Ram is applied without purpose.
Ram is applied without purpose.
Yesterday I was setting up Fallout 4 and my friend DM’d me to join in, so I paused the download. I noticed my PC was acting sluggish because it had been running nonstop all day. After restarting, things improved for a short time. I played a bit of DBD and experienced some lag spikes, but Malwarebytes was consuming a lot of memory, so I closed it down and kept going. Now days my RAM is constantly at full capacity even when I have most apps closed. My system has a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16GB DDR3 RAM and an Radeon 7750 graphics card—definitely not ideal but it works. Right now my computer is idle while nothing is running.
Modern OS handles RAM differently—Windows stores data and keeps apps alive even when closed, to boost performance. This space gets released only when needed, so it’s safe as long as you’re not fully loaded or using paging.
The operating system handles things as expected, but it shouldn't consume too many memory resources on a 16GB device. Current heap usage is already problematic, and introducing more allocations without sufficient free space creates unnecessary delays.
It resolved on its own while driving in a car, and didn't occur again after two restarts and ongoing use.