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Dvoraky
Aug 03, 2024Iron Contributor
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, ...
AdrianYoung
Mar 31, 2026Copper Contributor
This includes system cache, memory used by drivers and memory reserved for hardware; the process list only shows the memory usage of user processes, so this is normal and there is no need to worry.