Something is eating my RAM

[SatansBestBuddy]

I'm at the end of my rope trying to figure this out.

Recently, my computer has been freezing up, hard, and bringing up task manager shows that something has my RAM maxed out:


At first I just think it's Opera being full, but then a day later it happens again, and I don't even have a web browser open.
So I run a virus scan, and it doesn't detect anything.
A friend suggests it could be faulty RAM, so I run a test on that, it passes:


Another friend suggests I use RamMap, so I download that and leave it open at all times, since trying to open it when my RAM is already maxed wouldn't be helpful.

I had it open during another freeze today and got this:


I wish I took a picture when I was flipping through the tabs, but nothing used more than 200mb of ram so I didn't think of it.

After a restart (which took 5:58 from hitting the button to being in control again), I reopened it and it looks like this:


... and I have no idea what's going on.

I have two new sticks in the mail already, so I'm gonna try replacing the sticks I got and see if that works, but otherwise I'm completely at a loss for what's even going wrong.

Anybody here ever have similar issues with RAM just maxing itself out on nothing?

[Freakwise]

I don't want to bring bad news but, ram maxing it seft out could be one of a problem your computer is having a virus....

Other than that go to task manager>process and then select ram and it would be sorted from highest to lowest 

 

[Doug_Dangger]

You can download Linux on a flash drive and boot to it (don't install).

Look at the load then.  If everything is fine, like Liam said, virus/malware.

[SorryBella]

10 minutes ago, SatansBestBuddy said:

recently, my computer has been freezing up, hard, and bringing up task manager shows that something has my RAM maxed out:

It hits the RAM and SSD write, it can possibly be virus, or a massive background work. Can you give us screenshot of the details tab instead?

[SatansBestBuddy]

Avira and Malwarebytes both came back with clean results for virus scanning, if there's another anti-virus worth checking out I'm all ears

the process tab on Task Manager showed nothing over 200mb in use, same with the details tab, I'll try to get screenshots of both when the issue happens again

I should also note it's completely random, I've had it happen morning, noon and nights, both when I was busy at my computer and getting up and leaving it for 20 minutes, just no pattern that I've been able to spot so far

[RAM555789]

Honestly might be worth backing up any critical data and doing a clean install of windows.

[SatansBestBuddy]

... yeah but I was really hoping not to.

Buddy pointed out that my Non-paged pool getting up to 15.2gb means it's probably a driver issue, so I'm gonna start looking into that now.

[Mister Woof]

38 minutes ago, RAM555789 said:

Honestly might be worth backing up any critical data and doing a clean install of windows.

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[TrigrH]

My money is on your Killer™ E2200 network drivers being out of date. The old killer drivers leaked all traffic into your ram filling it up.

[SatansBestBuddy]

On 4/23/2021 at 10:27 PM, TrigrH said:

My money is on your Killer™ E2200 network drivers being out of date. The old killer drivers leaked all traffic into your ram filling it up.

lol okay, so I was apparently still using Killer Network Manager v1.1.xxxx and they're up to Killer Control Center v2.4.xxxx, so yeah I was wildly out of date.

Thank you for the observant eye, good sir.

Interesting that I haven't had this issue crop up until this month, though.


... the control panel for this is on the Microsoft Store and can't be downloaded.
Still got the driver itself off the website so whatever.

Hopefully this is it but I'll still be keeping my eye on things.