Very high RAM usage (90% ish)

[davidgr95]

So, recently, my RAM usage has been VERY HIGH.  I have Spotify, CSGO, Steam and 2-5 Chrome tabs open, yet myr RAM usage is around 90% of 16 GB. 
Specs: 
i7-6700k @ 4.4GHz

16GB RAM

MSI Gaming M3 Mobo
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
and unimportant stuff.

Any help as to waht is wrong?

[JJVGaming]

can you post a photo of your task manager from ascending to descending order?

[WereCat]

Check RESOURCE MONITOR in Task Manager

[davidgr95]

[Luke Jackson]

Have you scanned your computer with something like Malwarebytes? Potentially dangerous malware might make such thing happen. Also, if your PC is running Windows 10, always make sure that Windows Defender is up to date.

Also make sure you have CCleaner installed so that you can clean temp files in a secure way.

[davidgr95]

3 minutes ago, Luke Jackson said:

Have you scanned your computer with something like Malwarebytes? Potentially dangerous malware might make such thing happen. Also, if your PC is running Windows 10, always make sure that Windows Defender is up to date.

Also make sure you have CCleaner installed so that you can clean temp files in a secure way.

I'll try all these.  Defender is always up to date and scans quite often, but I'll still double check to be sure.

[DrMikeNZ]

I have had windows explorer memory leaks on all of my Windows 10 systems in the last 3 weeks, with over 20GB RAM used by windows explorer. Restarting the task fixed the issue. Other common windows related memory leaks are svchost.exe, or it could be malware. If it is a windows process that is causing the problem restarting the PC does not resolve the issue, then reinstalling windows is often the best long term solution.

 

Sometimes the problematic processes do not show in the task manager process tab, but should show in the resource monitor.

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[Mira Yurizaki]

Go to the "Performance" tab, select "Memory", and look for "Non paged pool" in the lower parts. If that's accounting for your RAM usage, you most likely have a leaky driver. And it's probably the network one.

[davidgr95]

2 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Go to the "Performance" tab, select "Memory", and look for "Non paged pool" in the lower parts. If that's accounting for your RAM usage, you most likely have a leaky driver. And it's probably the network one.

10.7 GB non-paged pool........

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, wotm said:

10.7 GB non-paged pool........

Do you happen to have a Killer network card or something?

[davidgr95]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Do you happen to have a Killer network card or something?

Yeah that's what is on my motherboard

[Mira Yurizaki]

3 minutes ago, wotm said:

Yeah that's what is on my motherboard

Yeah, Killer stuff has been known to leak memory. So I propose two COAs:

• Remove the network driver suite and hope Windows can use a default driver.
• Use the "Killer network driver (driver only)" link on https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z170A-GAMING-M3.html#down-driver&Win10 64

[davidgr95]

4 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Yeah, Killer stuff has been known to leak memory. So I propose two COAs:

• Remove the network driver suite and hope Windows can use a default driver.
• Use the "Killer network driver (driver only)" link on https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z170A-GAMING-M3.html#down-driver&Win10 64

Thanks man, I'll try that after this game of comp CSGO ^^