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Discrepancy between memory in use reported by the task manager and memory used by programs

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Mar 15, 20267308 views
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My task manager As you can see it displays I have 2.27 GB in use, over half of my physical memory (4 GB): My list of processes Processes are ordered by memory As you can see the total amount of memory used by processes is around 1.2 GB. So what's using all that memory? What's really annoying is tha…

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Fix for: Discrepancy between memory in use reported by the task manager and memory used by programs

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It's probably "SuperFetch"(see good posts here,here,here) that's caching memory. A quote: ...And this brings us to the question of what to do with RAM. I have 4GB of main memory in my main desktop machine, and I would find it a total waste if the op…

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