Question All 64GB Memory Used Up After a Week

[kawzman]

Ever since upgrading to Win11 Home 64 Bit, after ~1 week, all 64GB of my memory will be used.

The Resource Monitor Processes section reports the Used Physical Memory in the upper 90s% but the Commit column totals much lower than 64GB. Is this normal? This seems to indicate not all of the processes and how much memory they’re using aren’t being reported. I was thinking about using RAMMap and ProcessExplorer to dig further for answers.

The Physical Memory section reports nearly all 64GB shaded green as “In Use”. The Total and Installed in that section correctly report ~64GB.

Rebooting will free up most of the memory with the Processes section reporting the Used Physical Memory near 16% and the Physical Memory section reports nearly ~11GB shaded green as “In Use”.

Any suggestions and comments with how to tackle this issue would be appreciated. Thanks as always.

ASRock X570 Taichi
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
CORSAIR Hydro Series, H100i RGB PLATINUM
G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 64GB, 4x16GB
MSI GeForce RTX 3080 GAMING Z TRIO 10G LHR
Samsung 990 Pro NVMe 4.0 SSD, 1TB
Sabrent Rocket NVMe 4.0 SSD, 1TB
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G3

 

[punkncat]

How many programs/processes are you running at once?
Have you looked in the 'startup' tab in Task Manager to see is loading on start?

 

[hotaru.hino]

When this conditions happens again, close all the programs you have running. If RAM usage basically collapses to spitting distance of what's used on boot, one of your apps is leaking memory.

If memory consumption does not drop that much, then:

• You have a leaky driver
• If you have a virtual machine application, check to make sure it's actually not running anything
• You have malware (unlikely, but possible)