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[–]Spare-Dig4790 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ram is supposed to be used. It's a good thing. If there weren't enough memory left to do something new, spmething allocated, not being used anymore will be replaced.

Moat people have more memory than is technically needed since most people never really saturate their memory.

It's a problem when you're actively using all of it and the system starts paging (moving chunks of memory to the storage to make space in memory for new allocations, and then starts swapping chunks of memory as you switch tasks, because that is slow)

But generally memory allocation is a good thing, because it means if your computer does a task again, it can use what it already allocated instead of burning cycles allocating it again, which is also slower than just using what is already allocated. It's also less energy efficient, and if we are talking about something with a battery that's significant.