8GB memory running at 90% usage with hardly anything running..?

mdzealot · Oct 9, 2014

So I've had an issue with a computer I've recently built. Every now and again things like Google Chrome, iTunes, and even opening folders just slows to shit. When I check my processes tab it tells me my memory is running at around 90% and my disk is almost always at 99-100%. I have no idea why, because it only says that the programs running are using at MOST ~100mb of memory with 0.1mb/s on the disk.

I run windows 8.1 and it says that my 8GB of RAM is registered on the computer.. Anyone know what the cause or a solution for this could be? I have G.Skill Ripjaws, Windows 8.1 64bit, and my HD is a basic Seagate Barricuda.

TheDualshock · Oct 9, 2014

You might have a virus using up all that memory and CPU usage. Check your process list with the task manager for anything suspicious. Run your anti-virus scan and uninstall anything that you would suspect malicious/useless.

vagrantsoul · Oct 9, 2014

on top of what is said about viruses above.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Windows-8-and-8-1-Knowledge-Base/Windows-8-1-Memory-leak-with-Intel-HD-Graphics-on-certain/ta-p/1590274

Trenchcoat · Oct 9, 2014

mdzealot :

I may have misunderstood but If it's at 99-100% capacity, freeing up at least 64 mb of space on the hard drive should eliminate most of your problems.

vinushka · Nov 7, 2014

Download Process Explorer and post a shot of what that is telling you,.

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