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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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Cygwin-x dbus-daemon process does not unload itself from memory after termination
I have 64 bit cygwin on Windows 10. When I terminate X sessions, a process spawned by c:\cygwin64\bin\dbus-daemon.exe stays in memory together with c:\windows\system32\conhost.exe 0x4. If I do it ...
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Commited memory keeps going up
So I have been having this problem for over a year, if anyone can help me solve this I would be forever grateful. Seriously.
Upon using my laptop (8Gb of physical memory) for a long time eventually ...
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How to track or dump all process memory throughtout process's lifetime?
There are several tools that exist for dumping process memory. I like to use procdump for simplicity.
Problem
The issue I am currently facing with all of these tools is that they will dump process ...
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How to kill a process?
I am using Scilab to access a software called LTSpice (XVIIx64.exe) and whenever I use taskkill/powershell.exe "Get-Process XVIIx64 | Stop-Process". or whatever killing commands, it doesn't actually ...
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I need an auto task killer for windows
I'm looking for some software that automatically kills the program taking the most amount of ram once the ram used goes past a set threshold
the reason why is because if I don't kill the process in ...
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Windows 10: Processes stuck in "Suspended" state
I'm running into an issue on Windows 10 where processes remain stuck in the "Suspended" state (visible through the task manager by displaying the "Status" column). Those processes cannot be killed, ...
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How do I find what's eating up 1.5GB of my memory?
I have a problem that something eats my memory and now my PC is slow , the task manager doesn't show the process who use that part of my memory i take captures of RAMMAP , resource monitor and ...
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Why the process in Windows 64 bit only used 2GB of RAM?
To my knowledge, every process in Windows 32 bit only up to 2GB RAM. In Windows 64 bit longer, that number is much larger (about 8TB of RAM)
I write an application in C ++ that allows to use more ...
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Getting the amount of memory a process is using
I'm trying to retrieve just the amount of memory a process is using. The closest thing I can get is
tasklist /fi "imagename eq process.exe"
But this returns a bunch of stuff:
Image Name ...
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Windows processes using extremely excessive amounts of RAM, PC completely unusable
I recently have had an issue with multiple Windows 7 PCs around the office. They all have the same issue. They'll be working great with no problems at all and then one day when someone comes in they'...
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How to measure total RAM usage of a program under Windows?
I was comparing the memory usage of different portable browsers but this question is general for all programs that open up in several sub-processes in task manager.
See the screenshot from ...
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See processes/programs spawned off by another
I want to see all the processes/exes in memory that are spawned off when I click an application in windows 7, 64 bit. I could use Process monitor to do this, but I am not
sure if it is the right tool....
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Task Manager shows wrong process memory usage [duplicate]
I don't have much info on this one, other than it happened some time ago (can't pinpoint what could've caused it) and a reboot doesn't fix it.
Here are a couple of screenshots:
I'm completely ...
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The process "ati2evxx.exe" clogs half my RAM, how can I disable it?
I have a Windows XP 32-bit OS on my computer, which has been acting strange lately: the system REFUSES to shut down, standby or even hibernate. Sometimes, the system even randomly reboots with a split ...
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