Wednesday, December 19, 2018

What is the cause and disadvantages of high memory usage as time passes on Windows 8.1?

My laptop is used in long time intervals without restarting. The OS tends to use extensive memory (~8GB) as time passes. Below are screenshots of two different states with exactly the same programs are running.


Long Time


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Right After Boot


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It seems that caching causes this situation. I have two questions:



  1. Is this amount of memory usage a bad thing and therefore something to fix?

  2. Why cached amount increases as time passes?


Edit


Here's the Poolmon output as I appear to be using 6GB of RAM in another long session. Anything suspicious here?


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