Windows 10 memory leak

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Hey guys,

A few days ago I upgraded to the threshold 2 thing on win 10 and also did a bit of a spring clean, updated lots of things. And at some point along the way I picked up a honking great memory leak. After a few hours of use I'm sitting at 100% ram usage with neither the task manager or process explorer showing anything with it high ram use.
Is there any way to find out what it is that's causing the leak? Or am I better off just reinstalling everything again?
Thanks!
 
Hello,
I have completed an upgrade recently (from W7 64Bit wasn't a fresh install) which eventually killed itself as it started maxing out the RAM causing Windows Explorer to crash repeatedly. It might be worth restarting Windows Explorer in Task manager as a long shot but when I had my own problem other forums were reporting Windows Error Reporting Service was a cause for similar issues with RAM usage.

Hope this gives you any pointers, I never really solved the issue with my upgrade(reverted back to W7 in the end)
 
Well, following a whole ton of faffing around and eventually downloading and running poolmon to track the nonpaged memory usage, the culprit appears to be Ndu.sys, the windows Network Data Usage Monitor. This seems to be either just something that happenes because Microsoft, or because of my killer NIC on the motherboard. And given I had some troubles getting the NIC drivers working in the first place, I'm going to try disabling the NDU through the reg fix:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Ndu
And changing the start value to 4.

For those who stumble on this thread, it was actually surprisingly easy to track the leak down, though it does require installing visual studio plus some other gubbins!
This video combined with this written guide helped me track it down really easily. Switch to the written guide after you've done everything with poolmon since the whole .txt file thing isn't going to be useful, the written guide has a command prompt thingy which tells you the faulty process.

Hope all this helps someone else in the future if they have a memory leak and stumble on this thread!
 
Fair enough. I guess something happened with the 1511 update that the killer drivers didn't like. Regardless, disabling the NDU service thing seems to have stopped the memory leak. Not entirely sure what the service did but everything's running smooth so far. I'll leave my PC running overnight to confirm but hopefully it's all good.
 
Killer NIC = poc. They cause so many stupid issues.

Either remove/disable it in BIOS or try latest drivers.


It always helps to list all hardware in threads like this.
 
bledd. said:
Killer NIC = poc. They cause so many stupid issues.

Either remove/disable it in BIOS or try latest drivers.


It always helps to list all hardware in threads like this.
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Unfortunately it's built into the mobo and is the only ethernet port I have. And honestly the nic didn't even occur to me. Two of the things I had updated at the same time were my g930 drivers and the amd crimson drivers. Googling either of those plus memory leak produces lots of hits while the nic hasn't caused issues since I got it installed.

Still, the Reg fix did the job, was sitting at 40% ram usage this morning.
 
I wasn't keen on the Killer LAN on my Z97X Gaming 5 when I got it, but the drivers were built into the software. Fortunately, found someone who mentioned the Killer E2200 was effectively an Atheros AR8161, so downloaded the drivers from Atheros' website, manually pointed the Device Manager to these and I've not had to use the Killer LAN software since. :D

Here's the guide I stumbled on, if you want it:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/t...2200-nic-into-qualcomm-atheros-ar8161.198899/
 
I had the same Killer issues so went with the drivers only (available on their site without the suite crap)

They just released a new driver with the suite that actually works and doesn't leak so trialling them at present and all seems well for now :D
 
Hi all,..

I'm just about to install my Gigabyte Z97X Gaming G1 MB into a brand new PC build. I'm anxious enough at it is because it's the first time I've done a project like this.

Regarding this Killer network. I didn't know what is was or really meant so this thread has made me worry because I'm a total noob.

What should I do regards the supplied disc that came with the MB? `do I still use it to install all the Drivers and wot not?

I thought I could simply use my BT CD ROM install driver that I got with my router a few years ago and use the internet in the normal way without this Killer networking.
 
Personality I would never use an included cd for installing drivers just because you have no long how long it's been since the cd was pressed. You're always better off going to the manufacturers website and downloading the latest versions of all the drivers. For you, that should be here. Regarding the killer driver, I'd grab the base drivers only direct from killer. http://www.killernetworking.com/support/driver-downloads/standard-drivers
 
iviv said:
Hey guys,
A few days ago I upgraded to the threshold 2 thing on win 10 and also did a bit of a spring clean, updated lots of things. And at some point along the way I picked up a honking great memory leak. After a few hours of use I'm sitting at 100% ram usage with neither the task manager or process explorer showing anything with it high ram use.
Is there any way to find out what it is that's causing the leak? Or am I better off just reinstalling everything again?
Thanks!
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I wouldnt touch a new op system until the first service pack is out, there are always loads and loads of problems with them unless they have been greatly checked before release and when have MS ever done that ? LOL, Never ! Windows 7 x64 for me until windows 10 gets very serious updates or a service pack, plus I hate the in built snooping software that windows 10 has too, that on its own is enough to put a lot of people off, just my 2p's worth though.
 
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