Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my system has been consuming RAM excessively
I've been reading a bit and determined it's likely a driver leaking memory. So I got myself the Windows Driver Kit and tracked memory usage with poolmon:
However, I don't really know how to proceed from here. Is the item tagged "smNp" the culprit in this issue? How do I go from there to actually identifying the driver?
I tried some stuff like "C:\Windows\System32\drivers>findstr /s smnp ." but it returned no results. I also took a look at the pooltag.txt file and this is the description I found for it:
So yeah, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Answer
By going into services.msc (via Win+R) and disabling Superfetch completely solves this. I am not sure if Superfetch is just broken as of now or it's "by design".
In addition, apparently getting rid of the paging file will have the same effect but the above solution is a safer bet.
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