Windows 10: High memory usage / Memory leak caused by Intel driver

Hello, I'm running a 64 bit Windows 10 laptop. On idle, the System process is showing a high memory usage of more than 150 MB, usually more than 200 MB. Using poolmon the pooltag SpDN showed up with a memory leak. It leads to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver, iaStorV.sys. How should I go about fixing the problem?

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High RAM Usage when Idling (1m after start-up)

have you tried updating your drivers? its possible that youre encountering a memory leak

check this out: Windows 10 high memory usage (unknown reason)

 

WIN10 1703 update cause Explorer.exe high CPU usage

Hi,



Glad you reached out. First, we would like to know if Explorer.exe
is the only cause of high CPU usage. Because the common cause of high CPU usage are the following:

- Windows 10 Memory leak after the update.

- Driver incompatibilities after the update.

- Multiple startup applications

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We'll be waiting for your update.

 

Hi,

Since this is a Intel driver I doubt the WDK can fix it.
You may try to see if there's a more current version of Intel's RST available for download and see if that fixes the leakage issue.

Cheers, *Wink