I am tending to a W11 PC of a friend, with my W11 PC alongside.
The initial problem was their PC was very sluggish.
I checked using Task Manager and memory was about 98% full.
I rebooted and with nothing running (foreground programmes) it was around
60% - 65%.
As soon as things started running memory usage was up to 80% or more.
I've beaten it over the head and got it down to 50% with nothing running (mainly by telling Edge not to keep hogging stuff especially when not running) but there doesn't seem to be a lot of headroom.
This PC is currently running at 46% memory,
However it has 16 GB memory, which means 7.36 GB is in use.
I'm just running Task Manager and PAN.
All of this is leading up to the question - should the minimum RAM for W11
be more than 8GB?
I'm still puzzled by this, because Windows should free off memory when it runs short.
This makes me think of a memory leak.
So - given that my PC with 16 GB is using nearly 8GB not doing much should the default be 16GB?
Did I mention I hate W11?
Cheers
Dave R
Why do you care? The PC is being efficient by using as much RAM as
possible. Let the computer decide how to use RAM as it knows better than
you.
Chris wrote:
Why do you care? The PC is being efficient by using as much RAM as
possible. Let the computer decide how to use RAM as it knows better
than you.
About right, this W11Home machine has 16GB, after a fresh boot it uses
about 4.5GB, loading a single tab in firefox takes it to 5.6GB.
Don't worry about what %age of RAM task manager shows being used, worry
about how many hard page faults per second resource monitor is showing,
if that's non zero most of the time, you might benefit from more RAM ...
However systems can have uptime measured in years so this creeping
paralysis is not normal.
I am tending to a W11 PC of a friend, with my W11 PC alongside.
The initial problem was their PC was very sluggish.
I checked using Task Manager and memory was about 98% full.
I rebooted and with nothing running (foreground programmes) it was around
60% - 65%.
As soon as things started running memory usage was up to 80% or more.
I've beaten it over the head and got it down to 50% with nothing running (mainly by telling Edge not to keep hogging stuff especially when not running) but there doesn't seem to be a lot of headroom.
This PC is currently running at 46% memory,
However it has 16 GB memory, which means 7.36 GB is in use.
I'm just running Task Manager and PAN.
All of this is leading up to the question - should the minimum RAM for W11
be more than 8GB?
I'm still puzzled by this, because Windows should free off memory when it runs short.
This makes me think of a memory leak.
So - given that my PC with 16 GB is using nearly 8GB not doing much should the default be 16GB?
Did I mention I hate W11?
Cheers
Dave R
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