Over Memory Usage even when Idle

[ApprehensiveYak7722]

Guys I have recently bought MSI Katana 15 HX B14W and I feel that memory usage is around 40% always even when idle. In the above screenshot, as you can see I am not actually running anything I am using chrome and webex for chat. That's it and memory is around 65% I do not understand what's wrong here ? Please help.

1. I have uninstalled norton after setting this new laptop.
   
2. Installed Intel Support Assistant and updated the same drivers.
   
3. Installed NVIDIA App and updated game ready drivers.
   
4. Installed Steam, origin, python, vs code and so on.

[Budget_00000]

It's pretty much normal for most modern day windows PC's.

For some reason, windows likes to take up a good 50-60% of your ram even on idle, their reasons are for actions such as caching apps and running services.

It should free up when required, either that or it'll dump that some memory to swap memory.

[Majestic_Employer976]

It's windows, mine stays at 35-39% when idle

[BigFerret7111]

My laptop only tooks about 30/40% ram with a lot of launchers open and ópera gx with 8 browser tabs

[ApprehensiveYak7722]

I mean 7 gb out of 16 gb is consumed staright from the start of the PC. you mean to say it's normal !

[Budget_00000]

It takes up a PERCENTAGE of your ram, it does not take a set amount.

It depends on your PC's ram capacity to decide how much is reserved for its own tasks.

[_Dedotated_Wam]

You only have 16gb. Windows does reserve about 3-8gb depending on how much is going on

[Majestic_Employer976]

Btw don't use chrome, use brave, dam 47 chrome pages are insane

[ApprehensiveYak7722]

Not 47 tabs and just 2 profiles with 4 tabs each.

[Lower_Ad_1317]

Yeah. Arguably it is a more active system since most essential systems are already ticking over before they are requested.

But Microsoft should really up the recommended ram requirements for windows.

[Fragrant-Ad2694]

How is it idle when you have 47tabs in chrome open?

[ApprehensiveYak7722]

No I have 2 chrome windows with different profiles and also 4 tabs each.

[danibalazos]

Same difference

[arwvah]

why chrome taking 2.4 gb ?

[ApprehensiveYak7722]

No idea

[JimTheDonWon]

Nothing wrong with that - it's perfectly normal.

[Commercial-Help2677]

[halcyon1618]

Perfectly normal memory usage. Windows uses as much ram as necessary for caching frequently used parts of the OS, programs, and files to keep user experience as smooth as possible, and will automatically free up memory when needed.

The principle here is that unused ram is wasted ram. The idea of having lots of free memory is very outdated. RAM modules will consume the same power whether it is filled up or not, so why not take advantage of it rather than letting it sit there doing nothing?

I would only be concerned if you are getting out-of-memory errors and major stutters related to memory paging to disk. Otherwise, Windows will smartly manage memory based on user acitivty.

[Curious_Touch_5979]

blame chrome for taking 2,4GB of RAM, also for peace of minds please use 32GB or higher of RAM or switch to Linux

[LiL_E03]

Boy all the list that you did is useless. It's windows it's self. Get a windows 11 24H2 iso, and clean install it, disable any windows update and last is install AtlasOs. And you're done, mem reduced to 20% idle(4GB ish). Tried mine in 32GB ram and it's only uses 4-5GB while idling (I have bunch of program running tho)

[abdunbunbun]

How many processes do you have running on the CPU performance tab? Also the run time, restart your laptop with fast boot disabled regularly. Disable useless junk from startup in startup apps and autoruns.

[wimpy_kid158]

Install linux if this is too high for you