Windows 10 Standby Memory Bug

[BrownZeus]

Hey all,

 

I didn't see any forum posts about this topic so I decided I'd bring it up.

 

Does no one care about the Windows 10 Memory Leak bug?

 

From what I can tell it doesn't affect all systems, but affects some. For example I have 4 Windows 10 Machines, 1 laptop from work, 2 personal laptops, and my desktop rig. It seems only my desktop rig has the issue.

 

At first I thought it was just a general memory leak caused by some program or another on my PC, and after some time trying to pinpoint the issue, I decided I'll just go ahead and resinstall windows, and lo and behold the problem stills persisted. So I went to he internet and found that it is straight up just a bug that Microsoft seemingly hasn't addressed in 2 years it seems. When I first built my PC it wasn't an issue at all and really only noticed it recently.

 

Does anyone else have this issue? And if you do lets talk about it. Shed some light on it, maybe someone on the LTT team has the issue too and hasn't noticed it yet. We're a large community if we raise enough of a spotlight on the issue Microsoft might finally do something.

 

Since it was a problem I only recently started experiencing or noticing I also tried changing RAM slots on my Motherboard, and even went out and swapped in a new 16gb (8x2) kit, none of those attempts worked either

The only work around I've found to be helpful is some windows vista era tool to clear my standby memory, downside is I have to go and manually clear the memory myself and keep an eye on my memory usage while I'm gaming or something. Luckily for me it's slow enough for me to not have to worry about it for an hour or two at a time, but at the end of the day, I shouldn't have to do it in the first place.

 

I've reported the bug and even if you don't experience the bug, I think it'd be helpful for all of us that are experiencing the bug that you also report the issue

[GoodBytes]

17 hours ago, BrownZeus said:

Hey all,

 

I didn't see any forum posts about this topic so I decided I'd bring it up.

 

Does no one care about the Windows 10 Memory Leak bug?

 

From what I can tell it doesn't affect all systems, but affects some. For example I have 4 Windows 10 Machines, 1 laptop from work, 2 personal laptops, and my desktop rig. It seems only my desktop rig has the issue.

 

At first I thought it was just a general memory leak caused by some program or another on my PC, and after some time trying to pinpoint the issue, I decided I'll just go ahead and resinstall windows, and lo and behold the problem stills persisted. So I went to he internet and found that it is straight up just a bug that Microsoft seemingly hasn't addressed in 2 years it seems. When I first built my PC it wasn't an issue at all and really only noticed it recently.

 

Does anyone else have this issue? And if you do lets talk about it. Shed some light on it, maybe someone on the LTT team has the issue too and hasn't noticed it yet. We're a large community if we raise enough of a spotlight on the issue Microsoft might finally do something.

 

Since it was a problem I only recently started experiencing or noticing I also tried changing RAM slots on my Motherboard, and even went out and swapped in a new 16gb (8x2) kit, none of those attempts worked either

The only work around I've found to be helpful is some windows vista era tool to clear my standby memory, downside is I have to go and manually clear the memory myself and keep an eye on my memory usage while I'm gaming or something. Luckily for me it's slow enough for me to not have to worry about it for an hour or two at a time, but at the end of the day, I shouldn't have to do it in the first place.

 

I've reported the bug and even if you don't experience the bug, I think it'd be helpful for all of us that are experiencing the bug that you also report the issue

To me it sounds like a driver that has a memory leak, not Windows.

 

[BrownZeus]

On 8/5/2019 at 12:25 PM, GoodBytes said:

To me it sounds like a driver that has a memory leak, not Windows.

 

I wouldn't mind considering that idea, however it is an issue multiple people are experiencing

[tech.guru]

you are going to have to be more specific...

Microsoft fixes memory leaks, and general performance and stability issues all the time with its software through quality updates. 

[BrownZeus]

4 minutes ago, tech.guru said:

you are going to have to be more specific...

Microsoft fixes memory leaks, and general performance and stability issues all the time with its software through quality updates. 

Don't really know which specifics to give. The Standby Memory (Cache) slowly gets filled up to the point windows has to start writing to the cache to a page file

[tech.guru]

you mean this bug,

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-not-releasing-standby-memory-when/874484bc-3c4d-4f0f-83ed-000e9dab971b?auth=1

 

which isnt a bug at all? its a program or driver not releasing memory when closed.

[BrownZeus]

2 minutes ago, tech.guru said:

you mean this bug,

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-not-releasing-standby-memory-when/874484bc-3c4d-4f0f-83ed-000e9dab971b?auth=1

 

which isnt a bug at all? its a program or driver not releasing memory when closed.

There are other posts that highlight the problem as a Windows issue. I was having this issue with a fresh install of my system. The only fix that given anywhere is installing Rammap or scheduling your own task that clears stand by memory.

 

Searching "Windows 10 not release standby memory" turns up the post you linked plus a few others. Inspecting Commit sizes per program in resource monitor doesn't appear to be turning up anything that could be culprit (Although this could be a miss on my part)