Windows 10, 'System' process taking massive amounts of RAM Weird Poolmon.exe :(

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Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my system has been consuming RAM excessively

I've been reading a bit and determined it's likely a driver leaking memory. So I got myself the Windows Driver Kit and tracked memory usage with poolmon:

However, I don't really know how to proceed from here. This poolmon.exe is very weird. Is the item tagged "APL-Paged" the culprit in this issue? How do I go from there to actually identifying the driver?

I tried some stuff like "C:\Windows\System32\drivers>findstr /s APL ." but it returned no results.

So yeah, any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Javier Yopasá

Posted 2015-10-30T02:56:59.890

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Possible duplicate of Windows 10, 'System' process taking massive amounts of RAM

– magicandre1981 – 2015-10-30T05:25:43.653

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Don't worry, this is fine and by design. Instead of paging out data to the page file and (mostly slow HDD), Windows 10 compresses the data and stores it in the SYSTEM process.

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Read my link for a much deeper answer.

magicandre1981

Posted 2015-10-30T02:56:59.890

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I have read your link and I find that this high memory usage is due to default design, but for me using 1 or 2gb of ram is freezing my PC and I think that 8 or 9 hours could damage my PC or at least reduce its life :( – Javier Yopasá – 2015-10-31T04:44:46.410

what happens if you press the CAPS LOCK key during the freeze? Does the light on the keyboard toggle or not? – magicandre1981 – 2015-10-31T07:50:22.413

It switch on :) – Javier Yopasá – 2015-11-01T14:55:43.980

ok, in this case it is an software issue. Run RAMMap to see which other processes use most RAM: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ff700229.aspx , close them to reduce the compression of Windows

– magicandre1981 – 2015-11-01T18:22:42.710

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