Windows 7 having high physical memory usage, how to reduce it

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  1. This is a pro active question, right now I am not facing any problem, thou it may create a problem anytime
    which I just can't afford.

  2. I am using VMware® Workstation – version – 8.0.1 build-528992

  3. I am also running one VM on it. details of that VM are listed below:
    DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
    DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
    DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
    DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"
    —Hardware Assigned to VM:
    CPU : 2
    Cores per CPU : 2
    RAM : 3 GB
    Virtual HDD : 20 GB

  4. For physical Machine info Please go through below info and Screenshot.
    C Drive : Total 160 GB / Used 84 GB / Free 76 GB
    D Drive : Total 728 GB / Used 457 GB / Free 271 GB

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  1. Screenshot of Task Manager Performance:

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  1. Screenshot of Task Manager Processes:
    Processes are sort as per the memory usage.

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  1. Antivirus Version:
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Let me know if you need any further help from my side and Please help me resolve the high physical memory uasage issue. Thanks in advance.

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Best Answer

Windows assumes that physical memory has no cost associated with using it. It makes no effort whatsoever to make physical memory free because this makes no sense. If it makes physical memory free, only one of two things can happen:

  1. That memory isn't used any time soon. In this case, the effort of making it free was wasted.

  2. That memory is used soon. In this case, the effort of making it free was harmful, as now the system simply has to undo that work to use the memory.

Modern operating systems only make physical memory free if they have absolutely no other possible choice.

If you're thinking "I need memory free now so I can use it later", forget it. You can use memory now and use it later. There's no painful tradeoff that you have to make here.

Everything is fine.

If you want a more detailed understanding of how physical memory is being used on your system, try RAMMap.

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