Obscenely high memory usage?

weewyum · 27 Dec 2013 at 16:56

Right now sat on the desktop my memory usuage is 8.9gb/16gb with 6.7 cached and 6.6 available... This continues over a few days up to 99% usage where everything will grind to a halt and require a reboot.

I've ran memtest through 6 passes and no errors and don't know enough about memory to know whats causing this. Could it be a program or driver gone wrong?

9.3 now

weewyum · 27 Dec 2013 at 17:02

sorry for size :eek:

weewyum · 27 Dec 2013 at 17:11

Both are latest stable release but I do suspect Firefox as the culprit. I will uninstall both and run for a while to see if its the same.

weewyum · 27 Dec 2013 at 18:54

Thanks guys, I will download and run RAMMap next time it reaches something ridiculous. I rebooted after removing firefox and is sat at 2.1gb which seems a bit more reasonable now but time will tell!

weewyum · 27 Dec 2013 at 19:10

Ive taken some screenshots on RAMMap but they are huge so you can find them here: http://imgur.com/a/C0L6s

Theres over 30 instances of Adobe creative cloud running... (coresync.exe)

weewyum · 28 Dec 2013 at 23:03

Found the culprit, Windows Network Data Usage Monitor. The memory in use increases proportionally to how much I download... Thankfully it can be forced to never start up.

weewyum · 29 Dec 2013 at 02:52

Currently watching the non paged pool rise by 1mb for every mb downloaded...... sigh. Will leave it overnight before taking a hammer to Windows 8

weewyum · 29 Dec 2013 at 23:02

For now I've installed the Killer drivers from their own website instead of from MSI. I've been downloading for several hours now and non-paged pool hasn't increased past 500mb yet but I suspect it won't last long! Nice to know I'm not alone with this problem though, hopefully Microsoft/Qualcomm will fix it one day..

weewyum · 30 Dec 2013 at 07:35

The problem seems to be with how Killer's drivers interact with the windows network monitor thingymabob. All is good though now, non-paged pool is at 135mb this morning which is a relief! Fire Wizard thankyou for pointing me towards RAMMap as it led me to the solution!