Hello everyone,
I'm currently battling a problem with my computer's RAM. I have 32 GB of RAM installed and the last few days or so it has been obscenely high memory usage. As soon as I reboot the computer and the desktop is loaded I immediately open task manager and it shows 38 - 40% memory used but refuses to show what is using that memory.
In task manager, this is sorted by 'Memory':
https://i.imgur.com/oZkf4DU.png
This is the performance tab:
https://i.imgur.com/pl6c48e.png
A friend recommended checking into the RAMMap application, and this is what I see here:
https://i.imgur.com/4PmvH0F.png
It seems whatever this nonpaged pool section is, is eating almost 10 GB of RAM! From what I've read online that area is driver related and shouldn't be exceeding even 1 - 2 GB at the very most.
Further research led to me downloading and installing visual studio community 2017 so that I could then install the windows tool kits for Windows 10, to access this program called poolmon.exe
I have run that application and it shows a bluescreen with probably a hundred or more pages of data and I don't understand a single bit of it, more specifically, how I can use it to identify what is sucking all this memory out of nowhere suddenly. This machine is several years old and has never had this problem so this is a very new thing to just suddenly start happening.
Here is a screenshot of the top of the poolmon.exe screen:
https://i.imgur.com/e4nA8F1.png
Please help me figure this out! Thank you for your time.
I'm currently battling a problem with my computer's RAM. I have 32 GB of RAM installed and the last few days or so it has been obscenely high memory usage. As soon as I reboot the computer and the desktop is loaded I immediately open task manager and it shows 38 - 40% memory used but refuses to show what is using that memory.
In task manager, this is sorted by 'Memory':
https://i.imgur.com/oZkf4DU.png
This is the performance tab:
https://i.imgur.com/pl6c48e.png
A friend recommended checking into the RAMMap application, and this is what I see here:
https://i.imgur.com/4PmvH0F.png
It seems whatever this nonpaged pool section is, is eating almost 10 GB of RAM! From what I've read online that area is driver related and shouldn't be exceeding even 1 - 2 GB at the very most.
Further research led to me downloading and installing visual studio community 2017 so that I could then install the windows tool kits for Windows 10, to access this program called poolmon.exe
I have run that application and it shows a bluescreen with probably a hundred or more pages of data and I don't understand a single bit of it, more specifically, how I can use it to identify what is sucking all this memory out of nowhere suddenly. This machine is several years old and has never had this problem so this is a very new thing to just suddenly start happening.
Here is a screenshot of the top of the poolmon.exe screen:
https://i.imgur.com/e4nA8F1.png
Please help me figure this out! Thank you for your time.