Windows 10: 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: https://imgur.com/a/lJ2R5jG

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

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

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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?

 

Non-paged pool usage is too high

Hello Courtney.

My name is Irisdiel and I am an independent advisor.

I suggest uninstalling background apps and restarting your pc as it may always be the updates that are causing your non paged pools to take up so much space. You should also consider turning off your NDU which there no problem in doing so.

Let me know if it worked or helped, thank you and good luck.

Regards- .