Windows 10: paged pool

hi

i have windows 10 build 19041.508

cpu -19-10900k

gpu nivida 2070 super 8g ddr6 vram

64g crucial balistic 3200mz ram 16g in 4 slots

asus z490 mother board

ssd 250g wd blue

hhd wd blue 2tb

my question is this. iam seeing a paged pool of 3.2gs. i have never seen it that high. normally it is 200-300mb.

can you tell me what might be causing this?

i do appreciate any imput or help with this.

thanks for your time

hope all is well with yall

stay safe.

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Huge non-paged pool on startup?

Hello. I just built a new computer and installed the drivers for it on w10. Everything works fine, but I have a non-paged pool of 5.7gb out of 16 on startup, and I'd like to do something about that. I checked under task manager for the non-paged pool,
but none of the programs there are taking nearly that much. I suspect it's the killer network driver, but I'd still like to confirm it. Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

Nonpaged Pool

Hi Joseph,

For us to better assist you with your issue on memory usage, we'd like to gather additional information.

• When did you start experiencing the issue?
• Have you made any updates or changes to your computer before experiencing this issue?
• Have you tried to update your Windows 10 to its latest version?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

In the meantime, you can refer to this thread regarding non-paged pool memory.

Looking forward to your response.

 

Large amount of Paged Pool memory usage over time

I have been fighting with this for some time and I can't figure out what it is. Over time, my Paged Pool memory usage keeps climbing until eventually I have to reboot to clear it out. It is a tough problem to search for because most people seem to have a problem with non-paged pool memory and all of those problems get included in the search results.

I have 32GB of RAM and once the paged pool reaches around 18GB or so it starts to bog down and get sluggish. And when I say 18GB, I mean 18GB with nothing open. I have my typical tray stuff, which I have tried killing, but nothing releases the RAM. I have let it climb all the way to 32GB before, but then the computer becomes useless and took about a half hour or so to shut down.

When I run Rammap it shows that paged pool is huge, and in the process list there is a process called MemCompression that has an extremely large amount of RAM in use. Not the full size of the paged pool, but definitely really big.

There are several threads talking about using Poolmon to track down processes using lots of paged or non-paged pool memory, but the process on mine that is extremely large has a tag of Se, which is tough to search for in the strings because virtually every file has Se in it somewhere.

Right now I just rebooted again, so the usage is back to "normal" (if you consider 11GB memory in use normal for just having Chrome open) and my paged pool is around 2GB or so. It will increase again by this evening, so I will get some screen grabs of the Rammap and the process list. Any other screens I can grab that might help?