My system consists of a Ryzen 7 5700g cpu, on a MSI B550 motherboard with 32 Gb ram. Zorin 17.2 & Home Dir are on the same NVME drive in the primary slot & media storage is on a 3.5" sata Hhd.
Regardless of what I doing, whether I'm converting video files with handbrake, streaming a movie, surfing the net, or just writing a letter in Only Office.
My pc always uses less than 4 Gb of the available 32Gb of Ram. Yet the cpu will run anywhere between 20%-90% usage on all cores.
Is this abnormal? & if not, What are the possible cause of this?
Tnx in advance for any assistance or advice given.
Kind Regards
Do You have any Performance Issues? I mean freezing Programs, dying Programs, something like that. Or do your System run and simply use not much RAM?
In common depending of Your Usage, it can be that You don't need much RAM. Streaming, Surfing or writing a Letter should use much RAM. converting Video Files I don't know. Do You play Games? If yes, do they run smoothly?
Zenzen.
I can't monitor cpu usage during start up, (i don't know how to, would be a better statement). When the pc is doing nothing there is only 1%-2% cpu usage & zero ram usage. I suspect that is caused by the system monitor running.
I checked the Bios before start up, The Bios recognises the 32Gb DDR4 ram but not the correct speed. Ram is 4000 mhz & bios says it's 2600 mhz
Ponce-De-Leon,
Performance issues?
Programs aren't freezing as such, though I've had trouble starting Only Office a couple of times. It would only start by accessing the actual file I intended to edit & not the program. But once it's open, it works fine.
I'm not much of a gamer but give me a day or two & I'll get back to you on that.
I just think it's a little unusual that cpu usage would be fluctuating when the pc is doing a tasks. While ram usage is constant, non fluctuating & well below the available ram.
G'Day Guys,
I'm Back. Sorry about dropping off the face of the earth, got called out for remote location work.
OK,
I've updated Bios to latest version.
I checked the XMP Profile & it's activated. It's set to 4000 mhz but motherboard recognises ram as 2666 mhz.
Zenzen,
I'm not sure if I've done this right, Try link for Pastebin below. If it requests password it's my username here, but lowercase k.
Now it works This definitely shows two memory sticks available. This is where @Ponce-De-Leon might have a better idea, but I would suggest disabling the XMP profiles for now to see if that makes any difference.
Okay, You have 4 RAM Banks. Did You check that the RAM Bars are in the correct Banks? Because there is an Order where the RAM Bars have to put in. this should stand in Your Manual for the Board.
Another Point: You could check on the Manufactorer's Website if Your specific RAM is on the Vendor's List. It should work even when it isn't on it, but it is a bit more Gambling when it isn't. and You should check how much RAM Speed Your Board and Your CPU are supporting.
This definitely shows two memory sticks available. This is where