After effects only using 6% ram

Installed RAM: 23.99 GB
Current RAM Usage: 2.37 GB
Allowed RAM Usage: 19.99 GB
Process ID
Application Name
Min Needed Memory
Max Usable Memory
Max Allowed Memory
Current Memory
Current Priority
3524
aeselflink
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.23
3752
After Effects
0.40
23.99
19.99
1.23
1 - High
3868
aeselflink
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.22
6504
aeselflink
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.23
7372
aeselflink
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.23
7880
aeselflink
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.23
5 hard drives:
1- operating system and softwear
2- Raid 0 - footage and projects.
3- Raid 0- used to render projects out to.
(Simply Raid 0, I dont have a controller or anything like that, can't afford)
Ever since the first time I used after effects, when I try to pre-render anything it only uses 6% of ram, so it takes forever to render out anything. One day it did say 46% used and that time it finished real fast. How can I fix this? to use more when I render out?
Thanks for the help

Nothing to fix because nothing is broken. AE will only use what it needs. If it renders slow or even reverts to single core rendering, it means there are effects or settings that trigger this behavior because they are incompatible with MP rendering. Likewise, some effects are simply more CPU intense, but never use a lot of RAM while the otehr day the situation may be reversed...
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Online:
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