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Windows 8 - high memory usage
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It is normal. The reason being it improves your computers performance, basically.Actually my computer runs just fine. It never consumes above 3.2 GB for regular use (web browser, IDE, mail, I runs plenty of apps), but never below 2.0 GB when I close all the apps running.
I read in this thread that the problem with Samsung notebooks is Intellimem (that I can't find in task manager), and people who stopped that process/service make their windows consume less RAM (only 10% of RAM, maybe around 1GB).
I'm unfamiliar with Windows 8, so maybe there's something wrong in my way finding Intellimem (Task manager - details - then i look for intellimem.exe, but i couldn't find it).
So is it normal that windows8 64bit consumes that much memory? if not, what can i do?
Thank you
Not since XP has the computers ability to manage ram really been god awful. I remember installing third party utilities named after goats just to clean up the RAM in XP. Haven't had to do that crap ever since.
Reasons being the computer uses RAM where its handy to. Say you load up your web browser. Pow, its in RAM. Now close it. You probably won't recover 100% of the RAM you just had a minute ago, because even though the browser correctly deconstructed itself (coder talk) windows keeps a copy of the browser program fetched on the RAM in case you want to load it again quickly. This is really handy to have with even bigger programs, like word processors or video game clients. You'll notice during your session that the first time you launch Word (unless you have it set to run at startup) that it takes it a second. Close it though and come back to it later and you don't have that same delay.
This type of fetching is analogous to a real world desktop. Say I want to do my history paper. I go to my bookshelf, grab a laptop, my history book, notes, papers, etc. and I open up this big ass book. Every time I close the book, am I really going to get off my ass and put it back on the shelf?? No. Not unless my desk gets too cluttered and if I don't need to use that book frequently.
Basically windows does the same thing, it intelligently tries to keep your most commonly used programs and files cached in RAM to speed up your productivity. It also has the added benefit of fewer reads/writes to your Hard Drives and in particular any SSDs you might have, which are limited finitely in how many times it can be read/written in it's lifetime.
tl;dr - it's not a bug its a feature
don't worry about it until you actually encounter problems. Even on an 8GB rig where I do a fair bit of multitasking and gaming I never see myself cap over 4GB of usage. It might have happened once when I launched WOW and Skyrim and a few web browsers together, but thats about it. 0 -
It is normal. The reason being it improves your computers performance, basically.
Not since XP has the computers ability to manage ram really been god awful. I remember installing third party utilities named after goats just to clean up the RAM in XP. Haven't had to do that crap ever since.
Reasons being the computer uses RAM where its handy to. Say you load up your web browser. Pow, its in RAM. Now close it. You probably won't recover 100% of the RAM you just had a minute ago, because even though the browser correctly deconstructed itself (coder talk) windows keeps a copy of the browser program fetched on the RAM in case you want to load it again quickly. This is really handy to have with even bigger programs, like word processors or video game clients. You'll notice during your session that the first time you launch Word (unless you have it set to run at startup) that it takes it a second. Close it though and come back to it later and you don't have that same delay.
This type of fetching is analogous to a real world desktop. Say I want to do my history paper. I go to my bookshelf, grab a laptop, my history book, notes, papers, etc. and I open up this big ass book. Every time I close the book, am I really going to get off my ass and put it back on the shelf?? No. Not unless my desk gets too cluttered and if I don't need to use that book frequently.
Basically windows does the same thing, it intelligently tries to keep your most commonly used programs and files cached in RAM to speed up your productivity. It also has the added benefit of fewer reads/writes to your Hard Drives and in particular any SSDs you might have, which are limited finitely in how many times it can be read/written in it's lifetime.
tl;dr - it's not a bug its a feature don't worry about it until you actually encounter problems. Even on an 8GB rig where I do a fair bit of multitasking and gaming I never see myself cap over 4GB of usage. It might have happened once when I launched WOW and Skyrim and a few web browsers together, but thats about it.
Thank you very much. It's a very clear explanation (even for me who doesn't speak much English).
One thing still confuses me though, after boot up, before i run any apps, windows 8 consumes 1.1 GB RAM, after 1 minutes being idle, it consumes 2.2 GB RAM (and I still don't run any apps).
So, in analogy to real world desktop, what does Windows 8 bring to the desktop (so it takes 2.2 GB) when I haven't bring any?0 -
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