Obscenely high memory usage?

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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 :(
 
If the problem is escalating over time it sounds like a software memory leak, blocks are being delegated for storing data however they aren't being released afterwards. So they just sit there with the data in them while new empty blocks get delegated. It's a mean cycle.

Which version of firefox are you running? the normal build or a nightly release? Same question for spotify is it a development (beta/alpha) release?
 
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.
 
If you download a tool called RAMMap from Sysinternals, it will give you a much better insight into the physical memory usage of the system.

Once you have RAMMap running, if you post a screenshot of the 'Use Counts' tab, and the 'Processes' tab sorted by the 'Total' column.

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Is the number of SpotifyHelper processes normal? I don't use it anymore, but more than 1 of those processes doesn't sound normal.
 
arfoll said:
This seems like a crazy memleak (gigs over days is very unlikely to come from mozilla.org stable!)
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Gigs over days in indeed a obsene memory leak, however 4 builds back on the nightly release (auroa) there was a memory leak that would scale to 900mbs in roughly 30mins. So a good day of the same leak running a mock isn't too unrealistic.

Shame there isn't any software that I can think of to log each programs memory usage and what blocks it delegates but doesn't release. Unless like Fire Wizard said RAMMap does that.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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 said:
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
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I had the same problem as you, and after setting the startup type to "disabled" for the Windows Network Data Usage Monitor service, my non-paged pool stopped blowing up.

Are you sure yours is disabled? Doing it via the command line, not editing the registry, worked for me: "sc config NDU start= disabled"
 
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..
 
So it's the network drivers at fault? It actually doesn't suprise me that the Killer network card is the problem, they seem to cause more of a problem instead of helping with gaming. And surely it's more of Killer's fault as they're the ones in charge of the drivers, Qualcomm only makes the chipsets used by the cards.

Perhaps maybe you should consider replacing it with an Intel one if you run into problems with the newer drivers (I suspect the ones on MSI is out of date).
 
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