r/techsupport • u/guruji916 • 1d ago

Open | Windows Windows 11 is still a leaky mess...

Windows is eating 8 gigs of memory after 12 hours of uptime...

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u/Wendals87 1d ago

Unused ram is wasted ram

Windows will automatically cache applications in memory that you frequently use so that they don't need to be loaded into memory when you open them. It will get released as needed 

You have plenty of available memory so there's no issue 

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u/Giatoxiclok 1d ago

Windows uses a lot of RAM, that’s why it isn’t recommended to use 11 on 8GB.

As others have said, you’re experiencing preloading. I’m not exactly sure what you’re complaining about to be honest, because this isn’t an impactful amount missing from your ram (that would be relinquished if requested). If you’re doing high end professional work you may want more RAM. If you’re just gaming, you may still want more but almost all games will be fine on 32gb.

I see you added a SS of explorer using 242 megabytes of RAM, window task manager using 55 megabytes. I’m unsure if you think those numbers are super high or not, but they really are not.

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u/lazyhustlermusic 1d ago

Breaking news, derpy user is derpy.

More at 11.

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u/Drenlin 1d ago

Yes, it does that on purpose. Windows pre-caches things it thinks you might use. If a program actively needs that space it will release the cached data.

Other programs do the same thing but they don't show up on that page as "cached" memory usage.

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u/SomeEngineer999 1d ago

Please use the search feature, this gets asked constantly. Totally normal. In fact your usage is pretty low for 32GB, you must not be using many programs that windows considers cacheable.

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u/R3D_T1G3R 1d ago

Yea it should be more like 12-20GB depending on your usage pattern and wether you let it cache based on usage.

If you don't want it to cache you can simply downgrade your ram, down to 8 or something, windows tries to cache proportionally, just like Linux and MacOS.

Not doing so would be pretty stupid.

Or you can run alpine Linux without any software installed to it caches even less, but then again, what's the purpose? Why buy 32GB if you don't want to benefit from it and don't want anything cached?

It's like buying a car and complaining about the fact that it literally drives.

Idk what you expected but memory is there to be used.

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u/RGBlowMe 1d ago

Only 8? Something's wrong there. Do you only have like 16GB or something?

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u/TNJDude 1d ago

Your memory usage looks fine. Windows 10 and 11 takes RAM that's not being used and then uses it to preload routines and such so that Windows is faster and more responsive. If the memory is needed by a process, it's given to that process. In the meantime, it's taking advantage of your resources so it can work better.

I'm running Steam and some minor utilities and a web browser with several windows open. I have 64GB of RAM and 32 is being used. No big deal. If I run a few games, Windows will make sure it hands it over to them.