Hello,

It has been several months now that my computer is having memory leaks. When I turn it on and start all of my usual applications (Intellij, SQL Developper, Chrome, a VPN) it consumes AROUND 40% of my 16GB of RAM.
The consumption seems to go up as the day progress and after 1 or 2 days it will get up to 95-99% and the computer will start to get slower. I will eventually need to reboot.

The thing is even though the task manager tells me 99% of the RAM is consumed, if I add the memory consumed by all applications it will hardly reach 4GB (I tried to attach an image, hopefully, it works).

I am not sure how to try and investigate the problem. I also LOOKED at Poolmon but once again there is nothing consuming more than 100Mb.

I also tried to update drivers and change a registry entry but none of these helped.

Any idea of what I could try to do to either pinpoint the CAUSE or solve the problem?

Thank you!
Sphax



[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Hey there,

I've never really had any issues with my RAM, but have a look on this and this may help to LOCATE the issue, I hope.

http://www.pcgamer.com/dealing-with-memory-leaks/

Anyway hope it helps Quote from: Sphax on September 07, 2017, 09:07:34 AM

Hello,

It has been several months now that my computer is having memory leaks. When I turn it on and start all of my usual applications (Intellij, SQL Developper, Chrome, a VPN) it consumes around 40% of my 16GB of RAM.
The consumption seems to go up as the day progress and after 1 or 2 days it will get up to 95-99% and the computer will start to get slower. I will eventually need to reboot.

The thing is even though the task manager tells me 99% of the RAM is consumed, if I add the memory consumed by all applications it will hardly reach 4GB (I tried to attach an image, hopefully, it works).

I am not sure how to try and investigate the problem. I also looked at Poolmon but once again there is nothing consuming more than 100Mb.

I also tried to update drivers and change a registry entry but none of these helped.

Any idea of what I could try to do to either pinpoint the cause or solve the problem?

Thank you!
Sphax

Hey there,

I've never really had any issues with my RAM, but have a look on this and this may help to locate the issue, I hope.

http://www.pcgamer.com/dealing-with-memory-leaks/

Anyway hope it helps

Try not to have so many browsers executing at once. Also, depending on your VPN, you may be accessing 8 servers and pulling in so much traffic it is causing the memory leaks through bad packets and routers not correctly configured.. and poor communication and VPN settings. It has to tax the crap out of your RAM. I bet if you look at you logs you would see untold rejected internet traffic and critical errors all over.. A sick system is more susceptible to catching a virus ..

Do you have a Network adapter from the manufacturer "Killer Networks"? If so, remove the accompanying software- it has a memory leak.