Memory fills up without dumping itself.

[Clonzoo]

Okay. So cutting right to the chase. It seems that my ram will not dump itself. So, lets say I wanna play world of warcraft, I start it up and play for 2 hours and then close it and watch some videos on youtube or die a little inside while scrolling through facebook. I decide that I wanna play Subnautica, launch it up and start to play swimming around in the terrifying open ocean. I start lagging and the ocean won't load kinda like in Minecraft when your chunks won't load. I close the game and do some youtube and the videos will start to lag. At this point my memory usage will probably be around 95% I can only assume that if it goes up to 99 or a 100% I will get the oh so dreaded BSOD. I think I might have gotten it once when I left my computer and came back to it being restarted. I have run both windows ram test aswell as Memtest which find no errors. I have looked for viruses with both Windows defender and Avast and I have also ran Ccleaner several times to no avail (Doubt that Ccleaner would be able to fix it anyways, but it was worth a shot) Now I am currently sitting at 87% so I will restart my computer now after I hit post now as it is curently sitting at 87% used with google chrome open taking the most which is about 250 mb... 

 

My specs are available in my profile. I have also made sure all my drivers are up to date. And there are no windows updates to be found. If you guys need anything else just tell me and I will provide. Anyways, brb, restarting the computer.

[patrickjp93]

Browsers have memory leaks. They don't free up all of their acquired memory when closed. It's one of the dangers of programming in C/C++ and using dynamic allocation (not that you ever should these days). If programmers aren't perfect, memory leaks and is never freed. Restart your machine and either learn to use Edge/Opera (Chrome is terrible with memory leaks), and next time, buy a machine with more memory.

 

Edit: So you're not using a laptop with 2GB...

 

Give us a screenshot of your task manager applications ranked by memory.

[rhyseyness]

3 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Browsers have memory leaks. They don't free up all of their acquired memory when closed. It's one of the dangers of programming in C/C++ and using dynamic allocation (not that you ever should these days). If programmers aren't perfect, memory leaks and is never freed. Restart your machine and either learn to use Edge/Opera (Chrome is terrible with memory leaks), and next time, buy a machine with more memory.

16Gig of ram should be plenty for chrome even with a LOT of tabs open.

Are you really suggesting that his RAM usage is sitting at 90% from one chrome tab?

I understand memory leaks are a thing, but c'mon.

[patrickjp93]

1 minute ago, rhyseyness said:

16Gig of ram should be plenty for chrome even with a LOT of tabs open.

Are you really suggesting that his RAM usage is sitting at 90% from one chrome tab?

I understand memory leaks are a thing, but c'mon.

It took you that long to read and reply? See the edits.

[Clonzoo]

[TheNuzziNuzz]

20 minutes ago, Clonzoo said:

 

Try replicating the problem discribed in your original post, but instead of chrome, try a different browser and see if the same problem occurs.

[You_are_a_cunt]

Uninstall Killer Network Manager and you'll be golden.

 

It's been causing memory leaks ever since Windows 8

[Clonzoo]

Just reinstalled the network driver to the driver only with no manager or killer network suite. I will check back later to see if that resolves it. As for chrome and memory leaks. I did go a day without using only Edge and at the end of the day I still had my memory fill up. Hoping that @revsilverspine suggestions fixed this shite. I'll get back to you once I know if it did or not