High memory usage by services (Windows 10)

[Stroz]

I've recently been having insane system instability the past few days and I happened to notice that my PC is using INSANE amounts of RAM. This slowly builds up after my PC has been on for a few hours until it locks up and either crashes or forces me to restart it. Not sure how I can pinpoint this memory leak. Any help is appreciated.

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 1500x Stock

GTX 1060 6GB Stock

16 GB DDR4 3000 Mhz

Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3

OS on SSD

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[homeap5]

Check if Windows update is working.

[Stroz]

Windows is fully updated

[homeap5]

What process is using your Windows most at the time?

[Stroz]

This just started happening out of nowhere a few days ago, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the programs I run. I just notice that the memory usage of all of the services on my PC steadily increase the longer my PC is turned on until it crashes.

[homeap5]

This must be related to something. Maybe some service is blocked by firewall or AV is involved. Services are not working for no reason, they're used by many programs, so it may be related to program you're running.

[Caennanu]

To be honest, the first thing that comes to mind is, why are these processes using so much memory.

So i check my own list, and indeed most of mine aren't even using 1mb.

And for this, i got to ask. Are you a user who turns his system off, or do you keep it in standby or hibernate?

 

The first thing i would do, is to just terminate the services and see if they restart.

After that i would start to check them 1 by 1 starting with the one with highest usage to see what it is and what uses it. If i don't find it important enough, i would disable it via the services menu, or atleast set it to manual or ask me when it wants to be started.

 

[Stroz]

I do not normally turn my system off. But because of the service issue the PC freezes itself so I am forced to restart it. No matter what kind of programs I use the memory usage always steadily increases. I've tried updating windows, and disabling the SysMain Superfetch service.

[Caennanu]

Don't forget to tag people, or use the quote function in your reply. This gives others a notification to see you've reacted

 

Can you try running ram map, maybe that will explain a bit?

[Stroz]

11 hours ago, Caennanu said:

Don't forget to tag people, or use the quote function in your reply. This gives others a notification to see you've reacted

 

Can you try running ram map, maybe that will explain a bit?

I've fixed it. I just did a Windows reinstall and it appears to have fixed the problem.

[homeap5]

3 hours ago, Stroz said:

I've fixed it. I just did a Windows reinstall and it appears to have fixed the problem.

Not really. You just made workaround, you still don't know what the problem was.

[Stroz]

5 hours ago, homeap5 said:

Not really. You just made workaround, you still don't know what the problem was.

I'm assuming it was just a corrupted Windows file that happened during an update or something. I did just a windows reinstall, and retained all of my files and programs. So it obviously was just a Windows issue.

[homeap5]

4 hours ago, Stroz said:

I'm assuming it was just a corrupted Windows file that happened during an update or something. I did just a windows reinstall, and retained all of my files and programs. So it obviously was just a Windows issue.

No, it may be anything. If you want to be sure, next time try to find a problem. You'll learn something that way about your os. File corruption is very rare and is mostly related to broken hardware. Your new installation works, so it was not hardware problem. It's always good to know what causes problem so next time when you'll have the same problem, you will know what to do instead of reinstalling.

[Elbow]

I've had similar issues but with CPU usage for Windows 10 LTSC. It started a couple of weeks ago that some random process (from windows, nividia, game etc) would randomly push CPU usage to 100% and crash my computer. I read about other Windows 10 users having this issue as well and it was due to a recent update but as far as I understand LTSC shouldn't be installing updates on it's own in the first place (only get error 0x80080005 if I try updating manually) so no idea why I'm getting it too. Tried half a dozen fixes but nothing seems to be working.

 

Honestly stumped on how to deal with this.