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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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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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34 GB of commited memory but no app actually commited that much

Sometimes I encounter Out of memory errors and Windows Event Viewer shows this (translated): Resource-Exhaustion-Detector: A lack of virtual memory in the system was successfully detected. The ...
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Windows 10: half of the installed RAM usable

Yesterday I needed to install Docker on Windows along with the WSL2 to run elasticsearch in the Docker container. After the installation, I spotted that out of 16 Gb of physically installed RAM, my PC ...
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Find a string in the whole RAM

How to search a string in the whole RAM? (not only in some processes' allocated memory, but the whole RAM) Or is there a way to dump the whole RAM into a 4GB or 8GB disk file? Then I could easily do:...
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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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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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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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My computer won't use all 16GB of installed RAM, how can I fix this?

I've been using a PC that I built here and it has been running very well for me for several years. However, a few months back I started to have issues where I find myself running out of RAM. After ...
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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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Windows server 2012 R2 - Memory in use is more than commit charge

One of our Windows server reported 100% memory usage and please see the attached image for details. What I don't understand is that "In use (31.5G)" is more than "commit charge(6.6G)", does that mean ...
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Distribute Blender rendering to two computers

I have two computers Macbook Pro Intel i7 2.9GHz with 8GB of ram PC with Intel i5 2.5GHz and 8GB of ram Is it possible to distribute Blender rendering to use both of these computers? Currently ...
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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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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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