Not enough memory and programs crash. How to set memory management correctly?
Not enough memory and programs crash. How to set memory management correctly?
The laptop frequently experiences crashes or malfunctions due to insufficient RAM. Error notifications often appear, indicating a lack of available memory. Programs may stop functioning properly, and the display can become unresponsive for varying durations. Some areas may appear blank or show incomplete content. One or more drivers seem to disappear unexpectedly. The user has 16/14GB of RAM installed and previously used an Acer Aspire E with 8GB, which did not cause issues despite lower capacity. There is uncertainty about whether Windows can be configured to handle memory more efficiently or if a different solution is needed.
The 12gb page file seems a bit excessive.
Does the memory usage decrease after a restart?
It’s possible there’s a memory leak in one of your drivers. It continuously requests more memory instead of returning it once done, and Windows can only provide so much before it stops working.
Windows is quite capable of managing memory, but when a driver is malfunctioning, this issue can arise. It usually identifies programs that are misusing memory, though it isn’t flawless.
Have you checked for an auto update?
https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/produ.../downloads
It begins using less memory and gradually increases until it reaches high usage. How could I locate that driver? Thank you for the link. Yes, I checked the one provided by Lenovo during the included installation. It displayed everything as expected. Now I have fully installed Windows 11 and manually added each driver from the original Lenovo site.
so this is a clean install. And it still happens
figuring out which driver is the cause can take work
You probably need to run poolmon, it shows what is using memory on the system
video shows how to run it,
the top line of description has command you use to identify the tag, I can't copy it here as forums will play with its formating
you need to download the windows Driver toolkit -
link
- as it includes poolmon (just click go to site)
You want to find the tag that is using the biggest difference between Allocs & Frees as these are the processes keeping memory and not giving it back. Leaks are caused by software requesting memory and not giving it back when its finished.
Many of the processes are actually parts of windows as you can see the processes that manage memory here, so some will always have a lot. This is normal. You want to look at non Microsoft tags
this is a list of the most common tags -
https://github.com/zodiacon/PoolMonXv2/b...ooltag.txt
I would run program just after boot, to get a baseline for usage and something to compare to when memory usage is massive
screenshots can help. uploading to an image sharing website and show links here for any you want help with.
Yes, that is correct.
Sorry, this appears to be a Microsoft program.
OK. If the system runs smoothly, programs stay active if left open. If I don’t close them or launch additional apps when memory becomes limited (so RAM usage surpasses hardware capacity), Windows would handle it by using the page.sys file instead of actual RAM. In short, could the issue stem from opening many programs—like Firefox tabs—or from using the same software repeatedly on my Acer Aspire E 15 and previous computers? I haven’t encountered this before. It might relate to the Lenovo IdeaPad 3 17ABA7 or its BIOS/UEFI updates.
OK, thank you very much!
The site provides poolmon, which is essential for detecting memory leaks.