Windows 10: fltMgr.sys causing an insane Paged Pool memory leak

I have been dealing with this issue for a while, and trying my best to find a solution, I have tried almost everything I have researched, but it still continues. From the very moment my PC starts up, the Paged Pool goes up at a rate of around 100MB every 5 minutes. Below is all the info I have, I'm not really sure what else to include.One potential reason might be because I recently upgraded my RAM as 16GB was a little too small for me, to 64 GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 64GB 2x32GB DDR4 3200. I'm not much of a tech genius, but it was working fine with absolutely no lag or delays right aft

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Paged Pool Memory Increasing Over Time

hello.

tried clean boot, no success

uninstalled third party antivirus, no success.

paged pool memory size is still increasing.

is there a way to find out which program causing the memory leak ?

or,

do you have any another solution?

 

High paged pool memory after leaving system on for quite sometime

1.2 GB Paged pool does not seem unreasonable for a system with 32 GB RAM. This value is higher for systems with large RAM sizes. In any event it is hardly likely to be the cause of your problem.

The paged and non paged memory pools are used by kernel level components such as drivers and the kernel itself. The paged pool can be paged out at the memory managers discretion while the non paged pool must remain in RAM at all times. Task Manager will not tell you how much of the paged pool is in RAM.

Memory usage in any modern OS is controlled by the system memory manager, always with the goal of maximizing overall system performance. When available memory is plentiful, as is shown in the screenshots, the memory manager will allow processes and other Windows components to use pretty much whatever memory they want without restrictions. But if there is memory pressure it is fully capable of reducing the paged pool usage to a small fraction of it's current value. But it will only do this if needed. Doing it at any other time would serve no useful purpose and would likely impair performance. Note that this is the RAM resident portion of the paged pool, not what is shown in Task Manager which would be unaffected.

High memory usage, even if it is seriously abnormal, will not impair performance unless it causes a shortage. I have seen many Internet articles that get this wrong. It is not unusual for the paged pool to grow over time. Unless there is a memory leak, and there is nothing to suggest that here, this growth will stop.

 

is this memory leak?

Hello RASHMIRANJAN1,

I'm an independent advisor and hope this would address your questions.

This is not a memory leak. A memory leak happens when a process or program failed to discard utilized memory when it is no longer in use. In that case, you would see a process or program consuming more and more memory over time.

I wouldn't be worried about the paged and non-paged pools as they aren't excessively large in size. The paged pool is used to store handles of kernel objects, so it is normal to have some usage there. And non-paged pool is used by kernel and drivers of the
operating system, so it is also normal for some usage there.