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Need help finding a terrible memory leak

TheSuperNexus
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Hey Guys, So i have a little bit of a problem. So a couple of days ago my PC was running slow so i looked at task manager and my PC was using 99% of RAM, at idle. So restarted and it was fine, but now im running at 53% at idle and i am a little confused as my task manager isnt showing any program hogging ram to such a degree. i have 16gb of ram and this really shouldnt happen. 

Can anyone help meee???

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Have you tried to find out what is eating up your memory in the task manager with selecting the processes tab showing processes from all users?

What O.S. are you using?

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5 hours ago, zanthros said:

Have you tried to find out what is eating up your memory in the task manager with selecting the processes tab showing processes from all users?

What O.S. are you using?

Windows 10 and i'm the only user on the PC. 

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And what does the task manager / processes from all users sow is using up your memory? How long has the O.S been installed?

                  Did I help you to fix your problem or at least did offer somewhat valuable advice? Consider giving my post a "informative" or "thumbs up".

SYSTEM 2: Modded G3 case with Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L, Intel E8600 (O.C to 4.2GHz.), 4GB GSkill PC8500, Nvidia 8800GTS (512M), Cooling provided by Scythe Big Shrunkin, HDD 1 = OSX 10.9.5, HDD 2 = Windows 7 Pro X64. (Placed 3rd in MacMod  of the year 2012) (For info see:  http://insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285641-and-the-winner-for-macmod-of-2012-is/

LAPTOP: Inspiron 1720, Modded BIOS, X9000 Core 2 extreme OC'ed and undervolted to 3.4GHz (windows only) , 6GB DDR2 800, 8600M GT, 1920x1200 Glossy display, Sigmatel Audio, 2 Kingston HyperX 120GB drives (1 with Windows 7 x64 pro & 1 with OSX 10.9.5) X9000 Processor World Record Holder since 02/2013 on Geekbench 2 : http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench2/search?dir=desc&q=x9000&sort=score

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On 14-10-2016 at 11:16 PM, jdubs said:

You can give this application to take a shot to determine where (ambiguously) the memory is being taken up.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/rammap.aspx

 

It won't get you specifics, but it's a good place to start.

How would one use this date to figure out whats wrong? 

What value should be high or low if you have a memory leak?

 

Edit:

I guess you should run this when you notice the memory leak it self?

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