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Lol I just checked my RAM usage on my work laptop, literally nothing running besides Teams (and whatever else my work has going on in the background) and it's over 9GB
It's a good thing for the OS to use as much RAM as available. Why pay for ram if you're not going to use it?
It is. But having the RAM running at a constant high load just slows everything down.
Also, teams being so badly optimised that it needs that much to run is just bullshit
Does it? Theoretically it shouldn't slow down just because high ram usage unless you are truly fulling it and RAM needs to constantly free stuff.
A pc with ram running at almost 100% capacity is slow as shit, this isn't a secret....
No it doesn’t. It only slows down when it’s completely full and has to use swap files.
Ok, but we were talking about running Windows on 8GB RAM
Yes, that’s how RAM works. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. Ideally you want to be using almost all of it all the time. Of you’re not, what’s the point of having it? 64GB of ram is pointless if you only ever use 20GB.