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    Nasty Windows 10 Memory Leak

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by aduy, Feb 26, 2016.

  1. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    I upgraded my clevo to windows 10 last year and at first it was fine. Last december I went to play some battlefield with a friend and i was only getting about 15 fps, usually i get upwards of 70. I checked everything out and narrowed it down to a memory leak. If I restart the computer the memory usage starts out at around 17% and then slowly builds over several hours to about 70%. Ive tried to determine what is using so much memory using first the task manager, then i went on to a tool called poolmon.exe(a tool from microsoft) but I cant seem to narrow down what exactly is causing the problem. ive got the performance monitor running now showing the paged and non paged memory usage, ill post the graph when its gotten up to about 60%.

    From what I understand, some of my drivers are having a problem with something in windows 10, and this is causing the problem.

    I know im not the only one with this problem, since there are about 50 or 60 youtube videos showing how to solve the problem, but none of them seem to be working, they are all pretty much bandaids for the problem.
     
  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    I have had games with memory leaks, get an low memory warning after playing for a while, the memory app i have linked below, just add the game to the list and it will attempt to keep the game memory usage getting out of control, never tried it in Win10 only Win8

    http://main.kerkia.com/Products/Minimem/Description.aspx

    John.
     
  3. aduy

    aduy Keeping it cool since 93'

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    It has nothing to do with the game, I just noticed it when playing the game one time. the issue happens all the time, after a day or two of on time it becomes difficult to even use the browser. its a memory leak and im not sure whats causing it. im basically leaking 20 MB of ram to this leak every minute.

    well here it is, basically loosig memory slowly over the course of hours.
     

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  4. pete962

    pete962 Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you look at resource monitor/memory, that should show you what's eating up the memory. I would disable paging to make it less confusing, because probably it's the paging that slows everything down.
    Are you using killer network? If so, at least update it.