High Memory Usage/ Low Memory Popup on Win10 8gb Laptop

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It seems that I've been getting low memory issues ever since upgrading to Win10, but I'm not 100% certain if thats the issue. I thought about uprading to 16gb ram, but I'd like to know if theres some other fix for this. I can't multitask as I used to be able to. Sometimes problems occur just running 8 tabs on chrome and a game(Blade and Soul).

Specs:
http://imgur.com/RYhyDYa

Task Manager:
http://imgur.com/bnvV0EP
http://imgur.com/TIwSYfw
http://imgur.com/HOMvI1J
 
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I think my Windows 10 with all my normal software was around 2 gigabytes used. I think Windows will use more if you have more memory. All caches memory can be cleared as required.

The only computer I have that comes close to what you are seeing is an older Windows 7 system that is never turned off. Over the years, I am sure it still has plenty of crap eating memory.

A newer install of 10 is generally pretty good. You are not anywhere near being out of memory however so if it does not get worse, I guess it should be ok.

I just did a check, but all systems are different. Firefox did no seem as memory hungry or the websites are simple less complex.

Dead idle(fairly new install and it is an insider build)...
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This is kind of surprising.

Windows 10 has been pretty good on memory in my testing(limited since it is just on one system right now.). It has been so good I could run a game that would run out of memory on 7 SP1 without issues, but I am on insider builds so it may be more optimized.

Does the task manager show something eating all your memory.

Can you see if rammap works for you? It can help track down memory hogs(and clear used memory, but that is only a bandaid at best). I had a power dvd service that would slowly eat almost all my memory 16k at a time(this made it kind of hard to find due to the low amount per process).
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/rammap.aspx
 
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Sorry about the late reply.

Your paged pool looks pretty high, but I am not sure what would cause that(could be a bad driver or other software leaking memory).

Did you have a game running, that would explain the process private. Your mapped file is high, but I think it will release that memory if needed(even without it being on standby).
 
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No I wasn't running any games. Here, I'll post screenshots of when I'm running 10 tabs on chrome: http://imgur.com/gallery/CX6ia/new

Is there anything else to check or does the memory usage seem fairly normal to you? Of course I haven't had any issues since upgrading to 16gb ram, but still I'd like to know if there is anything going on that shouldn't be.
 
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No I wasn't running any games. Here, I'll post screenshots of when I'm running 10 tabs on chrome: http://imgur.com/gallery/CX6ia/new

Is there anything else to check or does the memory usage seem fairly normal to you? Of course I haven't had any issues since upgrading to 16gb ram, but still I'd like to know if there is anything going on that shouldn't be.
 
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I think my Windows 10 with all my normal software was around 2 gigabytes used. I think Windows will use more if you have more memory. All caches memory can be cleared as required.

The only computer I have that comes close to what you are seeing is an older Windows 7 system that is never turned off. Over the years, I am sure it still has plenty of crap eating memory.

A newer install of 10 is generally pretty good. You are not anywhere near being out of memory however so if it does not get worse, I guess it should be ok.

I just did a check, but all systems are different. Firefox did no seem as memory hungry or the websites are simple less complex.

Dead idle(fairly new install and it is an insider build)
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FF and 10 tabs. Again the tabs clearly have an effect(Outlook,Overclock.net(thread with some images),Tom's Hardware, Superuser, Anandtech(main page), NCIX.com(sale page), Amazon(main page), TechPowerUp(main page),Digikey(main page),Newegg(main page).
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After closing it settled at 1.8 or so used. I have seen higher, but with games running.
 
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Sounds good, I guess I'll give it a try and do a clean install. Thanks.
Side note: May I ask how you embedded those images. Sorry I'm fairly new on Tom's Hardware, I thought it only allowed links.
 
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Just place your images in img tags.

Code: 
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/240xa10.png[/img]
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Not all image host support hot linking and it is best to try to not use overly large images(the form will scale them so users can see them even if they are larger, it just make take longer to load on a slower connection).

My images are only 128(the 2 task manager ones) color to help make them smaller.

EDIT.
If you do fresh install, please install things slowly over time so you can see if a certain software or driver causes the issue. Clearly if you use a ramdrive you memory use would be higher as well. Video cards will also take memory in some cases.
 
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kinda similar problem but my win 10 thinks it run out of memory when there is 18GB free left, i have 24GB total. Any solutions? I have way too much installed to do a wipe, some license keys worth a bit would get lost too.
 
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I won't, I value my SSD life too much. My previous SSD lasted a year. This one after 2 years with page file disabled is 97% life left. Same SSD models. Only difference is no page file.

If Windows can't use ram without spamming my HDD with pagefile then I'll run it on vm under Linux.... Bloody Microsoft shit.
 
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If you have a lot of ram, pagefile is essentially unused. But it must be present.
Virtual memory subsystem doesn't function normally without it.

Set pagefile to a small size - 500MB initial, 2GB max. And forget about it.
If you're worried about SSD life, then place pagefile on HDD. It doesn't really matter, because it won't be used anyway.
 
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