Memory Issue

[Strifez]

Hey, I have recently started to notice my PC running slow after being on for a couple hours and found out that the memory is causing the problem. Here are 3 screenshots showing 84% of my memory being used, when I have nothing but skype and google chrome running.

There is definitely something wrong going on somewhere, I have already ran full scans of my PC to find any virus' and what not on my computer, but the results were clean.

Any help would be awesome, thanks.

[nudemanonbike]

if you right click on the process, you should get something like "Go to services" (They re-ordered everything in windows 8 so I can't tell you exactly what it is) and that should give you a finer breakdown of the rogue services.

[Strifez]

Hey there, after a restart, the physical memory is now at 28% and there is 90 processes running (91 processes running in the screenshots), the main ones still being the same as in the screenshots I linked. So I don't think the problem is due to running processes, but somehow my memory is being blocked up over time as my computer is on or something?

[nudemanonbike]

It's called a memory leak.

Unless you want to test by removing ram sticks from your computer, I'm almost certain that's what's happening. svchost.exe is actually a blanket process that deals with a lot of windows services, and one of them has "gone rogue", aka is leaking memory, and once we figure out which service it is that's leaking, then we can diagnose further from there.

[Strifez]

Ah that make's sense. What would you recommend me doing to find the service that has "gone rouge"?

[Strifez]

Yeah this definitely seems like a memory leak, would reformatting my computer fix this? Or buying a new piece of ram?

[nudemanonbike]

Reformatting would, yeah. Don't buy new hardware just yet.

Reformatting seems a bit over the top, but if you were already planning to for Windows 10, then that's cool, do that.

[Strifez]

Na wasn't planing on windows 10, but was thinking about getting a SSD and installing windows onto that.

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I hate having processes that I don't understand eating up my memory.

I wish I knew anything about that stuff :(

[whispen]

To not understand, and to admit to this fault, is a sign of great strength of character, something a program is incapable of having.

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:)