Windows 10 completely out of RAM

Hi,

I'm constantly running out of RAM, which makes the computer grind to a halt. For instance, I'll have as little as 25 MB of RAM available (as calculated by Clean My Mac. The Mac's Activity Monitor shows a little more.)

I do almost all my work on the Windows side, mostly in Office programs. No games or any resource-hogging graphics programs. If I shut down Windows, CleanMyMac will show that I now have about 5 to 7 GB of Ram available. As soon as I fire up Windows -- even with only Outlook and Firefox running -- I can watch the RAM drop and drop and drop. Within a few hours, I have only a few Megabytes of RAM available.

Specs:
iMac 27 inch, late 2012
Processor: 2.9 GHz, Intel Core i5
Memory: 24 GB, 1600 MHz, DDR3
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512MB
Yosemite 10.10.5

Windows 10

Parallels 10

CPUs: 2
Memory allocated to VM: 12 GB (which is within the Green zone)

I have seen a couple of articles online about using Terminal commands to solve problems with Yosemite and Parallels. But I'm not sure if they apply to my situation and set-up.

Any advice? Thanks.

 

Hi @ClickLady please refer to this article for help.

 

Hello Dhruba,
I do know how to change the RAM. As I mentioned above, I have set it at 12 GB for the VM, which is within the green range recommended by Parallels.
The MacCPUID tool shows "64".

Any other suggestions?

 

Hi @ClickLady to change the RAM memory, please refer to this article.

 

Dhruba, I have already said that I know how to change the RAM memory. That is NOT the problem.

The problem is that RAM disappears, for no apparent reason.

 

Hi, please try creating an empty virtual machine and check how it goes. Refer to this article.