Question Invisible Windows 10 Process Eating 97% of RAM

[UBehr]

So, I was trying to use my computer when all of a sudden everything seized. I went to Task Manager to see what the problem is, and it told me that 15.5 of my 15.9 GB of RAM. I sorted by memory to see what the process was, but Firefox is only at about 300, and nothing accounts for the 15 GB. I have no clue what's happening... something is wrong.

 

[Impu7se]

Your using only one stick of ram?

 

[rgd1101]

go to performance tab, then resource monitor to see if it being use as cache

 

[yzahn]

Non-paged pool seems to be the culprit here. Seems to be a bug in a driver eating all your memory.

 

[rgd1101]

run any malware scan?

 

[UBehr]

Sorry about that, unplugged my computer and left for a half hour, I just came back. I had restarted it before but that didn't seem to help. Now, I'm at only 4.0 GB use, but I haven't opened all the programs I did before so there's a possibility it might go wrong again.

Also, this has happened before and it lasted a few days, but eventually just sorta fixed itself. Hoping it'll do that again.

Impu7se
Yes, I am. 1 stick of 16GB.

rgd1101

Not sure if this helps since the problem is temporarily better, but I believe this is the right screen.
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Yes. I have Malwarebytes, and I believe it scanned this morning. I could do it again though if need be.

yzhan
What could I do about that, then?

 

[yzahn]

@UBehr there is an informative page here http://woshub.com/huge-memory-usage-non-paged-pool-windows/