Unusual high ram usage.

[glorithan]

Here is my task manager view of my Ram: http://imgur.com/IGtn4aO

and here is the list of processes sorted from high to low in ram usage: http://imgur.com/4OJ4Eqo

I cant find where all the ram is going to.

I only have 2 gigs cached. Where is it all going?

[vesseblah]

That's really strange, maybe it's reported wrong. You can turn off pagefile btw, with 16GB RAM you won't go OOM anytime soon. Especially if you have SSD you should do it.

[DeltrusDisc]

I daresay there may be a memory leak here...

Have you ever run memtest 86+?

http://www.memtest86.com/

[glorithan]

I havent tried a memtest, I will download it and try it now. And I ma not familiar with pagefile. What would I gain by turning it off?

[DeltrusDisc]

Just to make sure, you understand how to run memtest right? Burn it to a CD/DVD and boot to it via BIOS settings and just let it autorun for a while, at least 1 or 2 passes should tell you what's up.

[n0cturnal]

I daresay there may be a memory leak here...

Have you ever run memtest 86+?

http://www.memtest86.com/

Memory leaks are fault in software, memtest won't do anything about that.

[glorithan]

Memory leaks are fault in software, memtest won't do anything about that.

What would you recommend for finding memory leaks then?

Just to make sure, you understand how to run memtest right? Burn it to a CD/DVD and boot to it via BIOS settings and just let it autorun for a while, at least 1 or 2 passes should tell you what's up.

No, I actually dont. I tried to extract it onto a flash drive and boot from it butt it said missing OS.

[n0cturnal]

What would you recommend for finding memory leaks then?

RAMMap might be able to give you some info.
VMMap can help you take a closer look if you find anything with RAMMap that looks funny.

[Deleted]

Windows 8 (x64) it seems, now if it was normal memory leak it should show at some app in processes.

Check the peformance tab -> open resource monitor ->Memory -> Working set (VM suspended etc. memory usage shows here)

also see catalyst runnig so amd/ati card somewhere also?.. BF3 seems to cause memory leaks in catalyst drivers in windows 8 (for some)
anything else mostlikely some buggy driver with memory leak... update drivers. (system running for days)

[glorithan]

Windows 8 (x64) it seems, now if it was normal memory leak it should show at some app in processes.

Check the peformance tab -> open resource monitor ->Memory -> Working set (VM suspended etc. memory usage shows here)

also see catalyst runnig so amd/ati card somewhere also?.. BF3 seems to cause memory leaks in catalyst drivers in windows 8 (for some)
anything else most likely some buggy driver with memory leak... update drivers. (system running for days)

I do have an amd radeon card. It seems to only happen after I play rift, as since I restarted my PC earlier it has been running fine. I checked and I do have full up to date drivers.

I could not find anything from this year about rift and memory leak though so I am not sure. with wow, twitch, skype, and 5 chrome tabs open im sitting at 39% memory usage which is sooo much better then what I was at.