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April 29th, 2021 15:00
XPS 8940 super high ram usage
My dell XPS 8940 is using 18 GB ram when I'm doing nothing. I have rebooted, installed drivers, stopped almost all tasks in the background, and the task manager is not showing me what is using all the ram. Would appreciate some help. Thanks
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Mary G
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April 29th, 2021 16:00
How much total ram do you have? You are reading the performance chart wrong. Open task manager by right clicking on the taskbar. Open the Performance tab and look at Memory. It will show what percentage of your total usable ram you are using. I have 16gb of ram installed and I am using 4.3 of the total available 15.7 which is 27%. Look at it again. The 18 might be your total available ram. Some ram is used by the system so my chart lists 15.7 of 16 gb available--which is normal.
You might have to select show more details when opening the Taskbar.
thecomputerdude
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April 29th, 2021 16:00
I have 32gb total ram, and im pretty sure im not reading it wrong.
Vic384
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April 29th, 2021 17:00
@thecomputerdude Your Task Manager image does not appear to show that you are doing nothing. Your CPU usage is at 30% and I am not what it is but you are showing two incidents of VMware Network Ad?. I run VirtualBox but I don't have VMware Network Ad. Maybe this has something to do with when you captured the image but your memory usage jumped from zero to 21GB, Perhaps you should have captured an image during a steady-state interval. When I view my memory usage in Task Manager it is a straight flat line
thecomputerdude
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April 29th, 2021 18:00
Sorry, let me give you some more details. I run VMs on my machine with vmware, which are all powered down. The full name is VMware Network Adapter. My CPU just had a random spike, so it was running at around 10-1% before. The ram jumped because I just opened task manager.
Vic384
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April 30th, 2021 05:00
@thecomputerdude In your last Task Manager image, it appears that you have a lot of processes that are using a lot of memory. Google Chrome is using twice the memory I am using. I am not sure what all the others are but OVRServer_x64.exe, Discord, Antimalware Service Executable, MoUSO Core Worker Process, RazerCortex, and Steam to name a few. My Antimalware Service Executable is a background process using less than 35 MB. Why is Search using over 158 MB, my Search is a background process using 0 MB?
thecomputerdude
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April 30th, 2021 11:00
Well I do have a lot of stuff in the background but when I stop all of them it frees up about 4gbs of ram
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April 30th, 2021 15:00
@thecomputerdude - How many Chrome extensions are you running? Chrome is a RAM hog and its extensions make it worse. So disable any of those you don't really need and see if that reduces the amount of RAM Chrome is hogging.
Antimalware Service Executable is part of Windows Security (aka: Windows Defender) so you don't want to disable that. It's using ~260 MB of RAM on my XPS 8930 which is less than on your PC. So it may be running a scheduled automatic task. See if this can help you reduce the RAM it's using but I would not disable Real Time Protection.
MoUsoCoreWorker.exe is the part of Windows Update that's constantly checking for updates in the background. It's only using ~232 MB of RAM on my PC, about the same as on your PC.
Do you use Adobe Creative Cloud? Adobe CEF Helper.exe is part of that service and has a history of hogging RAM and CPU time.
Discord has a history of memory leaks so check to see if there's a newer version and/or disable it unless you're actively using it.
Open the Startup tab in Device Manager and stop unnecessary stuff from loading at boot. They can still load if/when you start the related app, but don't disable anything related to malware protection, Windows update etc.