Track Down Memory Leak
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I think a kernel mode driver is chewing up all of the memory in my company laptop. The Task Manager shows no process using an excessive amount of memory, but by the end of the day, all 16 GB of RAM is filled up and the page file is at its max. And no, the total RAM usage of all running user mode processes doesn't add up to 16 GB. The only thing that fixes it is to restart the system. Signing out and back in doesn't fix it. If it is a kernel mode driver doing it, how can I track down which one it is?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think a kernel mode driver is chewing up all of the memory in my company laptop. The Task Manager shows no process using an excessive amount of memory, but by the end of the day, all 16 GB of RAM is filled up and the page file is at its max. And no, the total RAM usage of all running user mode processes doesn't add up to 16 GB. The only thing that fixes it is to restart the system. Signing out and back in doesn't fix it. If it is a kernel mode driver doing it, how can I track down which one it is?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
In Windows Task Manager you might want to look at: PID CPU Mem Usage Handles USER Objects I/O Reads I/O Read Bytes Keep the Task Manager open and watch to see if a process is doing this. If not then you might be right. Thank you for asking.
