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andrea_rinaldi
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Feb 07, 2025
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RAM Memory Leak Issue

Good morning. I am experiencing issues with an updated installation of Windows Server 2016. The task manager reports 8.1GB of memory used (which normally tends to grow indefinitely), and I can't...
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  • Karl-WE's avatar
    Karl-WE
    Feb 09, 2025

    Please mind that WS 2016 is out of mainstream support. 

    It's not easy to get reliable support here. If your licensing allows, in-place upgrade to 2022 or 2025, then it's easier to open a support ticket. 

     

    Also try to use the clean boot procedere with msconfig to check if it's really the cause of the OS. 

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L_Youtell_974
Iron Contributor
Feb 09, 2025

Hello i can't really help but i can give you some tips. First, your computer use 8 Go and what you see on the RAMMAP is exactly what you use. You can see on RAMMAP paged pool Memory Pools - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn use 3.8 Go of RAM, this is where you extra Go go. Unfortunately the page pool is no easy to debug with only task manager of RAMMAP. 


This is a link who should help The paged pool on windows has risen steadily. - Microsoft Q&A.  You will have to use poolmon or Windows Performance Recorder.

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