Question Too much cached memory

[John_000]

Idk why but windows is caching all my ram. If i let my pc on idle, even when i start my pc, and not touch anything. It take 12-13gb of ram in cache. And the pc is very laggy too, is not just dispaying wrong numbers.
Idk how to fix it.

 

[Brian Boru]

Look in your Power Management settings.
'Put computer to sleep' should be set to a 'reasonable' interval—eg 1 hour.

In Advanced Power settings:
Change the power plan to 'High performance'.
'Turn off Hard Disk after' should not be 1 minute, mine is 20 minutes.
Check the settings under 'Sleep' section—turn off 'Allow hybrid sleep'; 'Sleep after' and 'Hibernate after' should be 'reasonable, eg an hour or more.

It sounds like 'hibernation' behavior, where Windows copies RAM contents to disk to enable very quick resumption.

How much free space is available on your system disk? Windows needs extra free space to do its hidden work comfortably.

 

[John_000]

Did all the above

Look in your Power Management settings.
'Put computer to sleep' should be set to a 'reasonable' interval—eg 1 hour.

In Advanced Power settings:
Change the power plan to 'High performance'.
'Turn off Hard Disk after' should not be 1 minute, mine is 20 minutes.
Check the settings under 'Sleep' section—turn off 'Allow hybrid sleep'; 'Sleep after' and 'Hibernate after' should be 'reasonable, eg an hour or more.

It sounds like 'hibernation' behavior, where Windows copies RAM contents to disk to enable very quick resumption.

How much free space is available on your system disk? Windows needs extra free space to do its hidden work comfortably.

Did all the above. Nothing changed, after one hour sitting at almost 10 gb cached.
And yeah, i have 700gb left on the disk.

 

[Brian Boru]

Nothing changed

Bummer

Next possibility is that 'Disk Write Caching' is malfunctioning. This is where data is temp stored in RAM as a staging area before being written to disk—it's to boost performance. Maybe your RAM is not completing the 'write to disk' part of the operation properly. Try this:

In Device Manager expand the Disk Drives section. Double click your HD and select the Policies tab. Untick the box for 'Enable write caching…'

I hope that's it, I don't expect to come up with any further suggestions.

 

[John_000]

Did it. No luck, infortunatly... 😞
The componests are new and i just instaled windows 2 months. So idk

 

[Brian Boru]

Just to be sure, since I forgot to say it:
You need to reboot before changes in both my posts would come into effect.

That's all I got, let's hope an expert drops by.

 

[John_000]

Just to be sure, since I forgot to say it:
You need to reboot before changes in both my posts would come into effect.

Yep, i did reboot everytime.
An expert sure will be nice to give a helping hand 😞