Windows 10: High Non Paged Pool Usage - Ks.sys

Hi,


I am running Windows 10 Home Edition Version 10.0.18363 Build 18636. I am getting High memory usage especially paged pool and non paged pool. Attached poolmon tool identifies ks.sys to be the reason. However, I could not find what drivers may be the cause. I tried reinstalling webcam drivers, setting NonPagedPoolSize limits and Setting Ndu to not start but nothing helps. Keeping windows up to date - any help would be appreciated.



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Non-paged pool very high and increasing


I have 16GB of RAM in my computer and my memory usage keeps getting up to 99% with little use. Every time I restart my computer the non-paged pool goes down to around 200MB but after about an hour it is up to 10GB. I only have Google chrome open with 5 tabs. I have updated Windows but the problem persists. Up until today I was able to run my computer for days without shutting down or restarting and memory use was never this high.

Is there anything I can do to get non-paged pool down?

 

Non-paged pool usage is too high

Based on your calculations, how large should the non-paged pool be?

 

High Non-Paged Pool Usage

Hello,

Recently I've noticed my RAM usage increased to near 95-100% usage since I installed the latest update for version 1909 after several hours (over 20) of usage. I've done a bit of research into the problem and
found out that the non-paged pool size increases to 6+ GB whenever this happens.

I've tried disabling Ndu, but that didn't seem to help. I tried updating drivers through Device Manager but it says that everything is up to date. I've used utilities, such as poolmon, RAMMap, and Sigcheck
to gather information (which I have screenshots of) but I'm not sure how to interpret what I've found.

Imgur album link: Large non-paged pool

Sigcheck output: https://pastebin.com/Wa4b7xxw

If it helps, I have an AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU and a Gigabyte B450M DS3H WiFi Motherboard.