Ram- Modified Page List using all memory

According to the picture

the memory usage of modified is only 77MB and the data from the ETL

the memory usage of modified is only 60 MB, which is low.

The real usage comes from the PageTable, which is over 2GB, but I see no related process (UNKNOWN (-1)):

Here some 3rd party tools cuase the leak. 1 knwon tool is Lenovo "RapidBoot Shield", but you use a Dell laptop. Stop several tools until you can isolate which tool causes it.

magicandre1981

Posted 2016-09-08T23:26:11.487

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What do you mean by "dell tool"? Any idea what this may be? I also noticed that, after running the empty commands in rammap, the memory usage drops from 10 to 6.5 gb used but rammap doesn't show the page table usage dropping. I linked a picture here

– ayao1337 – 2016-09-11T16:29:56.033

page table can't be reduced by any tools. stop programs until you found the one that causes it – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-12T04:13:35.730

1I've killed almost all of the programs that I can think of, but the ram usage won't go down. Is there any other way to find what is causing this issue? – ayao1337 – 2016-09-13T01:26:42.460

in msconfig there is option "Diagnostic Startup" which only loads the minimal services/drivers that Windows needs to boot. http://www.ghacks.net/2011/05/04/the-benefits-of-windows-diagnostic-startup-mode/ do this and look if you still have the issue

– magicandre1981 – 2016-09-13T04:26:41.460

any update on this? have you found which tool causes it? – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-16T15:16:25.383

No, I honestly don't have any clue on what to do or how to diagnose this. I will try diagnostic startup, but even if it doesn't happen then, how will I find the tool causing it? – ayao1337 – 2016-09-17T18:01:53.407

you can only find it by stopping all 3rd party tools (50:50 rule, stopping half, look if still happens, stop again 50% pf the remaining tools and so on) until you found which tool causes it – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-17T18:09:07.243

I've tried diagnostic startup and the ram usage was fine. Now I guess its time to do what you suggested and do 50/50. This might take a while. – ayao1337 – 2016-09-25T15:35:39.133

Yes but this is the only way to find the cause – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-25T18:16:26.580

any update? have you found the causing tool? – magicandre1981 – 2016-10-02T20:54:28.683

Yes, I think I'm getting very close. Currently, I've stopped the issue-causing program from msconfig. Ram has been fine for the past few days. I will just slowly enable programs until the issue appears again. It will just take a little more testing to figure out the culprit. – ayao1337 – 2016-10-03T00:55:11.260

any update on your issue? – magicandre1981 – 2016-12-03T20:04:22.250

What ended up happening was that I just left whatever I had stopped as is in msconfig and forgot about it. The problem just disappeared. – ayao1337 – 2017-01-09T17:21:32.367

and which processes have you disabled? – magicandre1981 – 2017-01-09T17:23:57.497

AcroTray, Acronis Scheduler 2 Service, adm_tray.exe, Acrobat Syncronizer, Adobe Creative Cloud, Fitbit Connect, Skype, Java Auto Updater, and MagicDisc – ayao1337 – 2017-01-09T17:30:29.963

maybe it is MagicDisc when you mount a ISO – magicandre1981 – 2017-01-09T17:32:22.843

Hmm. I just started it and mounted an ISO but there is no difference in ram usage? I'm just so glad this issue disappeared. I just always run into the most random issues. – ayao1337 – 2017-01-09T17:36:36.133

hm, it is difficult to tell which software causes high pagetable usage. if it is fine now,enjoy it. – magicandre1981 – 2017-01-10T16:02:15.180

I'm not sure either. Thanks for your help along the way though. Really appreciated. – ayao1337 – 2017-01-13T02:14:57.917

ok, if you think my reply answered/helped you, mark it is answer to "close" the question. http://meta.stackexchange.com/a/5235

– magicandre1981 – 2017-01-13T16:00:19.243

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 – 2016-09-09T04:24:23.593

And 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

Ram- Modified Page List using all memory

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