Questions tagged [memory-leaks]
Unaccountable increases in consumption of system memory that can only be stopped by restarting the application or computer.
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Suspected memory leaked but can't solve it
To start, I got a problem where there are unknown memory usages that not shown in Task Manager nor Resource Monitor.
So, I look out for the similar problem here and found this post here.
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Windows Defender SenseNdr.exe causing Non-Paged Pool memory leak after Windows Server update KB5041578
We're experiencing a significant Non-Paged Pool memory leak on our Windows Server 2019 domain controllers after installing the following updates:
KB5041578
Servicing Stack Update 10.0.17763.6174
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Solved // Intel RST high memory usage
I've been giong crazy over the past few days trying to fix what I think is a memory leak caused by an unecessary Intel RST driver..
With absolutely no program running my memory usage is always above ...
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Windows page table memory leak - how to debug?
After running for just a single day, the 32GB system RAM on my Windows machine would become full, but without any process using significant memory. Task manager shows that processes under my user took ...
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How do I troubleshoot the "Your system has run out of application memory" pop-up in macOS Sonoma? [closed]
How do I troubleshoot the "Your system has run out of application memory" pop-up in macOS Sonoma?
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My employer has provided me with a MacBook Pro M3 Pro with 36 GB of RAM. ...
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Unknown Memory Hog in Windows 11
I have an HP Omen gaming laptop that recently struggles with memory use hitting close to 100% when playing. Tried restarting to get a fresh picture, checked TaskManager and RamMap and there's lots of ...
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part of ram used by hidden processes in Windows
after some time some hidden processes are using my ram. They are not shown nor in process hacker, nor in system informer.
On attached screenshot on bottom right it shows that 25GB is used in total, ...
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How to track down why 3-4GB of memory being used up as soon as the PC starts?
When I try to do findstr on these non page drives, I either get a really large error strain, or nothing.
Even when all the applications are closed, I still see 3-4 gigs of RAM being used.
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Restart/-load all active extensions in Firefox?
Firefox's extensions leak memory and, with time, consume more and more CPU. This can be reset by disabling/enabling them. Is there a way to cycle all active extensions enabled status, without being ...
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Windows Performance Analyzer getting N/A for memory leak in EtwD and EtwR
I am having a big problem with Etw having a memory leak. I used Poolmon to find out that it seems Etw is the service that is having the leak. This leak only occurs when I run another program that I ...
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If memory is not released after shutdown, does it mean it is kernel or driver memory leak?
I am trying to track down cause of a memory leak on Windows 10 PC. Something uses up memory, until system will start swapping to SDD, and when that runs out system will eventually crash. (Limit is 16 ...
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etwr/etwd Extremely High Memory Usage
Posted this on stackoverflow and was advised to post here for better help.
I have been using a program that I made that is built on .NET 6 and does some TCP and SQL related operations to put it simply....
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RamMap processes private memory doesn't add up
The summary tab shows 27 GB used:
But processes don't add up to this amount:
What's using memory?
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How to see where does Windows 10's commit charge go?
On my daily used laptop, the commit charge will rise to quite high eventually (27.8GB in the first attached image) while the accumulated commit size of all listed applications will be much smaller (...
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Non-paged pool Proc tag memory leak in Windows 11?
I have been looking for an answer to this all over the internet, but I am unable to get any concrete answers. I seem to have a non-paged pool memory leak within the Proc tag that is made worse by ...
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My RAM usage is at 68% and I don't know why
Here are screenshots of my current issue:
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Do I have a memory leak? Zombie Handlers? What do I do? Never had this issue before..
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System appears to have been restarted overnight; previously open applications are all closed as if the system was restarted but no signs of restart
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700KF CPU @ 3.80GHz
Memory: 32770MB (4395MB used)
Motherboard: PRIME Z490-A
Graphics Card: RTX 2060
Operating System: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
The last two days, when I ...
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Limit paged pool memory size in Windows 10 to battle driver memory leak
I'd like to battle paged pool memory leak caused by audio driver. I came up with the idea to limit the paged pool memory size to a reasonable amount. In "Windows Internals, Part 1" book by ...
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How to decrease a memory in paged pool that consumed by CM31 tag?
My RAM disappears for unknown tasks. I have known that my Paged pool has grown to 582 MB. Task manager does not show which process has consumed this RAM. Poolmon: CM31 = 338 MB, MmSt = 42, CM25 = 33, ...
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Why java consumes about 3GB of memory on the background?
I am just wondering to know what this process stands for and why it consumes that much of memory consistently in my Ubuntu-22.04LTS background?
Is it possible to get ride of it or reduce it's memory ...
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High memory usage by msedgewebview2.exe every few days
It doesn't happen everyday, so it's hard to investigate.
Every few days, my running applications would crash because of low memory. When I try to investigate, I see msedgewebview2.exe having high ...
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Urgent: Cannot run any program as administrator, gives file system error (-1073740791) on Windows 10
So a program I was running just crashed because it was out of memory, and I was like, that's weird, because the only other programs I have running is task manager and chrome. So I open resource ...
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Why is my account usage taking only half the used RAM?
I've been suffering from this issue for the longest time and I can't seem to find a solution, as you can see, my account is using 31% but the total usage is 67%, and it's worse on startup (using less ...
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50% of Ram used when Idle, Games run with massive performance issues
Recently, my computer started to use almost 50% of ram while idle. Not only this, but all of a sudden while multi-tasking programs slowed down, I had been able to run these programs simultaneously ...
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Is gradually growing swap usage an indicator for a memory leak?
I’m trying to understand whether I have a memory leak on my server (Windows Server 2012R2). The server has 48 GB RAM and was designed to run only a DBMS (a SQL Server 2014) but there are also other ...
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High memory usage on Arch Linux based distro
Every so often, i notice my computer starts to become slow, and then before i know it, completely unusable. I (barely) open bashtop/htop to see whats going on and i see that (example) 59GB/62.8GB of ...
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Why aren't memory leaks fixed when the leaking process is terminated?
As far as I know, memory leaks (malloc without free in C) persist even after the process which leaked is terminated, causing the whole machine to be starved of memory and slow down over time.
Why ...
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On Windows 10, how can I know which app is consuming my memory?
I have 32G memory on my PC, which is extremely large.
I ran docker in windows.
I found my memory usage is extremly high (90%),
I closed all my programs.
and I found 59%+ memory usage, wait for a night,...
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Why is unused memory counted as used at the same time?
So I'm regularly using a VM with Hyper-V on my Windows 11 host system (Windows 11 Pro, 64 bit, 16GB RAM, Core i5) without any issues. But since yesterday I noticed that I don't have enough available ...
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What is making Chrome's Utility Speech Recognition Service consuming too much memory?
I recently started to find Chrome (actually Chromium) consuming too much memory, so, I opened the browser's Task manager to observe which pages/processes are doing that the most, and I always found ...
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Memory Leak, possibly from unknown Microsoft Driver
Task manager lists about 800 MB taken from startup, and the performance tab and resource monitor show about 3.9 GB from startup. After about 24 hours, it will be at ~13 GB. Two days, even sleeping, ...
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7GB of ram in use, but only chrome is open
So as the title says, I have 7GB or 46% of my ram being used for no particularly obvious reason. The first thing I checked is of course the Task Manager and the Resource Monitor but nothing could be ...
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"Cannot allocate memory" error when crossfading
I adapted Gyan's algorithm for crossfading - which I prefer the results of to xfade - to concat two videos together and crossfade with a third:
ffmpeg -i "source1.mp4" -i "source2.mp4&...
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How to fix or limit MoUsoCoreWorker.exe excessive RAM usage?
MoUsoCoreWorker.exe has been causing problems since last month (June 2021), unexpectedly causing crashes and system instability due to excessive memory usage... on a computer with 16 GB RAM.
I checked ...
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Windows 7 RAM usage - Rammap shows "Transition" pages constantly growing under "Process Private"
Very recently, I noticed my memory usage would slowly approach 100% with normal computer usage, until eventually the system would crash. I went hunting to see if any particular process(es) were ...
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Huge non-paged pool increase in ram
So I did some digging based on recommended tools found here.
When searching through RamMap, the Non-Paged pool is taking a ridiculous amount of RAM out of my 16 GBs as shown here. So I went to poolmon ...
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How do I handle this HUGE Firefox 83 memory leak?
Whenever I leave Firefox on, with a bunch of tabs, for more than a few hours, its memory use balloons, and everything else seems to be swapped out, so my system becomes highly non-responsive. In a ...
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Clean stock Windows eating up 21 Gb of ram
I bought a new PC that has 40gb of ram, and just installed a clean windows on it, with only chrome and few tabs open my ram usage is 21 GB ! the numbers in task manager don't add up to even 30% of ...
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Windows 10 high memory usage after some weeks - what is uwplauncher.ex?
I'm trying to find out what is causing the memory leak on some Windows 10 machines.
This is the comparison between right after reboot (left) and after about 6 weeks (right):
comparison before/after
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Missing memory usage on processes list
Current memory used based on Task Manager processes list is around 2gb since google chrome is the most memory hungry on the list.
But on performance tab, I've been using 7gb.
Is there something or ...
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"Unknown" driver in Windows Assessment and Deployment Tool Kit
I have an issue with high ram usage. I have 16 GB RAM and its 7 GB is consuming. Normally this should be 3 GB. I detect this is a driver problem so I scan all drives with Windows Assessment and ...
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Windows 10: explorer.exe memory issues
This question has been asked several times all across the internet, but without any satisfactory answer to date so I'll try again.
For almost two years now, I've been noticing ridiculous memory usage ...
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Windows 10 v1909 Memory Leak
Windows 10 Pro v1909 Intel i5-8250U 8GB RAM
I updated to v1909 from v1809 back in December, and since then, I've noticed that my Memory used at idle and my paged/non-paged pool is significantly more ...
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How can I find the root cause of nonpaged pool memory leak from pool tag PdcA called by umpdc.dll?
I have a nonpaged pool memory leak that grows consistently with about 80 allocations per second, each 200 bytes. So it is about 16kB per second or 58MB / hour, 1.4GB/day.
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if one byte has leaked in a page of 4kb in physical ram,then after swapping to disk does it will count as 4kb is used instead of one byte?
We have an 64 bit application running on windows, for the fact we know it is leaking very few bytes of memory in the c++ code.But for a setup which has 16gb physical ram and 32gb pagefile.sys. ...
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High memory usage not showing up in Task Manager
I have recently built a new PC, that has been running great but I have noticed abnormally high memory usage. With a couple of relatively lightweight programs running, it is up to 14 GB when the most I ...
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Firejail and chrome: limiting RAM useage
Long story short, I have a consistent memory leak coming from somewhere. I'm thinking that it's my browser. So I've tried using firejail to limit the memory as follows:
firejail --rlimit-as=8048576000 ...
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How to call garbage collect on firefox?
I wonder if someone could guide me on some questions about GC on firefox.
Is possible to call the action performed when I click on the button GC using javascript?
https://i.sstatic.net/JgoNx.png
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Unable to locate the RAM2 tag in Non-paged Pool
I have figured out my computer has a memory leak, and a 14.5 GB Non-Paged pool:
I have tried to run poolmon.exe and it came up with this, and I suspect it is the "RAM2" tag to be the cause:
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Always using around 96% RAM (4.6GB out of 16GB) Windows 10
On my laptop my RAM is always full. I know I have too many tabs open (around 70) but even after I just boot up my pc and without opening Firefox it quickly climbs to over 90% usage.
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