Windows 10 memory leak?

carzacc · June 13, 2016

I saw that on the Internet many people have this problem (me included) on Windows 10, 8.1 and 7.

In my PC I have 8 GB of RAM of which 1.1 GB is reserved to the iGPU of the APU.

In the "Users" tab of the Task Manager it shows 69% memory usage (almost 5 GB) but in the list of the Users the only user listed (myself) only takes up 750,3 MB of that.

poolmon.exe used to show that rdyboost.sys (it showed as smNp but in pooltag.txt it said it was related to rdyboost.sys) was using a lot of RAM and googling I found out that disabling Superfetch in services.msc fixes the issue.

I reboot and now the problem is still not fixed, but poolmon shows CM31 (Configuration Manager) as the one that uses the most RAM even if it's only 170 MB

GoodBytes · June 13, 2016

Make sure you have the latest drivers for everything you have.

carzacc · June 14, 2016

18 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Make sure you have the latest drivers for everything you have.

The AMD graphics drivers are updated, I updated the audio drivers a couple of months ago, I might try updating the Chipset and LAN drivers, the peripherals I use are pretty cheap and generic (for the mouse and keyboard I use the drivers that WIndows automatically installs since the mouse is from a no-name Italian company that didn't bother releasing drivers on their site and the keyboard is from Trust and I can't find online drivers for it too, I have a steering wheel from Thrustmaster always plugged in, I installed the drivers from their site when I bought the computer, I used it with three different computers and never had RAM problems on those, so I would say it's not the problem), I guess that the problem is with Windows itself, not any external drivers, but I've never faced an issue like this where I can't find what the source of the leak is.