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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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Low FPS while using Lumion on Windows
I use a windows laptop with these specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H,
Nvidia GeForce 3050 Ti and
16 Gb RAM
500Gb SSD.
I’m trying to use Lumion, but the FPS is really low (1-5) making it impossible to work ...
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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]
Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster?
I read in Chrome:
Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster? I thought it'd only free up some RAM.
Chrome version 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10.
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Why cannot music files be deleted, moved or renamed if any software is playing them?
While rearranging my music collection, I keep running into the highly frustrating situation where Windows (10) refuses to let met delete, move or rename a file just because I'm having it playing at ...
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How can I know if the speed of RAM is the bottleneck rather than CPU speed?
I have a lot of RAM, 20GB to be precise. However they are not exactly high-end RAMs.Two of them are Kingston 8GB RAMs with 800MHz speed and the other two are some no name brand 2GB RAMs with just ...
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RAM usage is growing up to 96-98% for no reason?
Recently my computer has had an issue involving strange high RAM usage.
Right after starting up, the RAM usage is kind of high (about 48-50% of 16GB) but it's still usable.
After I open some apps for ...
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How to check which services are using too much memory
I have a Windows 10 laptop that constantly has high memory usage, even on idle. I did a selective startup with Microsoft and Intel services only, but the memory usage was only marginally lower than ...
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Why OS(s) take so much memory. Are they fully optimised?
Mac Os eating more than 3.5 GB's of Ram:
I have seen windows and mac os taking about 3-4 GB of ram space even in cleaned PC with no apps opened.
Can't developers further optimise operating systems to ...
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Do programs use less resources when run for longer?
Would a computer program or app use less resources the longer it is kept active? I understand that this might be true, because of caching and the likes, but it feels really odd to me that when running ...
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Windows 7 RAM usage - Rammap shows "Transition" pages constantly growing under "Process Private"
Very recently, I noticed my memory usage would slowly approach 100% with normal computer usage, until eventually the system would crash. I went hunting to see if any particular process(es) were ...
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Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 G532LV RAM upgrade result in stuttering of apps
This week I upgraded my RAM to 32GB with this Kingston pack HX432S20IB2K2/32 on my ROG Strix Scar 15 G532LV . Since this upgrade, a lot of apps are stuttering most of the time(not all of the time and ...
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My computer won't use all 16GB of installed RAM, how can I fix this?
I've been using a PC that I built here and it has been running very well for me for several years. However, a few months back I started to have issues where I find myself running out of RAM. After ...
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Why do operating systems use more RAM for the same processes after you increase the RAM capacity?
Recently, I increased my RAM capacity from 8 GB to 16 GB and I noticed how both Linux and Windows use more RAM for the same processes.
As an example: Before the RAM upgrade I would have Firefox and ...
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Encountering high memory usage on Windows 10
I'm using a laptop with 8GB of ram and am encountering high idle ram usage, when previously I was able to open tabs upon tabs of google Chrome right now about 15 tabs will cause Chrome crash already. ...
