win 7 ram at 50% when idle

[crmmercado]

my laptop's ram usage always displays around 50% even when idle. help!

my laptop is Asus k50ij intel pentium T4400 4GB DDR2, win7 64-bit

 

[mikedl]

Hi, crmmercado, welcome to the Seven Forums!

If your system is not exhibiting slowdowns or other such errors, then I have 4 words of advice: Don't worry about it.

 

[EzioAuditore]

Ya if your facing no problems, then don't worry about it. Mind also reaches at 43% (not so far from 50) when in Idle.
The larger the memory, the more windows tends to utilize it. (There's a limit though).

 

[ARG]

yeah if it is not slowing down or no error in your system , don't worry about it.
i got 60-70% when idle on my 1 gb ram netbook. and also reach 40% on my rig

 

[logicearth]

Just to point out....A computer is never idle, you are just not using it at that moment.

 

[DeaconFrost]

It's been beaten to death online by now, but that's Windows 7 doing it's job. I've seen it written many other times, but the general consensus is....if you don't want your memory used, remoed it from your computer and put it on your desk. Windows 7 isn't XP, so it shouldn't be treated like XP. You paid for that memory, so if the computer is using it to run more efficiently....let it.

 

[rap33042]

Right on, DeaconFrost!
The old saying, "Unused memory is wasted memory", is still true.

 

[whs]

If you are interested to know what's running, open the Task Manager > Processes tab. Then click on "show processes of all users" button (on the bottom) and click on the Memory button to show you the main users on top.
But I vote with the others, nothing to worry about.

 

[ARG]

Right on, DeaconFrost!
The old saying, "Unused memory is wasted memory", is still true.

ahh ! i'm totally agree with that statement

 

[Fuzzbutts]

My 4GB of RAM is generally used up to within 50-75MB of the 4092MB. Shows me I should get some more but also that Win7 64bit is pretty good at managing things on it's own. Maybe the Intel SSD helps a bit too.

 

[whs]

My 4GB of RAM is generally used up to within 50-75MB of the 4092MB. Shows me I should get some more but also that Win7 64bit is pretty good at managing things on it's own. Maybe the Intel SSD helps a bit too.

Yeah, but I bet most is used for caching - not for running programs/data.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Yeah, but I bet most is used for caching - not for running programs/data.

That cache will be released in the event the system needs more memory. For example, in that exmaple, if a game is started that needs 2 GB of memory, the cache will be cleared enough to handle that game.