Windows 8 taking over 6 GB ram on startup

[_Atif_]

My windows 8 is hogging too much RAM and I have no idea what is using it.
It is using over 6 GB ram but total ram used by all processes is not even 1 GB. The highest by any process is 49 MB
What is using this ram? Anyone else had this issue?

 

[aasimenator]

Go into details tab on the task manager & sort by memory to see the resource with the highest consumption...

also try starting the task manager as administrator. It seems that you have some disk activity, may be a antivirus scan running in background on start up.

 

[manu1991]

maybe its just windows super fetch? does your computer actually feel slow?

try this if you want detailed breakup of your RAM usage:

RAMMap

 

[_Atif_]

maybe its just windows super fetch? does your computer actually feel slow?

try this if you want detailed breakup of your RAM usage:

RAMMap

The system is fast. Its been only 10 days since I installed windows 8. I just want to ensure that its the OS and not some malicious program.

Following screenshot is from the RAMMap. Tell me what you can make out of the screenshot.

 

[aasimenator]

[FONT=Arial, Liberation Sans, DejaVu Sans, sans-serif]you can add the column "NP Pool" to the "Details" tab on Task Manager you don't need 3rd party apps for such basic info's.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Liberation Sans, DejaVu Sans, sans-serif]Add the column NP Pool on your Task Manager it will show you the process that is using 5 GB Memory[/FONT]

 

[booo]

non paged pool, means some kernel driver is leaking memory.

either you can figure out which one and disable it or just reinstall windows.

 

[manu1991]

I have very little knowledge of it but AFAIK, non paged pool is related to drivers, the value seems very high. Check if it is a memory leak/faulty driver:
Troubleshooting Pool Leaks Part 2 ? Poolmon - Ntdebugging Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

 

[ayanavish]

This thread should help you: windows 7 - Huge memory usage in Nonpaged Pool - Super User

 

[6pack]

You will need to add Np pool column to task manager under Details tab in windows 8 task manager in order to view the memory leaking application. Search for newer windows 8 versions of the application or drivers or uninstall it.

 

[_Atif_]

I found the culprit, it was the Intellimemory software which was installed automatically by the Samsung software update. It caches HDD on RAM for faster execution of applications.
I will uninstall it and compare whether the system performance is better with it or without it.

 

[jayson]

Nice! just wondering what happened after uninstallation of Intellimemory.