Excessive memory consumption from applications (Windows 10)
Excessive memory consumption from applications (Windows 10)
You're experiencing significant system instability with your PC, especially using large amounts of RAM. It seems the machine is gradually consuming more memory over time, leading to crashes or forced restarts after hours of operation. The hardware you have includes an AMD Ryzen 1500x with a stock GTX 1060 graphics card, 6GB of 16GB DDR4 memory, and a Gigabyte B350 SSD running OS 3. To identify the memory leak, consider checking for background processes, updating drivers, or using memory profiling tools. Let me know if you'd like guidance on troubleshooting steps.
It began unexpectedly a short while ago and doesn’t appear related to the software you use. You’ve observed that the memory consumption of your PC’s services keeps rising as it runs longer before it stops working.
It's surprising how much memory these processes consume. I reviewed my own list and found that most of it doesn’t use even 1mb. To figure this out, I asked if you turn off your system completely, stay in standby, or hibernate. The next step would be to shut down the services one by one, starting with the most resource-heavy, to identify what’s using the most and how. If something isn’t essential, I’d disable it through the services menu or set it to manual, prompting you when it should start.
I usually keep my system on, but a service problem causes it to freeze. I’m compelled to restart it. Memory consumption keeps rising whether I run any apps or not. I’ve attempted to update Windows and turned off the SysMain Superfetch service.