Ram usage from 30% to 70% idle

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AlleLalle

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I have recently reinstalled windows completely and after having everything installed my ram useage was fine, around 30% during idle but one day it was up to 60-70% during idle after restarting the system and everything without me having downloaded anything or so. After running a full system scan in norton the memory usage went down for some reason to 30% again but after a few days it went up again. CCcleaner doesnt help.
 
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KyleADunn

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Is there an automatic backup set to run?
Do you have an anti-virus software that could be scheduled to run?
In task manager, what is eating up all the RAM?
 
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geofelt

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You are misinterpreting ram usage.
Windows will keep code in ram in anticipation of instant reuse.
It is normal to keep what you have recently used around.
The longer since the last cold boot, the more you should see.

The metric for problematic ram overuse will be found in high hard fault page rates.
Anything near 1 per second deserves a closer look.
 
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AlleLalle

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No scheduled autimatic backups or anti virus software scheduled to run. In task manager its mostly svchost taking up all the ram, but I have tried stopping the windows update procces, which hasnt helped at all.
 
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geofelt

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When ram is full, windows swaps out less used pages to the page file.
That is ok, it is asynchronous.
But, when an app needs that page and it is not in ram, you get a hard page fault and the cpu waits while the page is swapped back in.
Any such activity is a performance killer.
You find hard page fault rates in the performance section of taskmanager.

Also, I think that windows will run an app daily to see if any updates are needed. It runs in the background and is not ram heavy so it should not impact anything.
 
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AlleLalle

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There actually is a problem, because now when playing GTA V, the game slows down because the ram gets full when I have this problem and it makes everything lag so badly :(
 
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geofelt

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What are all the specs of your pc?
cpu/motherboard, hard drive, graphics card, psu ...etc?

If you truly have a shortage of ram, and I somewhat doubt that with 8gb, they your only real solution is to buy a 16gb kit.
Do not count on adding 8gb, it may not be compatible.
Go to the task manager and see what your hard fault page rate is.
More than 1/second and you may have a ram shortage.
If it is near zero, probably not.

Possibly, you have some software that is not releasing ram.
You might want to abandon Norton security for something lighter; Microsoft security essentials is low overhead and free.
 
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AlleLalle

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Also, it seems like my hard fault page rate jumps above 100/s every second or so.
My memory used to be down at 30% but one day suddenly jumped up for some reason.
 
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