Questions tagged [memory-leaks]
Unaccountable increases in consumption of system memory that can only be stopped by restarting the application or computer.
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Windows 10, 'System' process taking massive amounts of RAM
Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my system has been consuming RAM excessively
I've been reading a bit and determined it's likely a driver leaking memory. So I got myself the Windows Driver Kit and ...
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Windows using too much RAM, how to diagnose resource hog
I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. ...
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How to find source of memory leak in Windows 7?
I've got a Windows 7 machine that keeps running low in RAM. I can see the free RAM going down over a few hours until the point the machine becomes unresponsive. I've checked the process list and none ...
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Why/how is svchost.exe using 6.5GB of memory?
What is going on here? I have almost nothing running.
By almost nothing, I mean Firefox, and some background network applications that are entirely passive and would never use this much memory.
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Windows 10 Memory Leak
I've had a memory leak issue with Windows 10 for about a year now, but I really want to fix this now as it is having a sizable impact on my work.
As you can see from the picture below, I have 8GB of ...
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Mac OS X: What is using my 'active' memory?
I'm using a recent MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM and after a few hours of using it at work I notice the amount of 'active' memory growing and growing.
Whenever I reboot my Mac, everything looks fine ...
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Memory leak in Google Chrome
As a developer it is very common for me to have 2-3 different IDE's open, 10-15 google chrome windows which can hold up to 200 open tabs (I know I get out of hand some times), Photoshop, couple ...
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Why does Desktop Window Manager leak memory or even crash?
My Desktop Window Manager memory usage keeps spiking and causing it to disable Aero, saying it ran out of allowed memory. DWM restarts and comes back up fine when I kill its process. Why is this ...
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What could possibly cause explorer to "leak" memory?
I have been experiencing this problem for a while now. I'm on Windows 10 v1909. Whenever I have an Explorer window open, the memory (here indicated in private bytes - I know that doesn't reflect every ...
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Windows 10 slowly increases RAM usage on 2 different PCs
I have 2 computers with Windows 10:
PC:
Windows 10 Education 1803 (April Update)
Intel Core i5 8400
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 2400
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 3GT OC, 3GB GDDR5
MSI Z370 ...
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Windows 10 Memory Leak ("Proc") and ("Job")
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I noticed that I've got a problem as when i kept the PC running for a set period of time, the RAM usage got extremely high for no reason. I found out it was a memory leak. The task manager wasn'...
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Massive Memory Leaks?
I seem to have huge memory leaks, which are confusing me.
I'm running fusion 3.1 / Windows 7 on Snow Leopard. It's a clean install with all upgrades applied. I've given fusion 8GB on a 14GB machine.
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Very high ram usage, unusually high non-paged pool use by tag Etwr
I have been running out of RAM as of late and have narrowed down that something is leaking in the non-paged pool. My non-paged pool is almost 4GB. In addition to that, the working set of my paged pool ...
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Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10
So a program I was running just crashed because it was out of memory, and I was like, that's weird, because the only other programs I have running is task manager and chrome. So I open resource ...
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svchost.exe high memory usage - wuauserv
I'm running Windows 7, and I've been experiencing high memory usage from one of my svchost.exe processes.
Services under that particular process are BITS, EAPHost, IKEEXT, LanmanServer, MMCSS, ...
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Is there a way to see GPU System Memory broken down process-by-process?
I am trying to figure out which app in my system is responsible for the memory spikes (note that the spikes are seen on GPU tab).
Here's a question that spawned this one.
EDIT To show System ...
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batch file eats cpu and RAM using only echo ^?
tldr: ran a batch file with only 1 line in it: echo ^ . This file eats 70-100% of one core and approx. 1k RAM a second...???
While answering this question, I came across some odd behavior in Windows ...
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Windows 10 Memory Leak - Tags (poolmon) FMic and Irp - Nonpaged pool at 5.7GB
So I've been noticing extremely high memory usage lately. With just Chrome with 20 tabs open, I get 13.5 / 16GB of my memory being used. Task manager reports that Chrome only uses about 3GB of memory. ...
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Windows 10 memory leaking
Hi i have this problem for quite some time and I'm unable to solve it.
First i noticed this, when windows start showing me error messages "Your computer is low on memory" when usually with the same ...
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Windows 8.1 - Non paged Pool - ATI 6950 Memory Leak
I've seen a couple of questions regarding this issue, but there hasn't been any responses that has solved my problems so I will ask again and list what I've done to resolve the issue.
Thanks in ...
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Nonpaged Pool Leak - NDnd Tag - Windows 8.1 64-bit
I have a huge memory leak with the tag "NDnd", which eventually occupies my whole ram (8GB).
Findstr shows me, that hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, swapfile.sys or ndis.sys could be the problem.
I'm ...
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Non-paged pool Proc tag memory leak in Windows 11?
I have been looking for an answer to this all over the internet, but I am unable to get any concrete answers. I seem to have a non-paged pool memory leak within the Proc tag that is made worse by ...
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Windows 8.1 memory leak which is invisible in process monitor and poolmon
After trying around for days, googling about everything and trying a lot I am left clueless.
I have a Razer 2013 Blade Pro with 8GB ram.
I have 30 GB allocated for additional virtual ram.
My system ...
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How to decrease memory leaks for PAL and CM31 tags?
I have a memory leak as the picture below. Their tags are CM31 and PAL.
By using command prompt I found an upgrade for xHCIPort.sys (it was intel proset wireless software) and using Intel's program ...
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Leak of RAM in Windows 7 (available 767MB of 2GB)
After system crash (Win 7) there are only 767 mb available of 2gb.
I had this problem several times, but system restore and several reboots helpes me, but now i don't know what to do. Any ideas? ...
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How do I diagnose memory usage/leaks of drivers?
I use Process Explorer for typical day-to-day process management, and I'm aware of Poolmon for monitoring pool leaks. Are there similar tools available for examining memory usage of drivers, and how ...
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Persistent massive non-paged pool
Right, I've had to do this to remove a memory leak problem from the LAN driver + windows 8.1 which showed itself when I download things from steam.
Now I have played Alien: Isolation and had a very ...
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What is using 20GB of memory & why doesn't it show up in task manager?
Overnight, some unknown memory leak clogged up 20GB/24GB on my system. I've closed everything yet the leak persists. Running latest Windows 10.
How can I track down what is causing it?
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