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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is gradually growing swap usage an indicator for a memory leak?

I’m trying to understand whether I have a memory leak on my server (Windows Server 2012R2). The server has 48 GB RAM and was designed to run only a DBMS (a SQL Server 2014) but there are also other ...
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On Windows 10, how can I know which app is consuming my memory?

I have 32G memory on my PC, which is extremely large. I ran docker in windows. I found my memory usage is extremly high (90%), I closed all my programs. and I found 59%+ memory usage, wait for a night,...
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Why is unused memory counted as used at the same time?

So I'm regularly using a VM with Hyper-V on my Windows 11 host system (Windows 11 Pro, 64 bit, 16GB RAM, Core i5) without any issues. But since yesterday I noticed that I don't have enough available ...
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7GB of ram in use, but only chrome is open

So as the title says, I have 7GB or 46% of my ram being used for no particularly obvious reason. The first thing I checked is of course the Task Manager and the Resource Monitor but nothing could be ...
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Windows 7 RAM usage - Rammap shows "Transition" pages constantly growing under "Process Private"

Very recently, I noticed my memory usage would slowly approach 100% with normal computer usage, until eventually the system would crash. I went hunting to see if any particular process(es) were ...
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Clean stock Windows eating up 21 Gb of ram

I bought a new PC that has 40gb of ram, and just installed a clean windows on it, with only chrome and few tabs open my ram usage is 21 GB ! the numbers in task manager don't add up to even 30% of ...
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