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Is the Total RAM Usage Percentage Higher Than the Sum of Individual Programs?
Why is there a discrepancy between the percentage of memory usage indicated in the column title and the total memory usage of individual programs listed in the column? For instance, in Task Manager, why does the column title show 82% of RAM usage when the combined memory usage of all programs listed does not add up to 82%?
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This is because the memory percentage shown in Task Manager includes system cache, memory used by drivers and memory reserved for hardware, whereas the process list only displays the memory usage of user processes.
