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Thanks visual studio..

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    The fuck are you building?
    I have a 26 project web application open and running and it's hovering around 13.0/32.2 GB...
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    @kwilliams You'll be surprised, but that was just the startup, after that it calms down to ~15, except when I build it, then it goes up to 23GB
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    That's cached ram. How much do you have installed physically?
    As long as your physical ram is not fully used this is perfectly ok. It just means that windows moved it into virtual memory at some point and has it ready if you need it again.
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    @Kimmax 24GB physical ram - 28.7GB used at picture time (shown in ram diagram too), maxing out at 31.9GB used, thats why windows had to obv. move a good part of that to my hdd. My VS is as vanilla as it gets too, since I didnt even install resharper yet.
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    @JoshBent it doesn't mean 28gb used. It just means that windows moved 28gb of ram to virtual memory _at some point_. That's data that was in ram and windows decided that it could use that space better at the moment, but also thinks that data might be useful at some point, so it doesn't discard it, but moves it to virtual memory.
    It's like stuff you have in your attic. You don't need it accessible right now, but want to store it for later.
    If the graph doesn't show 100% full you're in a perfectly normal situation. If your 24gb are really used (NOT CACHED) you should check your installation. To be clear: Windows does also keep data cached in memory much like in virtual memory, it just doesn't move it to virtual memory because it has enough free space left. Like a spare room in your house. The space is there, so you store stuff in there. If you find it becomes clustered with stuff you don't need in the future you start moving things to the attic. If you need the spare room right away (started a new ram hungry app) you move everything to the attic.
    That's about how it works, shamelessly shortened for explanation.
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    32GB installed in my laptop since yesterday.

    Load ALL the things!
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