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Windows page table memory leak - how to debug?
After running for just a single day, the 32GB system RAM on my Windows machine would become full, but without any process using significant memory. Task manager shows that processes under my user took ...
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GRUB: Windows Memory Diagnostic
I've been trying to add the "Windows Memory Diagnostic" utility to my GRUB bootloader. I have not had any luck, though. Every script I've tried writing has resulted in an error message, with ...
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100% of RAM used despite little usage in Windows 11
I have am running Windows 11 on a cleanly-installed computer with 32GB RAM. Both Resource Monitor and Task Manager report that 100% of my memory is used, although if you sum the memory committed by ...
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Unknown Memory Hog in Windows 11
I have an HP Omen gaming laptop that recently struggles with memory use hitting close to 100% when playing. Tried restarting to get a fresh picture, checked TaskManager and RamMap and there's lots of ...
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part of ram used by hidden processes in Windows
after some time some hidden processes are using my ram. They are not shown nor in process hacker, nor in system informer.
On attached screenshot on bottom right it shows that 25GB is used in total, ...
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Software on Windows crashing/OOMing with RAM well below 100%
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th gen, 2016), and lately while working I've been noticing Chrome and PyCharm intermittently crashing.
Usually it seems like like a CPU spike or something causes ...
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Upper limit of the number of tabs that Onetabs supports
Windows 11
Chrome Version 124.0.6367.202 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Onetab Version 1.84
Currently at 9471 tabs
What determines the upper limit of tabs that Onetab supports before creating problems (...
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Windows 10 High RAM usage with no process used until a BSOD
Similar to the issue here, I'm facing a very high RAM usage in Windows 10 after a recent update (it's been over 30 days so I can't rollback).
My memory constantly sits at 80%
Some people have said ...
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How to identify a driver causing every exited process to become a zombie, polluting page table and active unused memory?
I have a pretty new Windows 11 Pro installation, it has about a week. I noticed that my RAM usage is constantly going up. It was concerned because procexp readouts did not match the total used RAM ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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How to prevent windows from using all RAM when running the system for an extended period of time?
I own two up to date computers with windows 10, with fairly different hardware, on both of them, windows fills the ram (99-100%) over time, usually after a month of run time.
The first uses a hard ...
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My Windows Host machine has almost constantly above 95% CPU utilization. How to reduce the high CPU utilisation?
I have a host windows machine with the following details (72 GB RAM, other resources:
Host
: Socket - 1,
Cores - 4,
Logical Processors - 4
I have set up three hyper-v virtual machines on this host ...
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why glassfish crashs randomely
I'm using oracle-glassfish3.1.2 on java 1.7 (I know these technology is a little dated) , when I start the server I use the verbose option: asadmin start-domain --verbose;
I've also used asadmin to ...
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RAM stick intalled, recognized by some tools, but windows still cant use it
I recently bought a new pc with 2x16 GB Velvet RAM sticks (5600mhz/DDR5).
Both are installed and powered up, according to Cpu-z and HWMonitor, as shown bellow:
However, Windows is only acessing 16 GB:...
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How to track down why 3-4GB of memory being used up as soon as the PC starts?
When I try to do findstr on these non page drives, I either get a really large error strain, or nothing.
Even when all the applications are closed, I still see 3-4 gigs of RAM being used.
This is a ...
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Getting memory / driver related BSOD while memory is supposedly intact
Good day everyone,
I finally decided to search for some help on here after struggling with blue screens multiple times a day for almost half a year now. The blue screens codes I come across are:
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How to clear the RAM without restart in Windows 11 properly?
After using the windows 11 continuously for several days, the operating system had some(12 GB) of RAM in use instead of the 3 GB even all the programs were closed.
Is there a way(with perhaps the ...
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Could interrupting a SQL query that was taking too long lead to a decrease in disk space?
For a personal data analysis project, I was trying to find the most frequent 3 products that were being sold together by doing a self join (twice).
As the query was taking over 15 mins and the laptop ...
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High memory usage after copying 1 million small files (Win10 x64)
I made a small C++ program that copies a small 2.7KB png file 1 million times. This is how my memory looks before the copy:
And this is how it looks after the copy program finished:
I waited a few ...
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Win 11: Pagefile disabled but virtual memory still exists
On Windows 11 system, I disabled pagefile. Subsequently, 'Performance Options' shows 'Total paging file size for all drives: 0MB'. However, the virtual memory is still not set to zero and affects the ...
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Brand new Windows 11 computer crashing apps constantly
Last few weeks (and it slowly got worse as time went on), I have been getting application crashes/closes, weird seemingly memory related errors, a couple BSoDs, and Nvidia driver CRC errors.
All ...
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etwr/etwd Extremely High Memory Usage
Posted this on stackoverflow and was advised to post here for better help.
I have been using a program that I made that is built on .NET 6 and does some TCP and SQL related operations to put it simply....
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What does it mean when Windows reports high commit usage for memory, but also does not report it committed to processes running on the system?
To clarify the question.
Task manager as well as process informer report high committed amount of memory, much higher than actual physical ram usage, typically anywhere from 1.5x to 2.5x the physical ...
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My computer keeps crashing BSOD Memory management but rams sticks are good
Around a year ago I built my first PC, multiple parts have been added throughout this elapsed time (AIO, different fans, and peripherals). Nonetheless, lately I have been having issues with BSOD more ...
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RamMap processes private memory doesn't add up
The summary tab shows 27 GB used:
But processes don't add up to this amount:
What's using memory?
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uwfmgr does not function in 32bit system
I have to Switch from fbwfmgr to uwfmgr (because of switching from Windows XP to Windows 10) but every time when I do some Change so that uwfmgr has to reset it the Computer "Crashes" and I ...
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Low FPS while using Lumion on Windows
I use a windows laptop with these specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H,
Nvidia GeForce 3050 Ti and
16 Gb RAM
500Gb SSD.
I’m trying to use Lumion, but the FPS is really low (1-5) making it impossible to work ...
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Why am I using 2.6gb of memory even though no apps are on [duplicate]
I tried everything to make it go down by following Youtube videos, suggestions on google, etc, but it still doesn't work. Only thing that managed to work was downloading Wise Memory Optimizer which ...
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When is Shared Graphics Memory best utilized in real world use? [closed]
Say for example, I have a dedicated GPU with 2GB of VRAM and it has 8GB of shared memory from my 16GB system ram. Does that 8GB really have any influence at all when it comes to performance or what ...
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Bluescreen after RAM upgrading (same brand, only different MHz and CL)
I recently added the following RAM to my setting and had one blue screen:
2 x 32 GB FURY Beast DDR5 5600 MHz CL 40
My setting setting (running over a year without a single problem):
ASUS ROG Z690 ...
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Why does my Windows install use over twice as much RAM as my open processes? (8+ GB used) [duplicate]
Something I've noticed on many completely different computers I've owned and across Windows 10 and 11 is that my RAM usage never seems to really add up to what's actually being used. It's never really ...
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Custom built PC takes 10 minutes to boot up
I built a music production rig about 3 years ago. The specs are:
Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600
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Browser windows in the background are not getting RAM/CPU to work properly
I use an extension I developed to automate some tasks on certain websites. I need to run at least 40 browsers with the automation extension enabled.
Now the problem is only the browser thats open in ...
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How to decrease a memory in paged pool that consumed by CM31 tag?
My RAM disappears for unknown tasks. I have known that my Paged pool has grown to 582 MB. Task manager does not show which process has consumed this RAM. Poolmon: CM31 = 338 MB, MmSt = 42, CM25 = 33, ...
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What happens when you hibernate with more memory than your SSD? [duplicate]
Lets say if you have 16 Gigabytes of RAM and hibernate when you have an 8 Gigabyte SSD. Since hibernation dumps the ram contents to the SSD, what would happen?
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Memory usage Task Manager
Task Manager is stuck in it's performance measurements. It won't update from the point I get when I boot it up:
In addition to that Youtube video's break due to exceeding memory. So that's why I'm ...
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Is it possible to make the operating system itself use less RAM? [duplicate]
In the same system with Windows installed, if I insert only 2GB RAM card in the motherboard, Windows uses about 500MB right after boot, but if I install 16GB of RAM in the motherboard and reboot, ...
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Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster?
I read in Chrome:
Why does Chrome's memory saver make Chrome faster? I thought it'd only free up some RAM.
Chrome version 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10.
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How to reduce WhatsApp Desktop App RAM Usage?
The WhatsApp Desktop App is always open on my Windows 11 machine since it is a major work tool.
The problem is that it is sacrificing 1GB of RAM.
It consumes around 600MB to 1GB depending on its usage....
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Why cannot music files be deleted, moved or renamed if any software is playing them?
While rearranging my music collection, I keep running into the highly frustrating situation where Windows (10) refuses to let met delete, move or rename a file just because I'm having it playing at ...
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Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10
So a program I was running just crashed because it was out of memory, and I was like, that's weird, because the only other programs I have running is task manager and chrome. So I open resource ...
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Why is my account usage taking only half the used RAM?
I've been suffering from this issue for the longest time and I can't seem to find a solution, as you can see, my account is using 31% but the total usage is 67%, and it's worse on startup (using less ...
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Using clipboard in Word and putting Photoshop to foreground results in both not responding for 20 seconds
Edit: I updated thread title and the opening post to reflect new findings.
I'm sorry for returning to an old and already resolved issue but I'm sort of desperate.
I started to experience an issue that ...
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How can I know if the speed of RAM is the bottleneck rather than CPU speed?
I have a lot of RAM, 20GB to be precise. However they are not exactly high-end RAMs.Two of them are Kingston 8GB RAMs with 800MHz speed and the other two are some no name brand 2GB RAMs with just ...
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Windows 10 - RAM usage constantly increases in Paged Pool, but no process is using the RAM
My computer has 32 GB of RAM. The RAM used increases from a minimal amount (<5GB) on startup, to 29 GB before stabilizing. This causes programs (web browser, VM, etc.) to crash for lack of memory.
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RAM usage is growing up to 96-98% for no reason?
Recently my computer has had an issue involving strange high RAM usage.
Right after starting up, the RAM usage is kind of high (about 48-50% of 16GB) but it's still usable.
After I open some apps for ...
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How to check which services are using too much memory
I have a Windows 10 laptop that constantly has high memory usage, even on idle. I did a selective startup with Microsoft and Intel services only, but the memory usage was only marginally lower than ...
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Computer feels laggy running Linux but okay with Windows 10 don't know why?
Processor: AMD A8-6600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics 3.90 GHz
Installed RAM: 8.00 GB (7.20 GB usable)
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch: No pen or touch ...
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How to uninstall PAEAFLT.sys drivers that do not belong to any device but that is forbidding from enabling Memory Integrity in Core Isolation?
Core isolation, Memory integrity, What if it says I have an incompatible driver?:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/core-isolation-e30ed737-17d8-42f3-a2a9-87521df09b78
As you can see, the ...
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How to force windows ReadyBoost [duplicate]
I have laptop with 6 GB RAM, and I found out about ReadyBoost, but when I connect the drive and open ReadyBoost tab in properties, it says that my device is fast enough. But I need the extra RAM for ...
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