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Old Feb 28, 2019 | 5:27 pm
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95MB (average of 40 and 150) would be 14th on my list, sorted by Working set (memory) in Task Manager right now (and 150MB would be 17th of Peak). Overall I'm at 46%.

I never worry about memory utilization, unless it's near 100% (which is hard to do outside of Photoshop/Lightroom compositing/rendering). I'd rather memory be used to cache items I may use again than just sitting there idle. It's very different than CPU or bandwidth utilization.

I seriously doubt 30-50% memory utilization is slowing anything down.

Fwiw, my MBAService is at 274MB and Nortonsecurity.exe at 20MB.
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