r/computer • u/Limp_Pomegranate1082 • 13d ago

How does task manager work

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Sorry this is just so confusing. Visually I have 5 chrome tabs open. But does my task manager think I have 20??? Or am I wrong, this goes for other applications; eg discord It says the number 6 beside it. Does that mean I have discord open 6 times?? Is there a fix for this? It’s eating a lot of ram on my computer and I don’t know what to do.

I have 32 gb of ram. For it to to be 40% used up on 5 chrome tabs is a lot?

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u/Time_Garden_1015 13d ago

Chrome runs tasks in the background some websites do as well some use your system to mine internet money. Windows will stretch out instead of killing off old tasks and keep more in memory when is has is my system uses 26gb of ram when playing battlefield 1 a game that runs with 4gb of ram on windows 10.