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I have this issue where my PC's RAM completely fills up over the course of a few hours. I know that memory usage in itself is not bad, however, it has grown to the point that it makes the PC slow and unable. I have 12 GB of ram and typically, the RAM usage will go up to 11.5 GB causing this huge slowdown. I do have the page file enabled on system managed.
I found this application called RamMap from Sysinternals that shows the RAM usage and I find that choosing empty Modified Page List multiple times will clear the RAM back down to 6.5 GB usage. This makes the computer usable again, but what is causing the modified page list to take up all my memory?
I'm running Windows 7 and RamMap is shown below. This is a screenshot after clearing the modified page file.
You likely have a driver that is leaking memory. Verify the problem does not happen while running in Safe Mode. – Ramhound – 2016-09-09T00:54:12.817
Install the WPT (part of Win10 1511 SDK: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=698771 which also works for Win7), open a CMD.exe as admin, run this command wpr.exe -start ReferenceSet -filemode && timeout -1 && wpr.exe -stop C:\HighMemoryUsage.etl, wait 10 seconds, press a key to stop logging. Zip the large ETL file (+ NGENPDB folder) into 1 zip, upload the zip (OneDrive, dropbox, google drive) and post the share link here.
– magicandre1981 – 2016-09-09T04:24:23.593And please re-shoot the screen shot, this time including the entirety of the "modified" column. – Jamie Hanrahan – 2016-09-09T19:33:05.200
Thanks. I'm assuming for the information requested, you would like it when the memory usage is high? I've just restarted the computer to help get it working again so it might take a few hours for it to go up again. – ayao1337 – 2016-09-09T23:13:50.753
@magicandre1981 I can't seem to get wpr to work. It returns the system cannot find the file specified. Error code:0x8007002. I tried googling it but couldn't find anything relating to wpr? – ayao1337 – 2016-09-09T23:19:31.310
replace ReferenceSet with ResidentSet – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-10T05:23:50.857
I got the files along with a larger screenshot of rammap on onedrive here.
– ayao1337 – 2016-09-10T16:38:03.343