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I apparently have a massive memory like on my upgraded Windows 10 system. I have seen "System" (PID 4) slowly use more and more RAM. My "NT Kernal & System" has already used more than 5GB of RAM. Attached I have my poolmon data, however I do not know how to interpret it.

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Stephen Cioffi
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It usually asociated with drivers. Try typing this in Command Prompt(run as administrator),

cd drivers

then

findstr /s [tag name] *.*

Then wait for a few sec. it will show the name of the *.sys file(s). find it in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers . Check its properties. You'll get info about what driver associated with this file. Update that driver

Hope it helps, cos I got the same problem. Sorry for my bad English.

Ihya R. Azzam
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  • Thank you for your response. I have already tried this and just tried it again except every time I do findstr in the drivers folder, it runs forever and does not stop. – Stephen Cioffi Aug 12 '15 at 19:40
  • Don't worry about it. There is nothing in the poolmon output that indicates excessive pool usage. – Jamie Hanrahan Sep 28 '15 at 16:09
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I have seen "System" (PID 4) slowly use more and more RAM. My "NT Kernal & System" has already used more than 5GB of RAM.

This is a new feature of Windows 10 called Memory Compression. Instead of paging data out of the RAM to the pagefile, Windows compresses them and store it inside the system process.

You have a lot of other software that uses a lot of RAM.

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