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Seeming memory leak in Win 11
Windows usually doesn't lose RAM can you post in use, available, committed , cached and paged pool numbers? The shutdown issue is a different problem.
- Fork90Mar 04, 2026Copper Contributor
It took a while for the issue to resurface for me to get some hard numbers. Around 9:25PM I woke my computer from sleep mode and a few minutes after waking it I realized my ram usage was rising linearly in task manager. I can't remember for certain if this has always started after a wakeup, but I will try to keep track from now on. Over the past hour I have went from 22gb in use to 139gb in use. During this time the only process showing over 1GB of memory in use was firefox at 1.8gb roughly and every process together accounted for right at 5033MB.
Here is a table of the requested stats over the past hour. Pardon the rough formatting, tabs apparently vex this forum.In Use Compressed Committed Cached Paged pool Non-paged pool 44 81.5MB 48/202 1.6 21.1 3.8 50.5 78.3MB 55/202 1.9 26.6 4.5 73.9 39.5MB 78/202 2.1 47.1 7.1 103 46.8MB 107/202 2.3 72.3 10.3 109 46.8MB 118/202 6.4 81.6 11.5 141 1.1GB 150/202 14.3 110 15.0 139 1.1GB 148/202 14.3 108 14.8Can you explain how you have eliminated the shutdown being related? I'll admit a 100% correlation does not imply causation, but I'd like to repeat the steps you did to prove this.
Cheers,
Fork - Fork90Mar 03, 2026Copper Contributor
Hello,
Sorry I don't have those number currently, but the next time I encounter the issue I will be sure to record that as well as a few other things so we have a clean picture.
In the meantime, you sound very certain in your dismissal of the shutdown issue being related despite a 100% correlation. I'm completely aware correlation does not imply causation, however can you explain when you had physical access to my machine and what experiments you ran to conclude this? I would like to independently verify your results.Cheers,
Fork