Memory Leak? Fix?

[gerneio]

Take a look at the attached screenshots...

 

 

 

 

As you can see, I am nearing 100% memory utilization, which is just absurd! What I have noticed is that day after day, this constant memory usage will increase by 1 to 2 GB, and as you can see from the screenshots, my PC has only been on for 7 days and has increased to a consistent 14 GB of memory utilization. After a fresh reboot this does go down, but it start off at about 6 to 8 GB of utilization. In the processes tab, I see nothing that's hogging up all this memory. The highest one is Chrome, as expected, but not 14 GB worth.

 

So somehow, somewhere, I have a program installed that has a memory leak or just bad memory management system. How can I go about investigating this further? Any particular software capable of diagnosing this?

 

I am not exactly sure when it started, I just remember one time coming home a couple weeks ago to my computer totally locked up, indicating a high usage of memory. A reboot helped, but again the memory utilization started off at like 8 GB. Ever since then, I've been keeping Task Manager open so that I can actively monitor it. The issues is not going away and starting to become a nuisance.

 

Now, I just so happened to have upgraded to Ryzen about 2 to three weeks ago, entailing a new mobo, CPU, and RAM, which falls closely inline with this ordeal. I'm not sure if this was an issue previously as I did not monitor my memory usage that closely and probably restarted my rig at least once every week or so. Could this be an issue with the DDR4 RAM I have installed?

 

The only thing I have tried thus far is turn off paging, but as you can see the issue persisted since I am now here.

 

Any suggestions??

 

Gerneio

[gerneio]

In the mean time, I have gone ahead an swapped in a different set of DDR4 memory, just to see what happen. Currently, after boot, utilization is at 3.5 GB, which is vastly different from the other set. Strange... I did not think this to be a hardware issue, but only time will tell!

 

Please continue to post your opinions and suggestions!