10GB of 16GB ram being used, for no reason - no fix or diagnostic

[Detective_Fox]

I've suddenly became stuck with this problem whenever I wanted to use Adobe Premiere or Photoshop.

Like the title, 10GB of RAM are being used, with no apparent processes shown either on the task manager or resource monitor.

 

I've been searching for a diagnostic check or repair for a month, with so far no improvement whatsoever.
I did try rebooting, but the problems seem to persist.

If there's anyway to solve or prevent this problem, that would be great to know.

 

Specs are shown in one of the screenshots, however I'm not too sure of the BIOS version or wattage of the PSU I'm currently using.

 

 

[PowerChaos]

Do you created a ramdisk ? Or use cach optimalisation ?

 

also do a memtest or run a live Linux to see ram usage

 

if in Linux the ram is also high then the ramtest will probably find errors

 

also disable page file in windows or manual assign 4gb pagefile

as I see that you got 20gb of pagefile And that slows down the PC a lot 

 

greets from PowerChaos 

[rcmaehl]

• Rearrange your RAM Sticks to see if that resolves it. 
• Run MalwareBytes as there's been cryptomining malware lately that's pretty good at hiding from task manager

[kirashi]

You have malware. See my screenshot with highlights below. First order of business is uninstalling all highlighted software, then running ADWCleaner, running MBAM, and then running ADWCleaner again to attempt to eradicate all traces of it from your system.

 

Only then would I look to see if there is still high RAM usage on your system.

(attach a screenshot of the DETAILS tab from task manager, sorted by the MEMORY column.)

 

[Detective_Fox]

So far I've used Malwarebytes, and fixed up the pagefile settings and as of a reboot, RAM usage dropped to just 3GB.

I would not yet say that the problem is fixed. As one time I tried to fix the issue, at first the usage was lower than it was previously, however the problem came back.

I'll add more updates to this post.

[Detective_Fox]

So far problems haven't persisted, thanks for the use of Malwarebytes and changes to the pagefile sizes, which helped out cutting down the 10gb worth of used memory.

Although I did try some previous anti-malware software before, and the problem yet persisted.

 

However, I did notice a equally high use of standby memory, as opposed to free memory. So far no extra problems, and I would recommend trying out the fixes I agreed to.