Windows 10: Very high RAM usage all the time w10

Hey,
so I have read alot of articles about this problem but none of them helped me out. Whenever I try to play a game it gives incredible frame drops all the time, making it unplayable.

This is what I did so far (installed ram is 16GB):
I turned off Superfetch, switched ram from slot 1-3 to slot 2-4, checked for mallware, then deleted everything from pc and did a fresh installation again and nothing worked.

The problem is: I'm currently using 1.3Gb in total of my RAM but somehow it is using up 15Gb/16Gb?
I can't find any app or service that is using that much RAM.

I'm not a computer expert I only have very basic knowledge so don't really understand the thing about RAM leak.

I'll add some printscreens to show you the problem.

Screenshot - 23ee84350ec0576670f1c4f89fc83431 - Gyazo - Total ram usage of everything active ATM(but something not displayed uses 14Gb?)

Screenshot - 780ee3796d02b65e2e149c704a7b37d5 - Gyazo - In use : 14.9 Gb Available : 1 Gb

Assigned: 16.0 / 24.4 Gb (only installed 16GB ram where does the 24.4Gb come from?)

Screenshot - 7743387676bd911ab17366f1f98c7468 - Gyazo - All active processes



:)

 

My cpu and ram usage is very high!

Sometimes my cpu and ram usage goes very high.

System(ntoskml.exe) and svhost(netvcs) use high ram.Once it reach 950 mb of my total 2gb ram.It has become difficult to use my pc (it is already old).Please Help me to prevent this high usage

 

Windows 10 - wuauserv - high cpu for severals hours a day

I am on W10 from long time - not trying to update to w10.

This high CPU usage appears from few days.

I can't stop this service.

It start working some time after boot.

 

Please post a screenshot of the Use Counts tab in RAMMap - Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs . Are you running any disk caching utilities (like Samsung Rapid) or virtual machines?

Your committed byte count (24.4GB) can be higher than your physical memory size because of paging, where some memory pages are stored in the pagefile on your hard drive.

 

Screenshot - e58e274fe6ad7178f8f643badaaba996 - Gyazo - RAMMap

can't think of any disk caching utilities or virtual machine (maybe realtek sound program?)

Thanks for thr quick reply btw!

 

Thanks. There's very high non-paged pool usage - this was also in your original screenshot (neit-wisselbare pool) but I missed it.

That usually points to a driver problem. Did this start happening after you installed some new device or driver? Does it start growing when you start playing a game or does it start growing right when you boot?

 

Most of the times it gets worse over time (when PC is running a couple of hours) , it happend a few times right after reboot to.

But it all started very suddenly: my pc was fine and then suddenly the next day it started with massive frame drops and got very laggy.
Can't remember if it was due a driver update tough. Was thinking that my GPU or HDD was broken or something.

 

Make sure all your drivers are up to date. If that doesn't help then you can do the following.

1. Download and install WDK - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=859232 . It's about 800MB - if you don't want to do that then PM me and I can just send you the poolmon.exe tool.
2. Run poolmon.exe from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Tools\x64
3. Press "p" until only "Nonp" lines are shown. Press "b" to sort by size.



4. See what are the top Tags. In the example above "ismc" is the top user of the non-paged pool with ~134MB.
5. Open an admin CMD/Powershell, go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers, and run: findstr /m /s /l ismc *.sys (replace "ismc" with your top tag).



6. The drivers listed are the likely owners of the "ismc" tag. In this case it's the Intel storage drivers.

 

Hey thanks alot already for helping me out!

I did what you said, and found that the problem seems to be with a driver called " netio.sys " , it uses atm around 2Gb of my non-paged pool.

I tried to google what to do about it but can't find a good enough explained answer to solve it :/. What would you do?

 

That would point to a network adapter driver issue. Are all your network drivers up to date?

Please collect a log with BSOD - Posting Instructions - Windows 10 Forums so that we can see all the drivers you have.

 

Allright got the log:

DESKTOP-P72SJK9-do_11-01-2018_160302,92.zip

 

Well you have one of those Killer NICs that I commonly see associated with this issue. Please install the latest drivers from Killer Driver Suite

Your system:
KillerEth ... 14-9-2016 22:52:26 C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\e2xw10x64.sys

Latest driver:

 

The logs are in a foreign language and cannot be scanned or read.
Please change the default language to English and re-post the zip for troubleshooting:
Language - Add, Remove, and Change in Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
log collector v2-beta06.zip


Bugcheck C2 is a bad pool caller.
There were no mini dumps in the logs.
So dump creation or dump cleaning need to be checked.



Code: 11-1-2018 13:58 Windows Error Reporting Foutbucket , type 0 Naam van gebeurtenis: BlueScreen Antwoord: Niet beschikbaar Id van CAB-bestand: 0 Handtekening van probleem: P1: c2 P2: 7 P3: 0 P4: 0 P5: ffffe2019834c260 P6: 10_0_16299 P7: 0_0 P8: 768_1 P9: P10: Toegevoegde bestanden: \\?\C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\011118-35031-01.dmp \\?\C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\WER-41578-0.sysdata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER133B.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER14F0.tmp.csv \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER153F.tmp.txt Deze bestanden zijn mogelijk hier beschikbaar: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\Kernel_c2_a147455483ed5fe1b3ff090d9dc91682aab46_00000000_02f7156d Analysesymbool: Opnieuw zoeken naar oplossing: 0 Rapport-id: f789e80e-986b-404e-986f-f43fcd19bbd1 Rapportstatus: 4 Opgedeelde bucket:11-1-2018 13:59 Windows Error Reporting Foutbucket , type 0 Naam van gebeurtenis: BlueScreen Antwoord: Niet beschikbaar Id van CAB-bestand: 0 Handtekening van probleem: P1: c2 P2: 7 P3: 0 P4: 0 P5: ffffe2019834c260 P6: 10_0_16299 P7: 0_0 P8: 768_1 P9: P10: Toegevoegde bestanden: \\?\C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\011118-35031-01.dmp \\?\C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\WER-41578-0.sysdata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER133B.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER14F0.tmp.csv \\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER153F.tmp.txt Deze bestanden zijn mogelijk hier beschikbaar: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Kernel_c2_a147455483ed5fe1b3ff090d9dc91682aab46_00000000_cab_22a79c60 Analysesymbool: Opnieuw zoeken naar oplossing: 0 Rapport-id: f789e80e-986b-404e-986f-f43fcd19bbd1 Rapportstatus: 2049 Opgedeelde bucket:[/quote]

 

Hey, I updated the driver and my non-paged pool is down to 140Mb *Biggrin! I've let it run for a few days, played some games and could get the graphics on "Very high" again without getting massive frame drops.

Seems to have fixed the problem, you are my hero forever thanks alot! *Smile

PS: how did you know it was that driver causing the problem? (For in the future)

 

netio.sys is part of the Windows network stack. But it's fairly high up in the stack so I wouldn't expect it to use much non-paged memory for itself. So that points to some other network driver that is interacting with netio.sys.

From Google searches for "non-paged memory leak" I see a number of people complaning about this issue with Killer NICs.