• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Yeah no. I’m at 32 and task manager says that 28+GiB are being used on idle. The sum of everything that appears on task manager doesn’t reach 2GiB.

    And it’s not “the OS is using it because you aren’t”, because if I do anything demanding, the OS won’t give me back that RAM, it’ll use the swap instead.

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      5 days ago

      And it’s not “the OS is using it because you aren’t

      That was nonsense int he first place anyways

      Windows doesnt include cache in the used ram procentage

    • filcuk@feddit.uk
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      13 days ago

      That is not how this works. The system isn’t using all that, I can guarantee that. Even launching a terminal (or any app) as hidden will not make it and its usage appear in taskmgr - I once unknowingly managed to exhaust my 64GB by launching hundreds of terminal sessions withoutever killing them. Try something like sysinternals process manager to see what’s actually going on.

    • Tiral@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      You have other problems beyond windows. My laptop has 32gb and it uses like 6.5gb with nothing open on the desktop.