Unusually high ram usage

[Kangarstar]

I'm using 8-10gigs of ram with nothing running and no VMs.

I looked in rammap problem seems to be with driver locked ram and I don't really know what that is.
forums reccommended to use the windows assessment console as the performance recorder.

 

Here's all the screenshots hope a pro can help!

 

PS: There are no assessment console screenshots because it restarted the pc and it cleared the ram.

 

Edition Windows 10 Education

Version 20H2

Installed on ‎15/‎11/‎2020

OS build 19042.685

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0

 

[mikedubayou]

Open up task manager and go to processes tab. Sort by memory usage and post what you see is taking up so much memory there. 
 

EDIT - you did that, I’m sorry. I’m on my phone and the last pic didn’t load originally. 
 

EDIT 2 - so you restarted windows and it cleared the problem? Does it keep happening shortly after each restart?

 

EDIT 3 - After doing some research, it appears driver locked system memory is memory that is allocated by Hyper-V to your VMs. You did say you use VMs, but didn’t have any running at the moment. My guess is you still have hyper-v running and it is reserving some memory ready to launch a VM when asked. I don’t use Hyper-V, so I can’t speak on any specifics, but look at that to fix your problem. Try to force close it and make sure no background processes are running in the background. 

[Kangarstar]

I have not used VMs on this machine, I just downloaded VirtualBox for work but have not used it yet.

As you said, when I restart the PC the driverlocked ram goes back to near 0 in rammap but It ramps back up to no more than 5 gigs after a few hours and I haven't tested it thouroughly but it seems to happen faster when the PC is sleeping/ idling.

I just clean booted + safe mode I will see if it's back in a couple hours

[Kangarstar]

1 hour ago, mikedubayou said:

Open up task manager and go to processes tab. Sort by memory usage and post what you see is taking up so much memory there. 
 

EDIT - you did that, I’m sorry. I’m on my phone and the last pic didn’t load originally. 
 

EDIT 2 - so you restarted windows and it cleared the problem? Does it keep happening shortly after each restart?

 

EDIT 3 - After doing some research, it appears driver locked system memory is memory that is allocated by Hyper-V to your VMs. You did say you use VMs, but didn’t have any running at the moment. My guess is you still have hyper-v running and it is reserving some memory ready to launch a VM when asked. I don’t use Hyper-V, so I can’t speak on any specifics, but look at that to fix your problem. Try to force close it and make sure no background processes are running in the background. 

I have not used VMs on this machine, I just downloaded VirtualBox for work but have not used it yet.

As you said, when I restart the PC the driverlocked ram goes back to near 0 in rammap but It ramps back up to no more than 5 gigs after a few hours and I haven't tested it thouroughly but it seems to happen faster when the PC is sleeping/ idling.

I just clean booted + safe mode I will see if it's back in a couple hours