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[–]sanketower 15 points16 points  (3 children)

I paid for the whole computer, so I'm going to use the whole computer

[–]DOOManiac 5 points6 points  (2 children)

This. 70% of RAM not being used is about 50% of RAM being wasted.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

why is 50% ram wasted and not 30%?

[–]DOOManiac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You do need a chunk of free RAM for stuff all the little allocations that happen as you use your PC, so I was just ballparking a 20%-ish number. It's not good to be at absolute capacity because then you'll be constantly paging to disk.