I am dealing with an unbearable non-paged pool memory leak
the resources online I'm finding for this either do not work, aren't what I'm looking for, are way over my head, or recommend a reinstall.
I will literally send 10 dollars PayPal to someone who can walk me through how to fix this
Did you try turning it off and back on again.
>>54968224
yeah, restarting will wipe it but it goes up by about a gigabyre per hour. I keep my computer on and make it sleep overnight so I dont like having to reboot constantly, plus I want a permanent solution
Dude that's the overhead of the botnet
>>54968464
Very helpful
>>54968090
Just install more RAM so that by the time the leak becomes overwhelming, Microsoft will have released an Update that'd require you to reboot your computer anyway.
Problem solved. No complicated troubleshooting, and you didn't even have to send anyone $10 via PayPal.
>>54968622
The solution to a sinking ship isn't to make the boat bigger.
Did you try upgrading to 32 GiB RAM?
>>54968224
>>54968464
>>54968622
>>54968675
Is this the extent of the quality of /g/?
>>54968731
I called a friend of mine who's a proffessional. I'll inform you when he figures your problem out.
>>54968731
Surely non, Anon. Take >>54968760 for example.
I think people just might resent /g/ being treated as your technical support. Even if the request is an earnest one.
Maybe >>>/wsr/ might be more suitable... though I dunno how much luck you'll have with getting tech help there.
>>54968090
1. install literally any OS other than windows 10
you can keep the $10 anon, first one's free
>>54968800
It's a pretty complex issue and I've really honestly done as much research as I can and I'm still stumped. Only after hours and hours did I come here, and I went to /sqt/ first and got no replies at all.
>>54968090
find out which process is taking it and kill that process(end process)
>>54968849
This was the first thing I tried, but it's non paged so nothing in the task manager actually tells you what program is causing the leak or utilizing all that memory.
That's why I have poolmonitor up, but it only tells you the system tags given to the programs causing the leak, and which is where I am stuck.
>>54968816
This is 8.1
>>54968760
If this is serious, thank you.
>>54968090
do you expect some black magic to come from that screenshot?
isolate the issue, see what is causing that, most likely a driver
gl
>>54968090
I had this issue when I installed windows 10 at first. It happened to be my network drivers I had to download a special update for them because it downloaded the wrong drivers for whatever reason automatically.
>>54968897
I've narrowed it down to knowing what the system tags are (ismc, nr22, py28 etc) but that's where I've stopped figuring it out
>>54968877
Find the process in Resource Monitor.
Your friend,
Pajeet
>>54968877
You chose windows. You deserve this
>>54969395
You're an idiot who doesn't know what a nonpaged pool is. Stop trying to help this guy and meme somewhere else.
>>54969473
Anon, the key here is to *never* acknowledge shitposters or trolls. Just ignore them. The only way for them to go away is to starve them of dopamine so that they either leave to go somewhere else, or change their tune because ostracism is painful for them.
>>54968731
who the fuck do you want us to be, geek squad?
fuck off kiddo
honestly it's disgustingly stupid to try and trouble shoot winshit problems, if they're so fucking rich why do they have any bugs at all? why do they need 3rd party browsers, 3rd party video players, 3rd party drivers, 3rd party fucking everything?
fuck off and figure it out yourself or stop using a cuck OS
>>54968090
Do you happen to run a seedbox/web server?
>>54969720
not from this PC, no
So turns out its none of those, it is definitely "Thre". Still don't know what to do from here
>>54970793
Press control-alt-delete, start the task manager; in the Processes tab, enable the Threads and Handles columns. Show all processes. Post screenshot.
>>54968419
Disable all the startup processes and enable them one by one until you find the culprit.
You've likely installed something that is doing this you idiot.
Turn off super fetch and set the memory page to half of your ram.
>>54970793
The tag Thre means thread objects and handles.
Check recently installed programs, disable them from being able to launch (rename exes or uninstall) and troubleshoot.
>>54970867
Sorry about the delay I was in a WoW dungeon
>>54970901
I'll check the startup programs and see what is there that wasn't before
>>54971104
Your Steam is broken. Shoot it down, watch the problems go away.
I don't know whether this is a general problem with steam, or a problem that somehow only happens on your end. Reinstalling it might help. Has the problem started recently? If so, it might go away with the next steam update.
>>54971104
Wow-64.exe
>>54971146
Holy shit, that was it. I terminated it and all the nonpaged memory freed up instantly.
I'll try reinstalling it, and yeah it was recent, last 3 days. Haven't bought any new games on it either.
>>54971191
You really hadn't tried restarting steam?
>>54971191
Odds are the problem will get fixed in a steam update next week, then.
>>54971206
Well, it restarted everytime I rebooted the computer. I honestly didn't think it would be that given I've had it since I built this PC a year ago. Plus my IT specialist friend was talking to me through steam chat so I wasn't really itching to test that theory
>>54971104
did u get any sweet l00t
>>54971231
>>54971231
You're IT SPESHULUST friend sucks then.
>>54971232
no just more exp senpai, leveling a warrior
>>54971253
yeah i started to assume that when he told me to change the same value in the registry a third time within 3 hours like he was just reading ideas off google and forgetting what he already told me
>>54971191
SO when you plan on sending him that $10 thru paypal?
I aint even from this board, just saw it on the 4chinz mainpage, but gonna stick around to see this OP be a faggot and totally not send the $10 for a problem an anon fixed in less than 4 hours
>>54971342
well he didn't post an email anywhere in his posts, I'd like to but i dont really have a way to verify he's him
>>54971372
Keep your money, OP. Helping people is its own reward. And besides, this was an interesting problem to investigate.
install gentoo
>>54971385
Thanks man I really appreciate.
Do you like anime? I run an anime plex server with a 100mbs up/down with like 255 shows and 120 movies or so. If you like, I can invite you. Least I can do.
>>54971146
Hey how did you figure how that the problem was steam?
>>54968090
try installing gentoo
>>54971406
>>54971508
the problem's already fixed, memelords
>>54971435
Nah. Just seed, for great justice.
>>54971471
By the number of open handles. >>54970793 indicates that the nonpaged pool is getting wasted on tons of (presumably dead) threads; and the reason for threads to stick around after being dead is when some program still has a handle to them. So the program with the fuckhuge amount of open handles was the culprit.
>>54968090
Does it happen in safe mode and/or safe mode with networking
Does it happen under a new user account
>>54971542
So steam is handling dead threads which are in the non paged pool?
>>54971385
my bet is on the embedded chrom* browser being the culprit
hey op, stop using steam to browse profiles/websites (use it to start games only, dont even follow links on chat) and see if it still happens, i bet your $10 it wont (you must post receipt with $10 donation to a charity of your choice if i win :^) )
>>54968800
>people just might resent /g/ being treated as your technical support
But anon...
>>54971737
>using the smiley with a carat nose
