a running application needed it.

 

[Firefighter]

At that time, I just opened google chrome 2 Tabs and nothing else