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Why does Windows 10 use 10GB of RAM if you have a total of 32GB?

And how come you cannot pretend to only have 4GB to make it use less?

I don't care about how slow the OS becomes, I care about software not crashing.



Most of the RAM being "used" is available to be reallocated to something more important, should the need arise.


No, because my apps crash = they are not able to allocate memory.

Windows uses 10GB, Chromium uses 10GB and leaks ~1GB per week... then I launch a game and that game crashes if I have left chromium open too long.

The odd thing things crash way before the total 32GB are used. Available memory is still 2-4GB. Probably it can't find a contigous space?




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