Huge Non Paged Pool

[dropthatpie]

Hey guys,

 

I am really triggered by my huge 2,3 gb non paged pool (I have 8 GB of RAM in total). How do I fix this?

 

specs:

i5-7600k 4,5 GHz

Gigabyte Z270-HD3P bios version F8

Windows 10 Home 64 Bit

2x4 GB 2400 MHz DDDR4 (dont know which brand)

HKC 650W Silent Power-supply

 

 

 

[Tabs]

I have helped people with this problem in the past.

 

Non-Paged pool (and Paged pool) memory usage is explicitly driver-related, either physical or virtual.

 

Give me a moment to find some of my previous posts explaining this, as the advice is still relevant.

[Mira Yurizaki]

It's usually a driver leaking memory. And usually whenever I've encountered people here with this problem, it's the network driver.

[Tabs]

@dropthatpie

 

Have a look through this thread. You'll want to use poolmon to determine which driver is consuming the largest amount of Non-Paged pool, and then find out if you can upgrade/replace the driver, or disable it if it's a virtual driver.

[Tabs]

7 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It's usually a driver leaking memory. And usually whenever I've encountered people here with this problem, it's the network driver.

On modern consumer systems this is completely accurate. All of the cases I've personally helped with on the forums in the last few months have been network stack related, in many cases Atheros Killer chipsets. In my anecdotal experience, prior to KMDF 1.13 (and to some extent, UMDF 2.0) introduced in Windows 8.1, this problem was most common with storage drivers.

[dropthatpie]

11 hours ago, Tabs said:

@dropthatpie

 

Have a look through this thread. You'll want to use poolmon to determine which driver is consuming the largest amount of Non-Paged pool, and then find out if you can upgrade/replace the driver, or disable it if it's a virtual driver.

I will look at this, thank you!

[dropthatpie]

18 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It's usually a driver leaking memory. And usually whenever I've encountered people here with this problem, it's the network driver.

It was the Samsung Magician driver! But still thanks

[dropthatpie]

18 hours ago, Tabs said:

@dropthatpie

 

Have a look through this thread. You'll want to use poolmon to determine which driver is consuming the largest amount of Non-Paged pool, and then find out if you can upgrade/replace the driver, or disable it if it's a virtual driver.

I fixed it by removing the Samsung Magician driver. Thanks!

[Mira Yurizaki]

Just now, dropthatpie said:

It was the Samsung Magician driver! But still thanks

That's a tool, so if you don't really need it (it's useful to update firmware, but I usually don't recommend it unless it fixes a serious performance issue), I suggest uninstalling it.