RAM Usage

[severedsolo]

First post here. I can not figure out how to start a new thread, so I am piggy backing on here. Would someone, please, point me in the right direction.

My situation is that I run windows 7 64bit on a 32GB RAM, 3.0 GHz Xeon quad-core machine with RAID 0, striped, 10,000 RPM drives. I thought 64bit OSs were capable of using "lots" of RAM. I have tried to push things by running two dozen you tube videos, a WMP video and AVG full scan at max speed all running at once and the max RAM usage I get is 12% compared to RAM usage of 8% - 10% (depending on how long my machine has been on) with no apps open. What gives????????????

32Gb of RAM :sarc: fro what your saying your not using your pc for very intensive stuff.... why on earth do you need that much? and using less RAM is a GOOD thing! if your not using it all it means that your PC is coping comfortably.... start worrying when under "normal" usage it starts using all the RAM and lagging.... but 32G is a bit excessive it has to be said... and X64 is capable of using all 32Gb IF its needed, obviously its not in your case

oh and to start a new thread just click the big yellow new thread button on the forum page....

 

[chrysalis]

I had 5gig ram utilisation earlier today, mostly used by web browsers since they all use ram for cache and mem leaks. But I had to close 2 of them down as my cpu was been hogged down for some reason. So just using 3.23 gig now.

 

[WDAexodus]

First post here. I can not figure out how to start a new thread, so I am piggy backing on here. Would someone, please, point me in the right direction.

My situation is that I run windows 7 64bit on a 32GB RAM, 3.0 GHz Xeon quad-core machine with RAID 0, striped, 10,000 RPM drives. I thought 64bit OSs were capable of using "lots" of RAM. I have tried to push things by running two dozen you tube videos, a WMP video and AVG full scan at max speed all running at once and the max RAM usage I get is 12% compared to RAM usage of 8% - 10% (depending on how long my machine has been on) with no apps open. What gives????????????

Sounds like you're complaining because your pc is efficient. I wish I had your problem.

 

[severedsolo]

I had 5gig ram utilisation earlier today, mostly used by web browsers since they all use ram for cache and mem leaks. But I had to close 2 of them down as my cpu was been hogged down for some reason. So just using 3.23 gig now.

and theres me hunting for leaks if i start using more than 1.8GB.... mind you that is for home use... no idea what you use yours for, i guess video editing etc would use alot more

 

[computersplus]

twilight zone

am i in the twilight zone.....weird just weird lol.......

 

[marseverywhere]

I certainly am not complaining . . .

First post here. I can not figure out how to start a new thread, so I am piggy backing on here. Would someone, please, point me in the right direction.

My situation is that I run windows 7 64bit on a 32GB RAM, 3.0 GHz Xeon quad-core machine with RAID 0, striped, 10,000 RPM drives. I thought 64bit OSs were capable of using "lots" of RAM. I have tried to push things by running two dozen you tube videos, a WMP video and AVG full scan at max speed all running at once and the max RAM usage I get is 12% compared to RAM usage of 8% - 10% (depending on how long my machine has been on) with no apps open. What gives????????????

Sounds like you're complaining because your pc is efficient. I wish I had your problem.

I am certainly not complaining that I have resources to spare and then some. I was just curious as to why my RAM usage only went up from 2.5GB (8%) or 3.2GB (10%) at "ideal" to a max of about 4GB (12%) of RAM usage under "heavy" usage. I just thought that a 64bit OS would use much more RAM if it had it and I wondered why it did not. That is my question.

 

[richc46]

Go to task manager to be sure all your ram is recognized.
In search type memory diagnostic, to see if everything is ok. If these work out, do not worry about it your computer is working properly and will use the additional ram if needed.

 

[logicearth]

I am certainly not complaining that I have resources to spare and then some. I was just curious as to why my RAM usage only went up from 2.5GB (8%) or 3.2GB (10%) at "ideal" to a max of about 4GB (12%) of RAM usage under "heavy" usage. I just thought that a 64bit OS would use much more RAM if it had it and I wondered why it did not. That is my question.

Probably your heavy usage is not heavy enough to fill 32 GBs, just a thought.

 

[WDAexodus]

I would think that would be accurate usage based on what you described. I did the same with my 4 GB and was at about 85% usage. If you want to stress test your system make a movie while doing multi track audio editing with a program like Pro Tools. That'll make your RAM sweat a bit.

 

[chrysalis]

I had 5gig ram utilisation earlier today, mostly used by web browsers since they all use ram for cache and mem leaks. But I had to close 2 of them down as my cpu was been hogged down for some reason. So just using 3.23 gig now.

and theres me hunting for leaks if i start using more than 1.8GB.... mind you that is for home use... no idea what you use yours for, i guess video editing etc would use alot more

home use, but my style of using a web browser isnt typical.

I tend to leave dozens and dozens of sites loaded in tabs just incase I need them again soon. I use maxthon, IE8, FF and opera. Opera and FF have saved states of over 50 tabs each, maxthon has another 40 or so, IE is only able to save one window worth of states which is 12 tabs however I usually have another 20 or 30 pages loaded at any given time. My machine has 6 gig of ram so using 5 gig wasnt a problem as such but my browsers were bogging the processor down.

 

[marseverywhere]

Go to task manager to be sure all your ram is recognized.
In search type memory diagnostic, to see if everything is ok. If these work out, do not worry about it your computer is working properly and will use the additional ram if needed.

Task manager says that all my RAM, 32765 MB, is recognized. Windows Memory Diagnostics reports that there are no errors.

Thank you richc46 I learned a couple of things.

 

[marseverywhere]

I am certainly not complaining that I have resources to spare and then some. I was just curious as to why my RAM usage only went up from 2.5GB (8%) or 3.2GB (10%) at "ideal" to a max of about 4GB (12%) of RAM usage under "heavy" usage. I just thought that a 64bit OS would use much more RAM if it had it and I wondered why it did not. That is my question.

Probably your heavy usage is not heavy enough to fill 32 GBs, just a thought.

Had to laugh at your reply here. Yea, never thought that the usage I spoke about earlier, two dozen youtube videos running, a video on WMC and running AVG at full speed, would use up "ALL" my RAM, but with a 64bit (Win 7) OS I thought I would use a lot more than 4.5GB of RAM since I have 32GB for the OS to use.

By the way, under such usage almost all, 96% plus, of my quad-core 3.0GHz CPU power is used at times. I still don't quite get it as to why more RAM is not used. The only answers I have gotten are that it does not need more, which is a surprise considering my CPU usage under such loads. Any tech answers out there.