Win 8.1 Permament 100% Memory Use

[Paul RR]

the system runs permamently on 100% memory, even in clean boot.

Thought I have memory leak, recorded pool activity with Windows Performance Recorder, dropped into Win Performance Analyzer - Pool Graph Section doesnt show any increasing memory use but EtwB uses 1.3GB. Can't locate the driver.

I've tried troubleshooting, driver updates, poolmon, registry cleaning.

Think started when I've uninstalled Photoshop, Indesign and McAfee at once.

Win 8.1 64 bit 16 GB Ram, i7-4500U, Dell Inspiron 7000

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Any ideas? I've tried everything, still system runs 100% memory.. Any Ideas please?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

What does the Task manager show?

McAfee is probably the culprit.

 

[Paul RR]

The task manager shows constant max memory use witthout any programs using it.

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I've uninstalled McAfee, installed Avast, uninstalled Avast - run without Antivirus now - sill happens.

Now I've got RamDisk using 6GB out of 16Gb - therefore 60% Memory is max as another 40% is RamDisk

Memory:

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[Someone Somewhere]

Looks like you have some kind of malware (or possibly an incomplete uninstall).

Download BitDefender and CCleaner.

 

[johnbl]

are you talking about EtwB memory pool tag?
Event tracing for windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363668(v=vs.85).aspx

i think you have some event tracing going on
start a admin command prompt
use the logman.exe tool to see what logs are running and stop the ones you want

logman.exe query -ets
to show the list
then the
logman.exe stop "yourtestname" -ets

this explains it better:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg697147.aspx

 

[Paul RR]

Looks like you have some kind of malware (or possibly an incomplete uninstall).

Download BitDefender and CCleaner.

CCleaner and Microsoft Windows Malicious Removal Tool are just scanning -
BitDefender's scan did't find anything, but I'd doubt the other two will.

Think its rather unfinished uninstall or memory leak.
I remember after uninstalling McAfee, Photoshop and Indesign & restart my computer froze on desktop, did't respond for some time so I (reckless!) forced shut down. That's how unfinished uninstall may run (Revo Uninstaller Pro did't find anything, I've reinstalled Photoshop and Indesign - should I uninstall it again and Advanced Scan with Revo?)

Or may the drivers be the issue?I've checked drivers with Driver Max, few of them indicated as 'to be updated' but when trying to update windows indicates these are the latest. Besides, I'm not keen on tweaking any of that.

Here's better memory screen:

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Windows Performance Analyzer:

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[Paul RR]

are you talking about EtwB memory pool tag?
Event tracing for windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363668(v=vs.85).aspx

i think you have some event tracing going on
start a admin command prompt
use the logman.exe tool to see what logs are running and stop the ones you want

logman.exe query -ets
to show the list
then the
logman.exe stop "yourtestname" -ets

this explains it better:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg697147.aspx

Thanks for your suggestion johnbl,

if I understood it correctly I can go one by one (here NtfsLog stopped)

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and if memory usage drops I'll know thats the one?

Do I have to restart windows after stopping each? Is it safe to stop them one by one?

Thanks for your help guys

 

[Paul RR]

are you talking about EtwB memory pool tag?
Event tracing for windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363668(v=vs.85).aspx

i think you have some event tracing going on
start a admin command prompt
use the logman.exe tool to see what logs are running and stop the ones you want

logman.exe query -ets
to show the list
then the
logman.exe stop "yourtestname" -ets

this explains it better:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg697147.aspx

Ok so I've stopped all of them, rebooted - Memory use still around max

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just wondering - could system restore do any good?

 

[johnbl]

It might be the quickest way to get back to a good install

are you talking about EtwB memory pool tag?
Event tracing for windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363668(v=vs.85).aspx

i think you have some event tracing going on
start a admin command prompt
use the logman.exe tool to see what logs are running and stop the ones you want

logman.exe query -ets
to show the list
then the
logman.exe stop "yourtestname" -ets

this explains it better:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg697147.aspx

Ok so I've stopped all of them, rebooted - Memory use still around max

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just wondering - could system restore do any good?

 

[Paul RR]

System restore did a job, thanks a lot guys!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Hmm. I think I just gave a BA to the thread starter. Oh well.