Over 7 hours ram usage hits 100% - sometimes randomly shows artifacts

Hi all,

I've spent some time looking around for a solution but I have been unable to find anything that helps. I'm hoping someone here can give me a clue as to what my issue/problem could be.

I'm finding that I can leave my PC on for no more than 8 hours. After 8 hours ram usage spikes to 100% applications start to crash and I then am forced to reboot the system.

I thought it could be multiple things - I replaced the SSD with a brand new one. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling video drivers, I removed the latest applications I have installed, I have looked at process explorer and RAMMap and i'm not finding any applications that are using more memory than they actually should. These applications all look good..

I grabbed a data set from Performance Monitor to show what I have been seeing and it doesn't look normal to me. Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue could be? Could it be a Windows patch or bad ram at this point? Is my video card is bad shape?

Hi rich,

Thanks for the reply! I scanned the system with memtest.for over 26 hours and and no errors showed up. Everything came back clean. Malware bytes shows clean and antivirus also shows clean. Have any ideas? Could it be a software issue or video card problem?

The problem happens over time.. Nothing looks abnormal to using more memory than expected...

Here's some more pictures to help illustrate.

Post a screenshot of the process list showing and sorted by "Working Set (Memory)". You will have to add this column from the View menu. The "Memory (Private Working Set)" column shown does not fully account for process usage.

The Nonpaged kernel usage is high but not nearly high enough to account for what is observed.

After one evening this is what it looks like..As you can see physical memory is at 54% now everything else looks the same for the most part

I believe the Nonpaged kernel is higher because "RAPID Mode" is enabled on my Samsung EVO 840 SSD. (http://www.samsung.com/hu/business-i...pid_Mode-0.pdf)

Any ideas?

I have had a similar issue. Used to run with 8Gb of RAM, and after only few hours running Win7 64-bit RAM would keep maxing out. But I didn't poke around long, assumed it was faulty RAM, went bought another 8Gb (4Gbx2 sticks) of the same set of RAM (good sale at the time) and tried that out. Ended up with the same issue, few hours in RAM would max even with 16Gb's. Tried different slots (dual RAM sticks btw), tried different tower (RAM was NOT faulty). At that point I automatically assumed corruption. Got a different .ISO (assumed the one I previously used must've been a faulty boot), not a problem since.

Just my experience, perhaps you'll have better luck and safe OS/data from a clean install.

Goodluck.