For years now, my ram usage has been constantly going up, regardless of if I have apps on or not. When I first got my laptop, with everything closed it had 30% ram usage. Nowadays, with everything closed it’s around 55%-60%, with no real processes going on. When any application is on, it goes up to 85-90%, with games 93% or up.

Once it reaches above 93% it goes into a mega slow mode on my laptop where it takes minute for things to unfreeze and I have to wait around 3 minutes after closing a game to regain some semblance of speed on my laptop. I’m not sure what’s going on and it’s just been getting worse over the years.

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Any advice? (I counted, when I have discord + opera + steam on it adds 2.2 gb in active process - I have a total of 8 gb of ram. Where is the rest of the ram being used? If 55% is the baseline, where are the 4,4 gbs going??