High Physical Memory Usage

[Kody_2]

My Computer has had insanely high physical memory usage the last week or two (as high as 99% usage). I would restart my computer and that would seem to help for a bit but it would continue to do this. I would try to close programs but they would never fully go away and in some cases instances of the same program would be open (stuff that should never have more than one open). I've disabled superfetch think it could be memory leak and it went down but only slightly. Has anyone had this problem or no what it could be?

 

[Colif]

what are specs of the PC?

It might be a driver memory leak, I would download Process explorer and watch the private bytes column.

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under each service, but unlike task manager, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your ram

Private bytes = actual ram usage
Working set = Ram + page file usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click headers and run an av scan from within the program.