I have recently built a new PC, that has been running great but I have noticed abnormally high memory usage. With a couple of relatively lightweight programs running, it is up to 14 GB when the most I can see in Task Manager is 1,5 GB and the total sum isn't anywhere near those 14 GB.
Screenshot from task manager:
I have done some research and I think this might be due to a driver leak, but I am not really sure. This is the non-paged pool sorted by bytes:
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The memory usage usually goes up right after startup, but I couldn't find any of the programs that start automatically causing the high usage due to a leak.
Any advice would be appreciated as I don't know how to fix this. I have 32 GB RAM in my system so it isn't a big problem, but 14 GB used with just a browser and some lightweight programs open does seem to be a bit much.
It could also potentially be a virus but I doubt it since I am really careful regarding downloads and other programs.