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Windows 10 Memory Leak
1 large part of your high memory usage (2GB) comes from a high Page table usage.
To see which processes use it, install the Windows Performance Toolkit which is part of the Windows 10 SDK, open a ...
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Is gradually growing swap usage an indicator for a memory leak?
Backing swap storage is a parameter that is consultable.
When it's sufficient then over-commitment of memory is not required.
My previous answer was not the real explanation.
The conclusion is then ...
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How to Disable Runaway UnistackSvcGroup Services?
I solved the problem by setting in the Registry the start value for these two fields from 3 (manual) to 4 (disable):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UnistoreSvc
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Windows 10 Memory Leak - Tags (poolmon) FMic and Irp - Nonpaged pool at 5.7GB
Analyzing the trace in WPA.exe shows that the FMic pool usage comes from RazerCortex.exe which occurs while creating files (KernelBase.dll!CreateFileW).
This also causes the IRP (which stands for I/O ...
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Linux using 15GB of RAM with nothing
htop versions provided by various Linux distributions differ significantly in how they report memory usage.
Look into /proc/meminfo to see which type of memory is growing and is being accounted by ...
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How to Disable Runaway UnistackSvcGroup Services?
The Unistore Services belong to the Windows store. Looks like the store installs App-Updates. In the store option you can turn off the automatic update.
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How do you fix the Microsoft Service "Diagnostic Policy Service" taking up about 4GB memory and about 1 cpu core at 100%?
In a nutshell: You have to stop the process, delete the directory C:\Windows\System32\sru that is used by the process, start the process back up. Once I did this the service now uses about 20 MB ...
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Windows using too much RAM, how to diagnose resource hog
A reason not mentioned above is Hyper-V.
I was able to identify it with the excellent utility RamMap:
The screenshot is from after. Before the "Driver Locked" memory was over 6GB, more than 80% of ...
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How to measure memory usage by certain programs accurately from the command line on Windows?
Why are tasklist and Task Manager giving different measurements?
By default Task Manager displays the memory as "Memory - Private Working Set".
If you choose the column "Memory - Working Set" you ...
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Windows 10 slowly increases RAM usage on 2 different PCs
The cpu usage of the system process is about that Windows thinks you run out of memory and trims working set.
Next use xperf/WPA to see which processes use "Proc" and "Toke" tag. (Proc means a lot ...
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Memory leak with Killer Network Manager (e2400)
So I ended up uninstalling the Killer Network Suite which included the Network Manager and the drivers.
I downloaded beforehand the latest driver (driver only installation) from here and installed it....
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What is using 20GB of memory & why doesn't it show up in task manager?
Lucked out on finding the culprit - ended up uninstalling Logitech Media Server (wasn't even running anymore) and after that, the 20GB slowly dwindled down to 5.5GB.
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How do I handle this HUGE Firefox 83 memory leak?
I'd probably say to use an addon to unload the tabs after an amount of time.
I have been using Auto Tab Discard to "sleep" tabs and reduce memory usage. It will simply unload the tabs, free ...
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Windows 7 RAM usage - Rammap shows "Transition" pages constantly growing under "Process Private"
I'm guessing you have Crowdstrike installed ? https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Falcon-sensor-high-memory-consumption-on-Windows-Hosts
I had the same issue, you will need to downgrade ...
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If memory is not released after shutdown, does it mean it is kernel or driver memory leak?
Doing Windows restart will "flush" the memory. However, I noticed that doing shutdown and startup does not. I know Windows does somekind of kernel memory backup to disk on shutdown to speed ...
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Windows 10 high memory usage by tag "File"
A high "File" usage indicates that programs do a lot of FileIO operations. You have use xperf to trace what causes the usage. Install the Windows Performance Toolkit from the Windows 10 SDK, open a ...
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Explorer.exe memory leak while exhausting one CPU core since 10586.17
The CPU usage comes indirectly from network. The real cause is Exploer tries to generate tooltips from Video file (shell32.dll!CInfoTip::GetInfoTip). This causes the mfmpeg2srcsnk.dll (Media ...
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How does Windows track in-use Memory Locations?
You are correct - every operating system tracks memory use and allocation separately. This is one of it's vital functions. For many reasons it simply wouldn't make sense to pass complete control over ...
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Memory Leak in Windows 7 and I need help troubleshooting
I was able to find a solution to my problem. The driver that allows me to use a third party bluetooth fob was the cause of the memory leak. Configuring my system to only load a single driver, by ...
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How do I limit RAM consumption of a particular executable?
It's possible. You need to create a watchdog process monitor rule to limit the memory usage of the executable.
Just as @wp78de said, setting too low value, may cause the process to "hang" or crash.
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My computer memory System Commit is maxing out
"You may find that this query may not find the appropriate driver because the driver is not loaded from %SYSTEMROOT%\drivers. In this case, run more global searches such as:
findstr /m /l 1tfb *.sys ...
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Very high ram usage, unusually high non-paged pool use by tag Etwr
Both tags are used by Windows to do tracing with Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). The pooltag.txt from Windows Debugger lists them as the following:
EtwR - nt!etw - Etw Registration
EtwD - nt!...
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How to find a memory leak in Windows 7?
click the Mem usage so it will sort the list from high usage to low usage, then look at the top who consuming more RAM.
based on the list you provided, vsserv.exe has the most Mem Usage which ...
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High memory usage not showing up in Task Manager
Okay turns out it was just me being stupid. I have a VM running on my PC and apparently it was starting automatically for whatever reason. I have now disabled it and everything works as it should.
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Windows 10: explorer.exe memory issues
After completing SFC, I concluded that my problem did stem from a third party program.
Using the Windows Performance Tools, I managed to trace it back to calls to the Message Dll, which weren't ...
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Is gradually growing swap usage an indicator for a memory leak?
I think this is because of:
when something has been paged out and later read back in, the kernel will not remove it from the page file until either the file is otherwise full or the page in RAM is ...
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System appears to have been restarted overnight; previously open applications are all closed as if the system was restarted but no signs of restart
So @harrymc’s suggestion to test the RAM using MemTest86 was the answer. One of the memory sticks was bad and that is likely the cause of my problems. The logs around the evening suggested by @daniel-...
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How can I save urls from dead Google Chrome window
If Chrome were still running, you could "Bookmark (all) open pages... Ctrl+Shift+D", even in an incognito window... but the whole point of incognito mode is to not leave any history of browsing, so ...
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Cached ram/ Memory leak
I have a ton of games and heavy work-related programs (BIM, PS, VM etc) but the cached is being made regardless (when I do some light chrome browsing and file management).
It appears you have memory ...
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How to find what is filling up my pagefile
The pagefile may grow to large amounts. 5GB for a pagefile is pretty normal. 64GB is not however.
It is possible for a pagefile to become corrupt, and disabling then re-enabling is one of the methods ...
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