Question EXTREMELY High Memory Usage

[Chris9909]

Hi, in the past few weeks I've noticed that Desktop Window Manager (dwm.exe) is using a lot of RAM after a few days without restarting. It sometimes gets to 3 GB. And Non-paged pool showed 2.1 GB, there's obviously a memory leak but I don't know which driver is causing this. After restarting I have 500 MB in Non-paged pool and only 3.1 GB of RAM available!

I have 8 gigs of ram. How can I find out which driver causes the memory leaks?

 

[rgd1101]

screensaver? live wallpaper?

 

[Chris9909]

screensaver? live wallpaper?

No, I only have chrome and discord open and 2.9 GB of ram available.

 

[rgd1101]

go to resource monitor and see what is using all the ram

 

[hotaru.hino]

I have 8 gigs of ram. How can I find out which driver causes the memory leaks?

You can try Process Explorer the next time this shows up.

However, the most likely candidate is the network driver. Network drivers and such are notorious for easily leaking memory.

 

[Chris9909]

go to resource monitor and see what is using all the ram