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Identifying root cause of high RAM usage in Paged Pool?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202630910 views
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I pulled up my Task Manager today and found that out of my 16GB of RAM, 14.5GB was "in use". Naturally, I switch to the Processes tab, click "show processes by all users", and sort by Working Set - only to find that all the processes listed in Task Manager together only use up ~3GB of RAM. I've als…

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Same problem here. I found that these instructions for finding the issue with non-paged pool also work for paged pool. This requires installing a 2gb windows driver kit package from Microsoft. I'm not sure if visual studio is necessary, even though …

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