your laptop is mostly idle and has 70C IN IDLE temp with 82% mem load? Nope. Most things not OK. And if you are on 8gb ram its one of the reason it’s not OK.
Idle? its 30% load and for laptop 70 degrees makes sense. As long as max temp under 100% load doesn’t go over 90-95ish then its okay.
And windows caches a lot of things to make it run faster so 82% mem load makes sense. 16gb is completely fine for 90% of things as i have 16gb and the only time i ever max out my memory is when video editing or playing cities skylines, which are extremely ram intensive.
I think it looks fine. It does seem Windows 11 seems to use most of your ram when even doing light tasks, but if you do something more demanding like start a Zoom call and open PDFs for the meeting, it reallocates the ram with the new needs.
That isn’t a bad thing is it?
so windows is progressively just becoming linux ?
Yep, I have 32 on both laptop and desktop and average usage even with no apps open is 10 GB. But as soon as I start doing memory demanding stuff, like running WSL, VS Code and 4 VMs at the same time (don’t ask), after closing the app and returning to the original conditions the usage is 2-3 GB.
Some times it frees too much, like that time I accidentally tried to use 45 GB of memory and it let me. Task manager was running of the ssd and the performance of even just moving the mouse tanked, because basically everything OS got moved to the “swap” memory.
Microsoft’s official stance is that unused RAM is wasted RAM… I guess.
That is just about every kernels stance on ram. Why have it to not use it?
A better indication of “not enough memory” is not used RAM but used swap/page file.
Right. I don’t understand why people are frustrated by high RAM utilization by the system. It would be one thing if it was a program that’s really just a poorly optimized rats nest of code. It’s the OS preloading and caching things to be a more responsive system. It’s not even like the high baseline utilization affects usability or speed of the device negatively anyway. When more memory is required by an app, the system frees up what it was reserving and gives it up. There’s no hiccup.
Like you said, the only indication that you are actually running out of memory is if you have page/swap utilization. Microsoft is also right, unused RAM is wasted RAM. Having RAM and being upset that the system is actually taking advantage of it is like being upset that you bought a shelf and now it’s got lots of things on it. You bought the fucking shelf to put things on it LOL. The purpose of RAM is to be occupied. I don’t understand the obsession with free memory I’ve seen recently online. Like people get upset when their CPU or GPU isn’t being fully utilized, and yet when their memory does the same thing it’s a problem… despite it only being done that way to benefit of the user.
Debloat windows, buy a 2x8gb ram kit 3200mhz.
80% of ram while mostly doing nothing is really bad. My debloated win 11, at idle, use 2gb of ram and I surpass 8gb of ram usage only when I am playing games.
You have performance loss if you play game, only have 8gb ram and windows is not debloted.
that looks like the temps of my 7 year old i3 laptop running with 30+ tabs in the chrome
More RAM!!!
Shit ain’t idle. Working.
Task manager is a shitbox.
Hwinfo. RTSS with it if u want ingame overlay
You have a lot of crap in the background. Ms office, goggle stuff, samsung stuff etc. Kill that and and it’ll be better
Most laptops have super easy RAM upgrades, just open it up and install a new kit, assuming the ram isn’t soldered. What’s your laptop model?
Windows is smart enough to allocate ram where it needs, but windows 11 is a giant ram hog for no reason. You will get performance drops, stutters, and other issues if you run out of RAM.
I’ve got the Acer Aspire A515-56. I don’t open demanding apps more than running discord, youtube (edge), some pdf program and other simple apps. U think if i install windows 10 it would improve? at this point idc about the more aesthetic lol.
i’ll definitely buy a 16 ram these days
Yes, it is called “non-volunteer computing”. Your windows 11 was probably doing some Excel calculations for an instance of Office 360 running in Timbuktu