Capacity Problems with Ram
Capacity Problems with Ram
Your most recent capture indicates everything is okay. Usage stands at about 30% with 9GB consumed out of 31.1GB total. The actual used space is closer to 31.1GB rather than the projected 32GB since roughly 0.9GB is reserved for hardware.
It said that before. That's why I'm so confused. The ram may be upgraded, but the capacity isn't- I can almost certainly say that I've never seen 9gb being taken idly. About 7gb is being exposed to me as a user, as I can tell from switching between percent and values. Technically it would be more like 5 or so since there's a mystery 2gb that I assume is just windows backend separate from any user. I can get a few screenshots, but I just tried swapping ram slots and now my system is stuck kinda living with no output and a red DRAM light.
It seems you're having trouble interpreting the image. The screenshot appears to match the expected format, making it difficult to understand what's being shown.
Percentages indicate the share of committed memory, not total available space. Everything seems fine, and using 9GB with browsers, Discord and other common apps is typical given the 32GB allocation. Programs usually try to reserve more RAM just in case, since that memory isn’t actively used.
That's not true though. (Testing here on my laptop since my pc is still blackscreened) My laptop has 16gb of ram btw. Dividing the ram amount shown in values by the percent shown in percent mode, and multiplying that by 100, each one has ~7600mb (Values aren't exact since I couldn't have them up at the same time) available to it. Even just taking into account the first five, that would be over double my physical capacity. Speaking of, it seems to also be happening to my laptop. It might just be the newest version of Windows 11. This time there's not too much phantom memory usage. Doing some back of the napkin math, that's 7,689mb of available space total. That's quite similar to my desktop's available space... it might really just be windows 11.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. That makes WAY more sense. So it's just the least useful statistic in task manager and deviates from the pattern of every other single statistic. Is that just a windows 11 thing? There's no way I wouldn't've noticed that over the years of using windows 10... Thank you for the clarification- do you happen to know of a way to make it % of capacity?
It appears consistent across Win10, and I haven’t noticed any prior differences. It’s hard to say you’d be able to alter it. The idea of using percentages relative to past usage seems sensible—it helps compare how much an app consumes versus others.