3.5GBs "Out of 8" RAM being used. But not enough processes to confirm that.

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Task Manager says 3.5GBs of memory is being used "Out of 8". Resource Monitor says it too. But that is physically impossible based on how many processes are there and how much memory they are using. How would I identify what REALLY uses memory.
 
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64 Windows 7 Ultimate, i7 8GBs.

Using RamMap "Process Private" is using like 3GBs. I don't know what that is.
 
Hello... Disable one of those items at at time. and you might find the Program/App that is doing it.
For your information... everyone of those items is allowed to do what ever it wants on your computer... My Computer Programs Work and Boots into Windows without any of those items enabled.
 

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"Memory allocated for use only by a single process"
"The complement is memory that is shared between two or more processes"
What.
 


Private memory is the sum of all user memory allocated for use by a single process and that process only. This memory is not accessible by other processes because it is not mapped into that process's virtual address space.

Shared memory is user memory allocated to two or more processes. This memory is mapped into the virtual address space of two or more processes, allowing kernel threads belonging to the different processes to share the memory as if those kernel threads belonged to the same process.
 

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Ah I understand better now.
But so there is no easy way to identify why and what exactly is using so much memory for no reason aside from clean booting the computer and trying to detect it manually?.
 


In Task Manager navigate to the Details tab, then right click on a column header and select the following fields
Memory (private working set)
Memory (shared working set)
Commit size

The commit size is the amount of virtual memory that the process has allocated to it. The memory (private working set) is the amount of memory that is currently in physical memory. It is not uncommon for processes to overcommit memory to make sure that sufficient memory is available for the process should the process need it, but this memory will either be either reserved or in the system's swap file until it's needed.
 
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