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Currently my task manager is showing me that i'm using 50% of my memory. However once i switch to look at it by user accounts it's showing me using about a half of that :

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Which makes me wondering, why exactly is my memory used double of what it's suppose to be.

I know it's not memory leakage (non-paged is only 138mb), so is it just windows 8 itself ?

Devid
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Gray_Hound
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  • Memory-mapped files are not included under an individual process, but will be included in the global memory usage
  • Driver memory is also allocated under global memory and not any individual process.
  • There are many system-level processes (services and other critical things) which are also not allocated to a particular physical user, and will not show up under the users list totals, and these further contribute to the global memory usage being higher than the user memory usage.
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Use RAMMap to see how the RAM is used:

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Read the discription here what the values mean.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2010/08/13/introduction-to-the-new-sysinternals-tool-rammap.aspx

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