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mr_lebowski

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4. Those readings are memory that's reserved by the program in case it needs it ...

Reply to OAITW r.2.0 (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2020, 12:03 PM

Apr 2020

A lot of programs are overly-aggressive in that regard. They'll see you have 12GB not allocated and go 'okay lemme reserve 10%' (as a for-instance) even though it's highly unlikely they'd ever need it.

However, Windows should, if you start running out of memory, and programs aren't actively using what they've reserved, begin to take memory away from those programs to use for active processes.

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